Do you do anything weird when you hypo?

[xMenace]

In my early D years I was told that a small percentage of diabetics lose complete control of their senses when they hypo, even for mild hypos, for example they might strip off all their clothes because they were hot and maybe start trying to shoot canaries with their syringes. I was scared to hypo for awhile, until I learned I didn't strip in public.

I've never actually known or heard of any D's that lose control except for severe hypos. Have any of you?

I've only done one crazy thing. Once my wife 911'd me when I was standing up in bed naked holding up th e ceiling because it was falling.

[KMP]

I am pretty withdrawn when I hypo...I try to hide it even from my wife who is the one telling me I have low blood sugar. It is just the way I react to it.
One time my wife and I were over my parents having dinner and just when we were going to eat...I went hypo. I spent the first 10 minutes of dinner staring into my wifes eye telling her that she had something in it. I think I almost poked it out to get -whatever I was seeing- out of her eye. :hahaha: Freaked her out a little
A long time ago I went hypo in the morning and my sister stayed around to make sure I was ok..I did not think anyone was home and I paraded around my bedroom naked - trying to "find" clothes to wear to work. She was trying to get me to drink som OJ and I was clueless about the 'state' I was in...:whistling

[cheryl]

I had one hypo recently in December where I could tell I was low, but I was so busy I wanted to clean my house so i grabbed a cookie and sipped a coke and kept on with my business, well OK, the whole has looked so dirty, I kept on vaccuming the floor and all of a sudden these big dust piles were building up on the furniture, I had to clean them, but the specks on that carpet were getting so big despite my effort. In the back of my head I am like, I still feel low so dumb me grabs another cookies sips on more coke and I just keep on cleaning, well when the x-mas tree started to spin, the thought of telling my husband crossed my mind. I grabbed my machine and as I was walking upstairs I am cracking up laughing....I go into my bedroom and tell Brent my sugar is low.....He looks at me funny and he is like check it. Ok it was 35 this was after 2 cookies and a half a coke......I start snapping back into reality and my hubby is running up the steps with mounds of cookies and pancake syrup, at this point i just finished my coke and ate about 6 peanut mm's......So I was fine, but I dropped 1 hr later back to 44 by this point I was mad and got a cookie and then I spiked real bad. Oh yea, when I went back downstairs the carpet was clean and their weren't these big dust piles I thought I saw......Can you say weird

Cheryl

[Keezheekoni]

I really don't do anything weird that I know of. However, I do get paranoid that something or someone is after me, so I really get freaked out.

I don't have any good stories about being low... however, I must commiserate with going low while house cleaning. I do that all the time. I hate house cleaning, because I go low during it, I try to do as little house cleaning as possible! :evil:

[Injecto]

...they might strip off all their clothes because they were hot and maybe start trying to shoot canaries with their syringes....

LOL.... :) Please tell me that's just made up because I'm cracking up just reading that. Funny as ****.

But seriously, nothing like that has happened to me yet, but I'm just tooo new so you never know when a striptease may start....

[blue_eyed_devil]

i hit and abuse people, pretty much lose control (when seriously low). i also get really angry at little things that i or others do irrationally - and cry easily (when just low 'normally').

i'm not sure if that is what you mean, but that's my two cents...

[xMenace]

LOL.... :) Please tell me that's just made up because I'm cracking up just reading that. Funny as ****.

But seriously, nothing like that has happened to me yet, but I'm just tooo new so you never know when a striptease may start....

It is a composite. The nude part was told to me lots of times. The one I recall is someone stripping down and washing their car. The canary bit came from a post here that I cant find. Someone was riding a horse clothed and shooting syringes at them with a bow.

I was lead to believe that these people always did crazy things. I think I'm convinced it was an urban legend.

[Emm]

So far (oh I hope I can say this in a decade) I haven't done anything weird. But also, so far, I've never had a really serious hypo.

My worst was an overnight low after staying up late with munchies and mis-calculating my insulin. I got up and bumped my way down the hallway to get to the loo. (Needing the loo is my first sign of being low - yes I know I'm weird!) I had a lot of trouble walking, and was giggling a little, but I managed to get back to the bedroom to test & nibble. I was 1.8 (32) and I think that was my very first overnight low. Survived it with my clothes on! (PJs anyway).

I do tend to get a little touchy, and sometimes will be ditsy - for example, I've been known to wander out to the kitchen and look for a good healthy carb-free snack... not entirely helpful, but once I realise what I'm doing I'm ok :) I'll often get distracted - perhaps I'm walking to the fridge for a sip of coke, but see that the bathroom basin needs cleaning so stop to do that. Duh.

[jimbob]

Well I tend to get a little violent when being woken up from a low, especially when strapped down to a gurney in an ambulance. I took my straps off and ripped my IV out spraying blood all over the walls and medics. it took both the medics and an officer to restrain me...
Also being low tends to put me in the mood if you know what I mean. Not that I'm a shy person by nature, but i'm really not when hypo. i've gotten kicked out of stores and cafes for coming on a little to strong to perfect strangers. but I have always managed to keep my clothes on, as far as I remember...

[KritterMom]

No, I just get woozy and want to pass out. I've heard stories of diabetics who freak out, or get real mean, or say mean things when they are low, but I'm not one of them. It's hard for my family to know when I'm low, they can't tell by my behavior.

