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Hypo stories

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aymes

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Funniest/strangest/worst hypo moment....

It seems about everyone with diabetes has at least one funny, scary or bizarre hypo related story so this seems a good place to share them.

Mine are pretty lame compared to some I've heard but my worst was probably after my university finals. Everyone had been drinking a lot (I'm not a big drinker) so when I started acting odd no one really noticed until I was very low. My friends eventually thought they should take me home and get me to have some sugar. I can't remember any of this but apparently I took offense at being told what to do and punched my friend, now I'm quite tiny and he's a big guy so very unexpected, he went around with a black eye for days, I was so embarrassed that I could act so out of character.

My only other one was fairly recently. A new housemate had just moved in and had apparently had too much to drink... I got up in the middle of the night with a hypo, went downstairs and found him just standing there, in only his underwear, swaying and humming to himself. A very bizarre moment!

I'm sure you all must have some good stories to share????

( by the way I'm not making light of any bad things, like hitting friends, we may have done!)
 
i have a funny story about being diagnosed.

I was in afghanistan on a summer tour so the weather was beyond hot, especially for someone who gets a sun tan from the fridge door light lol.
Anyway i was 6 months done with a 7 month tour when my uncontrollable thirst and constant toilet needs got beyond a joke and they found out i was type 1. The funny bit was when the army doctor in afghasn asked in all seriousness "did the weight loss and thurst not make you think you mite have diabeties??"
I replyed "NO its the desert i thought it was the bloody sun"

he stayed away after that.
 
I've had it for 14 months and never had a hypo. Lowest I've been was 3.3 and I felt fine. Is this unusual?
 
Ikey the tinker said:
I've had it for 14 months and never had a hypo. Lowest I've been was 3.3 and I felt fine. Is this unusual?
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3.3 would usually be called a hypo, even if it didn't feel like one, I think most people would usually not feel a hypo until they got around there., although of course everyone is different.

As for whether it's normal, probably very lucky but I don't think there is a normal. Depends on how you're treated, insulin and, to a slightly lesser extent tablets, makes hypo far more likely than if treated with diet/exercise.
 
OMG! I have so many stories - two are similar - I sleep naked and twice I have exposed all to ambulance people after they have had to revive me after a night hypo - once after a hen night - and sharing a room with a friend and once in my flat - my very fabulous neighbour called an ambulance after hearing me shout out. I figure they have seen it all and you just have to get over it! You just don't care when you are off your chops - embarrassing when you start coming round though! Next one was when I was doing an aqua class - i can't remember finishing it - I woke up in a room in the sports centre with two ambulance men in my swimmming costunme! Apparently i was swimmimg in the pool and they were clearing it for scuba - I wouldn't get out - they had to pull me out (no mean feat as i am not a lighweight!) and I lost conciousness - the staff thought I was on drugs or something! They found my locker key and went through my bag and found my insulin which made them realise I was diabetic. A shot of glucagon and I came round. I took the centre staff a huge bunch of flowrer, some chocs and a card to say thank-you! I didn't have on-body id then but have now!
The last one was when I was home one Christmas - and my dad and my brother were hearing lots of noise from the kitchen in the middle of the night - they came down and found me getting all sorts of strange stuff out of the fridge and talking gibbereish. They realsed i was low and gave me milk and sugar - not too bad you say - no but I was completely starkers - aged 30. Horror of horrors - I remember nothng about it and have tried to forget it ever since! Haven't hit anyone yet - but have got extremely stroppy before now!😉
 
I volunteer for St John ambulance. A number of years ago we had a new first aid unit delivered to our division.
On the first night we used it I went (mildly) hypo whilst walking around the site we were covering and had to return to the first aid unit in order to teat myself (with a bar of chocolate or something), so then had the dubious honour of being the first casualty treated in our new unit.
 
new one to add from last night... Think I must have been hypoing in the night. Woke up this morning with sky high bg and found I had changed my clothes in the night, totally trashed my room emptying all my clothes out my wardrobe and was sleeping fully dressed as if I was about to go out, I can remember nothing!

I was also reminded recently of another one. My housemate came back to find me with all the food out the cupboard, putting it all in the bin. When she asked me what I was doing ( this was in 2007) I told her all the food was out of date so I was sorting it out. I was throwing away stuff with a date as late as 2010 so I've no idea when I thought it was!
 
rational explantions for new symptoms

Like Jenks, I have a story about misinterupting sympoms when first diagnosed. I was knacked due to working 10 days on, 4 off - 10 days of 10 hour days, guiding on seal & dolphin swimming tour boats on New Zealand summer. Uniform included fleece shorts - better than trousers, as salt marks looked odd on trouser knees, but a bit warm around the crotch, so it ignored mild itching. Plus, a bit of urgency to pee on waking was explained by sleeping in a garden shed and needing to negotiate entry to house in a decent state of dress to avoid startling landlady. Days off were spent driving and hiking all over South Island. So, not surprising I was a bit tired.

Only time my partner tried to get some Hypostop down me at night, he couldn't understand why I was being "less than co-operative" - so he tasted it and understood! I've never usued it since. Anyway, we always have tons of High 5 etc energy gels, due to freebies given at adventure races, which taste much nicer. But usually I just grab a couple of wrapped boiled sweets off windowsill, without even waking him.
 
