Speaking of hypos

[BriOnH]

When was the last time you needed help coming out of a hypo? It's been over 16 years for me, but they still scare me more than anything.

[DeusXM]

You left out the 'never' option!

[SueM]

Need a never button :)

[JediSkipdogg]

It was just before I start out on the pump when I was in a Sam's store with my family. I recall it now, but at the time I resisted any help and said I was fine like nothing happened. Had I been there along who knows what may have happened.

[jeggeman31]

Well I am with the ohters on the never button. Never had to have anyone help

[Keezheekoni]

Well, my daughter helped me the other day...but I probably didn't *need* her help since I was still coherent. It was nice to have her there though. :)

[valc3]

Another vote for the never button.

[lgvincent]

Brandy used to swat me in the face with an ever so slight extended claw when I was asleep and went into insulin shock. Does that count? April 30th, just after she started her fast breathing, indicating fluid in the lungs, was the last time she warned my my blood sugar was low.

[BriOnH]

Doh!!
Yes, never. I apologize it's not up there. That is quite impressive considering the amount of time I know some of you have had diabetes. Good job!! I cant even fathom that, I think that's why I didn't put it up! Sorry!! (maybe a mod can put it up?)

[snowhite]

Never for me too. I woke up one night and realized mine was low. I keep a meter on my nightstand, checked it, sure enough it was 23. Luckily I keep goodies on the nightstand too so carbs were within reach. I doubt I would have been able to make it into the kitchen for something.

[BriOnH]

I haven't had one since I switched off of NPH. I would probably be a lot more mentally stable if I never had to go through such horrific low episodes.

[am1977]

If you mean like a severe low, where you lose consciousness, then NEVER, but if you mean someone assisted in you in getting sugar back into your body , but still being conscious and coherent, then, probably once or twice in my past...

[poodlebone]

February 2005, at work. I woke up with some paramedics hovering over me. I remember something happened to the light in my office before that. It wasn't the bulbs that were bad but something else in the fixture. So, I had been trying to work in the dark with only the light coming from the hall outside & my computer monitor. I was frazzled from my boss (at another location) constantly calling me about some orders, lack of sleep and no light. I was on the phone with the account my boss was screaming about and that's the last thing I remember until I was being dragged out of my office on a chair by the paramedics. One of them said they couldn't start an IV and gave me an injection, which I assume now was Glucagon but I didn't ask at the time. I was freezing to death, even though it's always super hot at work in the winter. I had to put on my sweater and my coat and it took forever before I was warm, even though the thermostat read in the 80's.

I refused transport to the ER, the paramedics gave the usual lecture about how I had to eat something ASAP, and they left. My co-worker sent someone out to buy me food, a Burger King chicken sandwich and fries. Then she lectured me about how I had to find a new doctor who could help me, and the next day I looked up an endo on my health insurance roster and made an appointment for March. Two months later I was pumping and have not had any awful lows like that since.

Oh, and before that February 2005 incident I had a seizure home alone in january 2005, and in December 2004 my sister recognized that I was having trouble & becoming non-responsive while we were shopping and got me into the car and to the nearest drive-thru. So, three bad episodes in three months. The previous few years were all much of the same.

[Cynfullofhope]

I usually know my lows, although a few times I have dipped to the 40, this morning I woke with norm # had a bowl of cereal., bolused and went to Kohls
and Walmart with children and sister/law and had to have daughter (13) retrieve me a regular coke to bring me up>>>>>

[blue_eyed_devil]

mine was about 2 years ago... when i did a really dumb thing... i was - er - drunk, and did a blood test of like 28mmol... so did a shot of insulin... far to much... didn't go to hospital but i kept slipping in and out of consciousness. my partner was force feeding me because i refused point blank to call an ambulance. scared my partner into realising how serious diabetes really is!

[Georgia]

Never & hope it stays that way.

[Cyborg]

Never, knock on wood.

[jared]

never in my 16 years of the big D.

now on the other hand i have had many HI

[grace girl]

If you mean help in the sense of not being able to help myself, never. If you mean help in the sense that I need food but walking all the way down the hall is more than I can comprehend right now, and I can't figure out what to eat, either, so hubby goes for me....last month.