[notme]

I have only once gone completely off the deep end. I went outside in mid winter at night. My daughter came out to see what the heck I was doing and I told her I was low. I also told her I was very concerned about the birds because it was cold and they needed food. She went in the house to grab some food and I just stayed outside. She finally coaxed me into the house.

My worst habit when low is refusing to eat. I try to eat things and don't "like" them. My husband gets so frustrated because he tries to recommend food and I turn it down and ignore the low. I do this ALL the time. Last night he made me toast and I refused to eat it. I drive people nuts with the one bite gone food sitting all over the kitchen and ignoring the low.

[KritterMom]

How do you ignore a low Nancy? I all but pass out. I can't imagine not knowing I'm low, but I know that there are some people who really don't know when they're going low. That would be horrible.

[Binne]

My worst habit when low is refusing to eat.

Thank God! I do this too. I have never understood it and my husband gets really frustrated with me. I have never been able to explain it to him. Thankfully he always wins in the end and I do agree to eat. I think it has something to do with the nausea I feel combined with a bit of fear, panic and sense of doom I get when I go low. I don't want to talk either.

On the occasions I have got really low I have not been able to understand or remember how to do anything. I had just had an operation and was unable to open my mouth or to chew, so my husband got me some soup in a teacup, and handed it to me with a teaspoon in it. I knew what to do with a cup... but there was a spoon...but it was a cup...but there was a spoon. I kind of got into a loop about it, and had no idea what to do. Eventually I mamaged to say "spoon" and my husband took it away. Then it was a cup and I knew what to do. I sipped a little and was fine. The other time I was gettingout of the car. I knew it had something to do with knees, but was stuck with the bending AND twisting. Could not remember how to do it.

[xMenace]

So I nod off around 3:30 this afternoon. Being hypo may have contributed since when my head finally snapped back just before it was about to hit the desk, I realized I was quite low. So I test.

2.2! I reach for my juice, but I can't. For some strange reason time stopped! I could only look at my 2.2. I couldn't even blink! I thought, my God, how am I going to live with time stopped and not being able to blink?! I forced myself to blink and miraculously time started moving again, but slowly. I noticed it was 4pm and that's good enough for me on a Friday. I somewhow (hopefully) shutdown my PC and headed home.

So I find myself in the parking lot. I still can't blink. I can't find my car! They all look the same to me. There's only about 200 of them, all black and covered in salt. I think, what the ****, I have to start somewhere, so I stick my keys into a door. It opens! Wow, I'm good!

I start the car and realize I shouldn't be driving, so I finally drink my juice. I wait for I don't know how long while I phone my wife. Grrr! Time stopped again and the **** phone won't ring! I pull out and head to the gate and wonder if time will let it open for me. It does. I head out onto the road. I almost didn't notice the big line of cars at the next left turn. It's about that time that time kicks in again and my phone starts working. My wife tells me I don't need to get her and wondered why I didn't read my email. I wasn't going to get her anyway; because I already knew the answer.

My sugars started recovering rather quicjkly then. Time started, my eyelids started blinking on their own, and I realized what had just happened. Whew :eek:

[notme]

Wow Binne, We are so much alike it is scary. Day before yesterday I went down into the mid 20's before I realized I was low. The phone rang and it was the dishwasher repair guy. He said he would be here in a half hour. I knew I needed to eat, but couldn't figure out simple things like how to open the can of soup or how to turn on the stove. It all seemed so complicated. I heard the doorbell ring and it was the dishwasher repairman. I found two bowls of soup in the sink, but I do NOT remember eating or what I ate. This happened again last night. I went low and knew I needed to get downstairs to get food. It seemed like such a heavy chore and I was not sure if I could make it. My son came home and found me sitting in the middle of my bed eating an ice cream sandwich. Unfortunately for me, it was sugar free and was not bringing up my sugar much. When my son told me to test after eating two of them I was 43.

I am having a huge issue the past two months with lows. I am unaware of my lows and am in the 20's before I feel "dizzy" and by the time I get food, I am in trouble. This is very frightening to me. I have lost track of time and had no memory of eating. This stinks!

[valc3]

If I'm having a severe hypo, I sweat. So, I peel clothes off. It can be embarrassing.

I don't refuse to eat to treat the low. I always feel there is nothing good to eat. The mind starts an arguement with itself, "You need to eat", "There's nothing good to eat" I just leave the glucose tabs on the counter and that's what I end up with.

[lgvincent]

I cuss like a drunken sailor and also get very paranoid.

[HiImDan]

I've flipped out in the presence of some non-forgiving former friends. They know I'm diabetic but suddenly forget when my blood sugar's low, thus I have no friends.

Some examples of low blood sugar (as stated previosly) would be a violent temper and cussing/aggitation, which I ask to please watch out for but they have too much fun with me.

[gobbly2100]

I must say I am 100% with it when going low and I have never passed out (YET).

I do tend to like laying on the floor alot and I find it hard to talk properly, I have never had a hypo where I forget about it or don't know what am doing.

I find it is just hard finding the wheelpower to move, I just wanna sleep but am with it enough to keep from doing that.

The lowest I have ever seen is about 1.5 (Scary)

[mageerobin]

I keep all my wits about me when going hypo even the one time I went super low. I told my wife to get me some juice because I could not get up off of the floor. When she came with it I told her I was about to pass out, and if I did, call 911. But don't call if I don't pass out just give me some time.

No I did not have any glucagon. That was the only time I ever really needed it.

Recently though I have been losing the feeling in my right arm. Not completely just super tingly.