I had a slight hypo not long after I was diagnosed. I felt a bit odd so tested blood sugars, and found I was about 3.9. I asked colleague to go get me a can of coke and a bag of crisps. He came back with diet coke.

Luckily for me someone else in the office realised what was happening and got me the full sugar version and explined to my colleague I was experiencing a hypo, and unless I specify diet coke, getthe full sugar version!

It has been a learning curve for all of us, and I have been allowed to place posters and leaflets round the building for Diabetes UK. so more people are aware.
 
i've not had any major hypo scares as my awareness is still quite high (going down though eek) but 3 days before my wedding and my last day at work i starting having a hypo in a traffic jam, reached over for some glucose tablets int the glove compartment. as i put one in my mouth i realised that the new air freshner (really strong so we threw it in there) had seeped into the packet! i ahd a mouth full of air freshner, didnt want to swallow in case it poisoned me and didnt want to spit it out everywhere. Thankfully the traffic was moving slowly and i managed to get home still with this tablet in my mouth, rapidly dissolving. got in and ran to the sink and spat it out! then ran upstairs and started trashing my room trying to find some other tablets. mum came in and i collapsed in sobs (i was a bit emotional because of the wedding etc) on the landing, choking on the little bits of glucose tablets as i was trying to breathe! took me ages to calm down as i was crying so much i was inhlaing more and more bits of tablet grr!
 
before my son was diagnosed he was keep talking about funny shadows in his bedroom we really thought he had supernatural gift after a while did not wanted tosleep in his bedroom start urinating a lot googgle the simptoms the we ask the gp to test for diabetes [my gp was on holiday] surgery lost the urine test and after 5 days we werein hospital and graham was in ketoacidosis coma more on theother side with a high risk that he could not make it my instinct was wright and the supply gp was wrong
 
I tend to get very aggressive when I am going hypo and am adament that I am fine, shouting and pushing people away who know what is going on and want to help me. Anyone else become like this????
I have on more than one occasion been at work and gone low, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing hysterically and on one occasion shouting at my boss that I was fine and she should leave me alone. The people in my office are all used to me and can tell even before I do.
My boyfriend gets the full brunt of it though as he often tries to feed me sugar or chocolate, my response: to try and bite his fingers off to stop him.
My symptoms have changed over the last year (which apparently happens) so it was harder for a while to notice.
The worse hypo i had when the paramedics had to come, was when my parents couldnt wake me. I do not remember anything other than coming round and wondering why there were green people (paramedics) in my bedroom and a needle in my arm. I hate needles and was not very happy!
 
I haven't had any funny hypos... 😎

My worst one was the last time I was drunk, and I have decided to go t-total. It just isn't worth it. I didn't even recognise at the time that I was having a hypo, so I didn't treat it, just crashed and went to sleep. Before I went to sleep though I sat for ages rocking back and forward on my bed, tearing holes in the bra I'd just taken off. Lord knows why I felt like shredding my bra was a good idea, but I did...
 
Does anyone have a funny hypo story, just thought I would start a thread for some laughs. (Not always funny of course) Being a Diabetic is hard work sometimes but there is always a funny hypo story along the line, or an interesting one at least 🙄
 
I posted this on another forum a few days ago.
No, not me, but I went shopping in Asda yesterday and came a cross a woman lying on the floor at the back of the shop. There was an Asda assistant tending to the woman, standing over her with a bottle of Lucozade. So I can only presume she had a hypo :(
I actually felt quite upset :( and it frightened me into thinking I never want to go there 😱
So a bit of a kick up the backside for me, to take better care of myself and watch my diet :D
Not that the lady in question wasn't taking care of herself.
The lady and her friend where taken to place of safety in a wheelchair.
Well done Asda.
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not a funny story but went down the pub with friends had a lot of cola to drink and ended up getting very agressive in fact so much so the police were called and i got arested i cant remember a lot of this Im told by friends it took four policemen to hold me down and when I got to the police station i was later told i was sick everywhere I ended up in hospital massive hypo I LEARNT MY LESSON FROM THIS
 
Wandering through the North Laine here in Brighton a few months back. Suddenly felt absolutely smashed. Ended up thinking it was three in the afternoon. Being slaughtered that early is a good effort even by my standards! Tested and found I was hypo.

Tom
 
There was one time that I throw ALL my food out, I was convinced that the year was two years later and so it was all up to date. My mum just happened to call while I was doing it and after a lot of persuading convinced me to test my blood.

There was also the time when I managed to 'thump' my friend who was trying to help me while hypo. Not funny I know but it wasn't long after diagnosis and I was this tiny little thing, and I'm not the type of person to hit anyone ever, so it did really take him by surprise. I ended up with a big bruise on my fist and he had not a mark on him, so apparently I don't know how to hit properly!

I'm sure there are more stories, I'll post when I remember them!
 
I had one kind of like your food one, where I was going around the house making sure all the clocks were correct as if I had OCD!! I remember crying uncontrollably because my montitor at the time didnt have the date and time on it and didnt have the 14 day averages etc like the optium one I was used to! My other half was running around the house with me trying to talk me into drinking the lucozade he had but I think I ended up drinking it as he agreed to sort the clocks and draw on the meter with a sharpie so I knew what all the displays meant!! How random! 😱
 
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