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The other day I decided to go for a long bike ride (off work this week and decided 10 miles would do) anyway on the way back I came across a friend whom I worked with years ago and occasionally went out with for a few beers. As I was nearing the end of my bike ride I had gathered up a sweat and was probably reddish in the face (need to get fitter) and my friend said that I looked whacked out and wondered if I was having a hypo and did I not need my insulin!😱 I politely said I was fine and if I was hypo the last thing I needed was insulin, after explaining we had a good laugh about it. Pleased that I never needed his assistance when I worked/socialised with him, I have visions of him sticking a insulin pen in my arm. but then I never did say to him what he should do in the event of me going hypo so cannot fault his misconception. Toby.
 
katie said:
Isn't that about the only thing they got right in that film? 😉
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My recollection of the film - spoiler alert if you have not seen it - is that Ms Foster's daughter is in danger of going into a diabetic coma after not having her insulin for one evening. She then has to sneak out the room to get her insulin from the fridge in the kitchen to stop the coma. I guess it could have been a DKA coma but I think given the speed it came on I thought it was meant to be a hypo. That said it is some time since I watched it so I may remember it wrong 😱

Ah reading a plot summary maybe it was a glucose syringe in the fridge. But then why not have some snacks in the room and if the daughter needed a glucose injection how come she was in a state to go looking for it in the kitchen?
 
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The other day I decided to go for a long bike ride (off work this week and decided 10 miles would do) anyway on the way back I came across a friend whom I worked with years ago and occasionally went out with for a few beers. As I was nearing the end of my bike ride I had gathered up a sweat and was probably reddish in the face (need to get fitter) and my friend said that I looked whacked out and wondered if I was having a hypo and did I not need my insulin!😱 I politely said I was fine and if I was hypo the last thing I needed was insulin, after explaining we had a good laugh about it. Pleased that I never needed his assistance when I worked/socialised with him, I have visions of him sticking a insulin pen in my arm. but then I never did say to him what he should do in the event of me going hypo so cannot fault his misconception. Toby.
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Toby, i've been in that situation so many times (not the bike riding bit but the friends not knowing what to do). the scariest was when i had a really bad hypo at work a long time ago and i collapsed on the floor, i could barely pull myself together but as soon as i heard someone say "she needs to take her insulin, i'll go and get it" i started making a lot of noise to stop them.

i'm afraid its a very common answer from people who just don't know anything about it. I always figure its not their fault for not knowing and just explain that its about balancing sugar and insulin and that i wouldl tell them when i needed one or the other!
 
Funny enough I was going to do a post about Panic Room. Is there really a blood glucose watch? Also i had no idea about a glucose pen. I could not tell if this was science fiction or not. Also she seemed quite lucid despite very nearly going into a coma. She asked for the pen and everything. Having luckily(!) only having a dka I could not speak to anyone. I would have thought a come would make you even more incoherent. I hope I never find out but it did not make much sense to me. Just saying.
 
Frantastic said:
Toby, i've been in that situation so many times (not the bike riding bit but the friends not knowing what to do). the scariest was when i had a really bad hypo at work a long time ago and i collapsed on the floor, i could barely pull myself together but as soon as i heard someone say "she needs to take her insulin, i'll go and get it" i started making a lot of noise to stop them.

i'm afraid its a very common answer from people who just don't know anything about it. I always figure its not their fault for not knowing and just explain that its about balancing sugar and insulin and that i wouldl tell them when i needed one or the other!
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That's a frightening situation to be in and pleased you could tell them otherwise. It is all about ignorance (and I mean this in the kindest sense) about diabetes, most know that we need insulin to survive and therefore assume that when we are unwell and having a hypo that we must need our insulin, it's not their fault and what I know about other conditions I have never come across personally or in my loved ones I could write about on the back of a stamp. I do endeavour now to tell those that work alongside me and new friends what to do in a emergency, but your story does highlight the lack of knowledge and understanding about treating diabetics having a hypoglycemia attack. Toby.
 
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Funny enough I was going to do a post about Panic Room. Is there really a blood glucose watch? Also i had no idea about a glucose pen. I could not tell if this was science fiction or not. Also she seemed quite lucid despite very nearly going into a coma. She asked for the pen and everything. Having luckily(!) only having a dka I could not speak to anyone. I would have thought a come would make you even more incoherent. I hope I never find out but it did not make much sense to me. Just saying.
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Yes, there is a blood glucose monitoring watch - except that it measures sweatiness of skin, which tends to increase with hypoglycaemia, but of course, skin also gets wet in swimming pool / bath / shower and when sweating with exercise, so isn't much use in many of the circumstances when you want to know what your blood glucose is doing. Glucose pen - nearest thing, I reckon, is a glucagon injection.
 
i bought one of those watches for my son and it was useless. I mainly bought it for when he was in bed, (night hypos terrify me) but it kept going off, as copepod said, for a number of other reasons. It quickly got binned!
 
rossoneri said:
My recollection of the film - spoiler alert if you have not seen it - is that Ms Foster's daughter is in danger of going into a diabetic coma after not having her insulin for one evening. She then has to sneak out the room to get her insulin from the fridge in the kitchen to stop the coma. I guess it could have been a DKA coma but I think given the speed it came on I thought it was meant to be a hypo. That said it is some time since I watched it so I may remember it wrong 😱

Ah reading a plot summary maybe it was a glucose syringe in the fridge. But then why not have some snacks in the room and if the daughter needed a glucose injection how come she was in a state to go looking for it in the kitchen?
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I watched it just a couple of weeks ago and that was the one thing they got right :D It was a glycogen injection, they even tossed some insulin pens aside hehe. The reason there were no snacks in the room is because they had only just bought the house and rushed into the room when the crimals popped by (wow, terribe plot hey? 😉).

sas77 said:
Funny enough I was going to do a post about Panic Room. Is there really a blood glucose watch? Also i had no idea about a glucose pen. I could not tell if this was science fiction or not. Also she seemed quite lucid despite very nearly going into a coma. She asked for the pen and everything. Having luckily(!) only having a dka I could not speak to anyone. I would have thought a come would make you even more incoherent. I hope I never find out but it did not make much sense to me. Just saying.
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This is the funniest thing about panic room, it made me LOL. She was wearing a watch which (if I remember rightly) gave her a real-time blood glucose reading. It was below 4 when she first went into the room, so you'd think her mother would be more immediately panicked about that. The bit that made be laugh so was that Kristen Stewart started fitting and then the watch alarmed. So it didn't go off when she was already going low, just as soon as she was showing physical signs.

I don't know anyone who has fitted because of a hypo and Ive never heard of anyone fitting, but then being conscious ?!
 
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