old diabolic

[tamaso]

Hi, tamaso here , just joined and have been type 1 for 40 years. Im now 44 and still feel 16 apart from the odd elbow pain. Having diabetes this long its just a scratch its not as bad as others may think as all i do is my jag 4 times a day and dont eat rubbish. I found that once i knew what foods suited to my taste and sugar levels then its to me dont over think diabetes, once you find foods that suit it can be boring eating same things but learn how to make several different meals with the foods that suit. Im diabetic only at mealtimes and jag times the rest of the time im just tamaso. one question for older diabolics, Have your hypo symptoms changed over the years? I started with im shakey but now my eyes go and cant see properly. thats when its swedger time yee-haa.

 

[Robin]

Hello, Tamaso, and welcome to the forum.
I find that if I'm just below 4.0, I get shaky, irritable, etc, but if I'm dropping fast, and don’t catch the hypo til I’m below 3.5, that’s where I get visual disturbances,( I get blank patches coming and going, that look weirdly green round the edges). I wonder if, over the years, your body has got used to lower levels, and you don’t get that first reaction, so don’t notice your hypos til you’ve got to a lower figure.

 

[trophywench]

Hi Tamaso - got 6 extra years under my belt than you (well that's wrong, unless you're a upside down the pancreas is above the belt) and I hadn't used to know if I was plummeting or gently sliding - whereas now I definitely do, plus some symptoms I used to get when I was very first diagnosed have returned. That was seriously weird - at first thinking it was weird anyway, where had that symptom suddenly sprung from? Well never mind, it was weird so I tested my Bg anyway so it doesn't matter. Then the next time it happened it hit me - last time I had that was in hospital as a newly diagnosed person. I'd often wondered at the time if that was a hypo but not in a position to ask anyone to test my pee at the time since I wasn't aware of how or what they did with it!

 

[tamaso]

Hi, tamaso here , just joined and have been type 1 for 40 years. Im now 44 and still feel 16 apart from the odd elbow pain. Having diabetes this long its just a scratch its not as bad as others may think as all i do is my jag 4 times a day and dont eat rubbish. I found that once i knew what foods suited to my taste and sugar levels then its to me dont over think diabetes, once you find foods that suit it can be boring eating same things but learn how to make several different meals with the foods that suit. Im diabetic only at mealtimes and jag times the rest of the time im just tamaso. one question for older diabolics, Have your hypo symptoms changed over the years? I started with im shakey but now my eyes go and cant see properly. thats when its swedger time yee-haa.

Hello, Tamaso, and welcome to the forum.
I find that if I'm just below 4.0, I get shaky, irritable, etc, but if I'm dropping fast, and don’t catch the hypo til I’m below 3.5, that’s where I get visual disturbances,( I get blank patches coming and going, that look weirdly green round the edges). I wonder if, over the years, your body has got used to lower levels, and you don’t get that first reaction, so don’t notice your hypos til you’ve got to a lower figure.

 

[tamaso]

Hi Robin, you could be right as iv tested my blood when feeling a bit strange but not hypo symptoms and its 1.7 and im like no way how am i still able to operate. The bad thing i have lately is not waking up during night if i have a wee hypo, i always woke up rolled over 2-3 glugs lucozade and back to sleep. Im waking up in the morning now freezing cold and damp from sweat so im trying my best not to hypo during night. even making sure my bloods are good before i sleep.

 

[tamaso]

Hi Tamaso - got 6 extra years under my belt than you (well that's wrong, unless you're a upside down the pancreas is above the belt) and I hadn't used to know if I was plummeting or gently sliding - whereas now I definitely do, plus some symptoms I used to get when I was very first diagnosed have returned. That was seriously weird - at first thinking it was weird anyway, where had that symptom suddenly sprung from? Well never mind, it was weird so I tested my Bg anyway so it doesn't matter. Then the next time it happened it hit me - last time I had that was in hospital as a newly diagnosed person. I'd often wondered at the time if that was a hypo but not in a position to ask anyone to test my pee at the time since I wasn't aware of how or what they did with it!

 

[tamaso]

Hi trophywench, I remember the pee test with test tubes acitest tablets and watching this thing go off like a volcano then a colour would appear. How things have changed. I felt in those days you are meant to be very strict and could eat nothing but digestives and milk. I remember a hospital appointment at about 9 years old i told the doctor that my mum would put a wee bit jam on my toast now and then and i thought she was getting arrested going by the docs reaction. we laugh about that to this day.

 

[nonethewiser]

Hi tamaso

Just 2 years behind you, still feel a hypo coming on and never been in hospital because of one, nor needed a ambulance for that matter.

Luck of the draw perhaps but have had a few close calls, no secret but do try and keep levels above 5 wherever possible.

 

[trophywench]

Oooh I met a DSN like that in 1998 or 9 ! (Actually rendered me speechless - quite a major feat really to do that I realise, but still to this day actually firmly believe she must have been a stupid cow. 😱)

 

[SB2015]

Hi @tamaso , I am a bit of a newbie in the company here. Just 11 years since dx and hypo symptoms unchanged so far. Like @Robin my vision goes blurry with a steep descent.

 

[trophywench]

My eyesight effects are like when you're blinded with a sudden reflection of a very bright light and you 'see spots' even with your eyes closed.