[sofaraway]

i've been in hospital for 2-3 days on a couple of occasions with IV glucose although i took myself there before i got too low.

but other than that i've always been able to treat myself

[sugarfree76]

don't know if it qualifies, but about 4 years ago, my blood sugar got VERY LOW (I was also sick) and had asked my dad to get some pineapple juice and crackers. Very helpful, seeing he's a diabetic too

[zookpr]

I had to help Lydia out of a low 1 week ago. Trevor has never needed help. He has been low but, he doesn't feel them, and so far they haven't ever slowed him down! Thankfully, we check their blood sugars enough times a day, that we catch the lows!

[Mick]

I'm the same as BrionH--not one since I switched off the rDNA NPH to lantus 6.5 years ago. That stuff was poison and nearly killed me on a dozen occasions.

Michael

[Dewey]

It's been several years for me (in fact, I can't specifically remember the date that the last one happened). I can however, remember incident(s) - one happened as I was leaving the workplace (just sat in my car, stiffly holding a bottle of Humalog & a syringe - EMTs came out but I didn't have to go to the hosp.), and the other incident found me waking up to a heart massage (hurts like he**!!!). :eek:

[Mich]

I have had one such incident. Three days after diagnosis in 1960. The Dr sent my mom home with insulin and instructions on everything except what to do if I got too low. Of course I was still in my honeymoon period then, although they didn't know about such things at that time, so when I got so low I stopped answering her then passed out, I had to be hospitalized for a while. It was a steep learning curve! I came out five days later kind of knowing what it was all about.

The second time it nearly happened was when a friend who was a Dr wrote me a scrip for Humalog, which was hot off the presses. We both had read all of the literature provided by Lilly. It worked fast, as advertised--but instructions weren't very clear at the time that the insulin reaction caused by Humalog came on equally as fast. I was shopping at the time and put off for a couple of minutes downing some corrective glucose, assuming it was similar to a regular insulin reaction. BIG MISTAKE. I had to sit down for a while (eating lifesavers the whole time) sweating and shaking to wait for my sugar to come back up. Whew! Gave new meaning to the word dingy! I now love fast acting insulin because I am no longer tied to an eating schedule.

[BriOnH]

..... and the other incident found me waking up to a heart massage (hurts like he**!!!). :eek:

omg! did your heart stop?

[Desmodus]

Oh man, all your "never"-replies makes me feel really lousy :(
I've woke up to paramedics 3 times so far. And with my parents a lot. One time I woke up while I was talking. That was kind of strange. I didn't know what I was talking about at the time, but I kept it going. Like my mind shut me out and was all "stay back kid, I got this - ok?". :stupid:

[Simons]

I have been type 1, insulin dependent for 63 years and have been so fortunate in having only a couple of hypo's. But my last one is now funny. A week ago I was at my local doctors for gout. I did not realize I was low but I could not keep my eyes open. He finally told me my bs was 44 and offered me a tootsie roll (small one). That was all he gave me and sent me on my way.
When I saw him today for the gout I told him that he could not say he had never had a patient go hypo right in front of him. We talked about it just a little bit but i felt he was very uncomfortable. I told him he should have given mne more, that a small tootsie roll really did not do much good. Interesting.
Simons:s:

[poodlebone]

I have been type 1, insulin dependent for 63 years and have been so fortunate in having only a couple of hypo's. But my last one is now funny. A week ago I was at my local doctors for gout. I did not realize I was low but I could not keep my eyes open. He finally told me my bs was 44 and offered me a tootsie roll (small one). That was all he gave me and sent me on my way.
When I saw him today for the gout I told him that he could not say he had never had a patient go hypo right in front of him. We talked about it just a little bit but i felt he was very uncomfortable. I told him he should have given mne more, that a small tootsie roll really did not do much good. Interesting.
Simons:s:

Your doctor definitely should have known better. If he had nothing else to give you, he should have sent someone from the office out to get something. And, he definitely should not have let you leave until he knew your BG was back up! One day I was at my doctor's for a regular visit, mostly to get new prescriptions and have blood drawn. The following day she called me at work, asking me if I was okay. I told her I was fine, and she said that the random BG they had the lab do from my blood draw the previous day came back at 33. She wanted to know if I had any trouble getting to work after I left her office. I don't drive, but I did walk all the way to the subway and got to work fine. I know I did eat some Starburst once I got on the train.

The next time I went she had them do a finger stick at the office. After that, she completely forgot about it and they've never checked me again. When I go to see my CDE they always do a finger stick with their meter.

[Brouts]

Thats a "never" for me (knock on wood);)

[baby*red]

4 times in the last year....eek!