Lowest Blood Sugar

[paramountz]

I am just wondering whats your lowest glucose reading mine was 31 last night i was really feeling bad anyone else?

[morrisma]

I think I've been 28 & really out of it, but I've been fine in my 40s. For me it all depends on the direction I'm going as I can also feel really bad at 70 if I am dropping rapidly.

[UpNorth]

I've had a couple of LO's and still been functioning, other times i can feel like **** at around 3.0 mmol/l. It depends on how i went low... if it was fast or slowly...

[dlayne]

The Tuesday I'd gotten down to 36, my lowest. Just a half hour before, I'd been at 95. I'd planned to eat a snack and then exercise. While putting on my workout clothes, I saw bright spots dead center. I'd seen those in my previous lowest lows (42) but couldn't believe I'd be going that low that fast; thought they might be after-images. I walked into the kitchen to make a snack and felt like I was going to pass out at the sink. Walked carefully back to the bedroom (near glucose tabs and meter) and tested at 36. I asked my husband to pray for me, and then chewed some glucose tablets before walking slowly back to the kitchen to get a more substantial snack.

Once a couple weeks ago I was driving and all of a sudden felt horrible, like I was awfully drunk, and dealing with traffic. I'd gotten down to 54 so I took the next off-ramp and parked; however, my husband (who was following me in his car) had to urge me to move out of the lane and onto the shoulder. Fortunately, nobody was coming, and I was able to eat enough glucose tabs and snacks to drive home.

[grace girl]

32...I felt perfectly normal....then about 10 minutes later (after I'd had whatever it was I ate/drank to bring it up) I experienced every symptom in the book for about a half an hour. It was very, very strange.

[Tashia]

The lowest I've ever been (to the best of my knowledge of course) is 44(2.4) . I kinda felt drunk.

That was when I was taking Insulin N & R for Gestational Diabetes.

Last week I skipped lunch and checked my BG before dinner and it was 77. Even though it's not 'low' I was still feeling like it was low.

My Mom said hers was down as low as 18! She was in the ER, they said she was pre diabetic. She's been fine since cutting the Mountain Dew. That was when I was 5, over 20 years ago.

[lethal]

My lowest is 1.8.The day it happened i had some lunch and went to sleep for 20mins woke up felt weird as thought i better test myself and it said 1.8 i said wtf then retested 2 more times both read the same as the first 1, better get to the beans fast.

Funny thing is i've felt worst at 2.5m/g then 1.8.Must of been close to passing out i think.

[Emm]

My lowest was 1.1 (20mg/dl) - a very scary number to see on my meter, but I actually didn't feel that bad. To be honest I've never felt that out of it during a low. I was really surprised to say the same after being that low though!

Like others have said, sometimes I feel absolutely shocking in the low 4s or even 5ish. Other times I don't feel a thing even if I'm quite low - until I test of course, and then once I've seen the meter the symptoms come on!

I think it has something to do with the speed of the drop, and maybe whether the liver is involved or not. Also I'm less likely to feel a low if I'm concentrating hard on something.

I generally don't see a lot of lows - at least, nothing major - because I test so often. I don't know what happened with that super low low! It was an overnighter too. Freaky :s

[Chappo]

1.4 mmol or around 25.

That was a post-alcohol crash and a nasty one at that.

[Stealthman80]

umm 2.4mmol/L it was pretty nastey:(

[xMenace]

I slept in this morning and I thought I was low doing so. I sat up around 10am in a sweat but I felt ok. I actually got to my laptop and made a couple of posts. I was feeling fine, actually the best I've felt in a long long time. I tested out of routine and curiosity as I prepared my coffee: 1.9/34! Wow. I grabbed an apple juice carton from the fridge and finished the last cup. I never felt hypo at all, and I've not been hypo all week. This matches my all-time lowest test. I've been near zero too many times, but obviously I couldn't test.

