How often do you have hypos?

[MarkMunday]

I have been looking at my BG test result chart for the last 30 days. And the graph goes beneath the Hypo line, which is at 2.8mmol/l(50mg/dl) 12 times. I was wondering how that compares with the norm.

On average, how often do you go hypo weekly or monthly?

Cheers,

Mark

[nantomsuethom]

Thomas has hypos at least once a week. When he is out playing with his friends he usually takes his pump off and he will still go low and depending on what they are playing he will drink a juice and still go low.
He was having lows around 10am almost everyday. We made a change in the morning basal and it has helped some.

[sparkle9]

I must say I'm not as good a record keeper as you are, Mark, but I would say I have hypos at least 12 times per month - probably more. Usually it's because I'm more active than usual, often unexpectedly. You'd think after 34 years I would have learned exactly how to handle it, but I guess that I sometimes miss the mark! On the other hand, I've been told that going low is common when you are trying to achieve tight control.

I went to a new endo last week and was asked to keep better records. I've had 4 lows since then, but I was counting anything below 70.

Sparkle

[PepsiLvr]

At least once a week here, usually twice.

[Eri's mom]

I think it's actually been a week and a half since I've seen Eri low....her wake up readings have been 238 and up lately....stress of moving and she's got congestion in her chest....UGH!!! We're moving in about a week...so she HAS to stay healthy(well, I'd want her to stay healthy anyway...)...ok, I'm rambling...I'm so discombobulated right now w/ my home all torn apart and being packed....argh...and w/ Christmas ....what, ummm....4 days away??? This is a CRAZY year I tell ya...lol....I HAVE to laugh....b/c my mind is almost totally gone already...lol. Humor, faith, the best medicine.

[koblenz]

Maybe 4 times a month I go below 70. Lowest I have ever been is 54, and that was scary for me.

[duck]

My meter has told me I was 29 once, when I landed in the UK a couple/few years ago. I guess I was literally dead for a little while.

Anyway, 12 hypos a month sounds about right for me too. But for me nowadays I seem to be in "safe" situations when I have them, which is good.

[Eri's mom]

Oh gosh...Eri registered at 19mg/dL on the paramedic's glucometer(I didn't think they could go below 20 w/o reading LO, which she had done b/f)...but she was 21mg/dL on my meter. ....one time, she was walking around normal as could be at 27 or something like that in the 20's....really weird. That was a few years ago.

[Dewey]

The last bad hypo I had was a little while ago (ask Shy or Carwy..lol). Things got a little confusing, and I started seeing (what I call) Picasso. Everything looked like it was put together funny (hence the Picasso reference). That was a bad one. Other than that, I've had a few readings in the 40's or 50's per week or every two weeks, but nothing really bad. (I've also recently lowered my basals and total daily intake, so that's another reason for the fewer lows and better levels). :D

[Brent44a]

I've had 8 readings below 70 in my first month on the pump, None below 60. I am testing at least seven times per day. I've had a similar number above 130, all but one because I did not bolus. The one apparently due to flu like symptoms after taking the flu shot.

[KrisinNM]

How often do I go low? About once a day. Which is about how many times I go above 250. I am trying to get some sort of control back after lots of major changes in the last year, hopefully my new Cozmore will help.

[am1977]

The main time when I go low is after exercise...I have had times where I finish my cardio and immediately know that I am having a hypoglycemic episode. I feel like a walking zombie :eek: My blood sugar has gone as low as in the 30 range...which is scary. I have never passed out, thank god, but when it goes that low I understand how it is possible. Other than exercise, I don't typically go low...if my blood sugar level tends to go to one extreme more...it would be high :( .

[HeatherP]

Back while I was on NPH, I had a least one mild reaction every day.

On Lantus for 2 years. I recently started walking again, so I'm currently working on adjusting my insulin dose so I'm getting maybe 1-2 a week. Before this, 1-2 per month (on Lantus).

