[zookeeper671]

Hello everyone~

I'm pretty new to diabetes, don't know anyone personally who has it (haven't attended any support groups due to my hectic schedule), and don't really get a chance to talk about it, so here I am.

Last night and this afternoon I experienced some severe hypos. I've been hypo in the past, but never like this, and it scared me. The hypo I experienced last night rendered me unconscious/unresponsive. Thanks to my dog for having to go to the bathroom at 2am and waking up my boyfriend, he noticed my condition and took care of the matter via glucagon injection. Once I awakened, he forced me to eat and stayed up with me for a few hours to make sure I was ok.

Surprisingly, that 2am hypo (which I have little memory of) didn't scare me as bad as the one I had the following afternoon. I was sitting in class, became suddenly very hot, then began to sweat so profusely that I became soaked. It happened so fast and I became so disconnected with my surroundings that I didn't realize what was happening until it was too late. All I could do was just sit there and stare into space. Thankfully my instructor, who is also a paramedic, realized I was in trouble. He poured glucose gel into my mouth and shortly later tested my bg level (was 51mg/dl). Is 51 on a reading really that low to cause such symptoms?

I've read that stress can cause a rise in bg level, but my main question is whether it can do the reverse? I've been under an incredible amount of stress lately, an exhausing work load (yet have been able to maintain decent levels), and throughout have been following doctors orders faithfully.

I'm so embarrassed about what happened this afternoon in class. I feel I should have been able to prevent the situation from getting that bad, yet when it happened I seemed to have lost control of my mind and body.

There really isn't any reason for this to have happened, and according to my doctor, it's just a part of the disease that I need to "get used to and learn to manage." That's a pretty scary statement to someone newly diagnosed.

Other than a couple of questions, there really isn't a point to this post other than a means for me to gab with others who might understand.

Thanks for listening,
Angie
(Humalog, HumulinU)