[Tashia]

I slept in this morning and I thought I was low doing so. I sat up around 10am in a sweat but I felt ok. I actually got to my laptop and made a couple of posts. I was feeling fine, actually the best I've felt in a long long time. I tested out of routine and curiosity as I prepared my coffee: 1.9/34! Wow. I grabbed an apple juice carton from the fridge and finished the last cup. I never felt hypo at all, and I've not been hypo all week. This matches my all-time lowest test. I've been near zero too many times, but obviously I couldn't test.

Wow!

I was feeling hypo today and my BG was 76!

[Hopenopus]

I've been as low as 15 and as high as 600 in the same day. The only thing higher then my A1C is the number of times I've woke up with a bunch of strange people standing around me. I have never had three BG tests in a row that were good.
Hopenopus

[RobiJo]

high teens, don't recall the exact number. I've had plenty in the 20's and 30's over the years as well. Some of those were after I drank some juice too. I suppose I've hit every number between 17 to 400 in my lifetime.

[gettingby]

Paramedics recorded me at 17 once. Unconscious.
Was getting ready for work one morning when I just felt the "need" to test. Didn't feel low, just felt "weird". Checked and meter said "LO" (which is below 20. My meter won't give a number below 20). Checked twice just to be sure and got the "LO" message both times. Was fully capable to helping myself with this one.

I slept in this morning and I thought I was low doing so. I sat up around 10am in a sweat but I felt ok. I actually got to my laptop and made a couple of posts. I was feeling fine, actually the best I've felt in a long long time. I tested out of routine and curiosity as I prepared my coffee: 1.9/34! Wow. I grabbed an apple juice carton from the fridge and finished the last cup. I never felt hypo at all, and I've not been hypo all week. This matches my all-time lowest test. I've been near zero too many times, but obviously I couldn't test.
John, what are we gonna do with you? I'm just glad you are ok. :)

[mwd]

25 on the meter...woke up in the middle of the nite...tested...feeling fine...25!! thot something was wrong w my meter...tested again after 10 mins and juice...50.

must have been lower at times when i didnt even need to test to tell that i was low...who knows:o

[Eddy]

I am just wondering whats your lowest glucose reading mine was 31 last night i was really feeling bad anyone else?

I've gone below 20 (1.1) a couple times. I've also hit 24 (1.3) and 26 (1.4), and been in the 30s a few times.

I've been as low as 15 and as high as 600 in the same day.

Ughh. That's gotta be rough. :(

Paramedics recorded me at 17 once. Unconscious.
Was getting ready for work one morning when I just felt the "need" to test. Didn't feel low, just felt "weird". Checked and meter said "LO" (which is below 20. My meter won't give a number below 20). Checked twice just to be sure and got the "LO" message both times. Was fully capable to helping myself with this one.


Eek. :eek: Glad you were okay. Fortunately, I've remained conscious so far.

My first sub-20 drop was while awake. Brutal. Cold sweat, racing palpitations, et cetera. I consumed 150-160 grams of sugars, mostly via fruit juice, then went to sleep once I was out of the woods. Awoke a few hours later at 225 -- indicating that I needed all but about 55g of the CHO.

My second sub-20 drop was while I was asleep. I awoke, thought that I should test, did so, swore a bit, had some juice, rested quietly while waiting on the sugar, and was fine.

[lgvincent]

I got a reading of 7 mg/dL in a doctor's office once. I don't know if I was sick because my blood sugar was low or if my blood sugar was low because I was sick but I was in bad shape when that happened.

[trailrunner]

23 mg/dl , I was awake, alert and shaky as ****.

[birdyland]

59 - I'm really careful....

[dbc]

"LO" on the meter which is apparently under 1.7(30). We were at a function at the time, I was actually standing drinking coffee & eating snacks, felt a bit strange, went out to the car to test, didn't believe the meter & wasted 4 strips before it dawned on me that the meter was right and I'd lost my brain somewhere!

5 glucose tabs & my wife drove home. It took about 15 hours or so before I felt "normal" again.