[gettingby]

I've had alot of morning lows in the past 2 months. CDE changed Lantus to morning. We'll see how that goes. :whistling I had a very bad one about a week ago. Almost passed out but luckily I didn't. Treated first, then checked. 38 when I checked :eek: .

[gettingby]

Oh gosh...Eri registered at 19mg/dL on the paramedic's glucometer(I didn't think they could go below 20 w/o reading LO, which she had done b/f)...but she was 21mg/dL on my meter. ....one time, she was walking around normal as could be at 27 or something like that in the 20's....really weird. That was a few years ago.
Been there, done that Robin. My low last week, I was talking but couldn't get the right words out.

[Clint]

I had a 37 the other day... was seeing spots and kinda out of it... I tend to have at least one low a week, but usually more....

[lgvincent]

Often. My parents claim I was having 40 a day after I first developed diabetes but I don't believe it. It was a lot, though.

[christie]

since switching to lantus,maybe once a week or once every other week,compared to 6 times a week on humalin u.

[Dewey]

How often do I go low? About once a day. Which is about how many times I go above 250. I am trying to get some sort of control back after lots of major changes in the last year, hopefully my new Cozmore will help. Kris, I sure hope the Cozmore is as helpful to you as it has been for me. Since making the switch, I've found that I was able to get sugars more level and keep them that way, and have been able to lose weight & lower my daily insulin intake as well. Here's hoping you get the same results and reduce those lows! :thumbsup:

[Mick]

For the last 10 years I was on NPH & R, I was having pratically one every day, several bad ones each week, and maybe one a month which my wife would have to intervene on--plus one per year where she had to call 911... Those were bad years... Since starting on Novolog and Lantus 3.5 years ago, I have had not a single low which I could not treat myself. I am "low" nearly every morning--I generally wake up between 55-70 mg/dl, which I find is fine for me--I am actually more comfortable there than at 120. I seldom test lower than 70 at other time--occasionally, but not often. Exercise no longer causes me to drop low--as long as I have no active bolus insulin still working in my body. It's all in the timing. So--I don't have "hypos" anymore--as in, I seldom actually need to treat a low reading. Plus, my a1c remains below 7--6.6 was my last reading.

Michael
T1 since 1965

[Clint]

I had 2 hypos yesterday, both in the fifties and one on friday that was in the 30's...

[Maria]

I have 2-3 hupos a week. But these hypos are not bad.

[Clint]

I am starting to have these almost everyday....

[lgvincent]

My insulin dose seems to change with the seasons. Usually when it gets colder I need more and when it get warmer I need less. Maybe you're going through something like that.

[buzzborne]

My insulin dose seems to change with the seasons. Usually when it gets colder I need more and when it get warmer I need less. Maybe you're going through something like that.

I find this also, and the adjusting causes more hypos and hypers until it is adjusted properly.

[KrisinNM]

until it is adjusted properly.

Ahh yes, and about that time we have to change our clocks for standard or savings time. Think I will move to Aridzona! :p

[soremom]

The weirdest one I had was at work. I was on the phone with a customer, a long call, and towards the end I felt a little different, tested and meter read 23. Quite shocked since the customer seemed to be able to understand me and I was doing well on the call. Started to drink some juice, I always read when doing this so I can tell when it is coming up I can understand what I am reading. Someone came by and I realized that I had been completely out and that about 20 mins had passed. Tested again and still in mid 20's. Figured I better giving glucagon so I would not pass out at work. Went into the bathroom and gave myself the shot. Was washing my hands when someone else in the bathroom realized what I had laying beside me was. I told her I would be fine in a few minutes, she didn't believe me.

By then the shakes started and I knew I would need to go home, I felt like sh**, best way to describe it. A supervisor came over and asked me if I was alright. I said no and that as soon as I could I was going come.

On the way home I was so tired I didn't know if I would make it. I live less than 5 miles from work. Came home and sleep for a few hours, woke and felt somewhat normal.

I couldn't believe I was able to think clearly and give myself the shot, any other time I would have been out cold.

Kim

[zookeeper671]

I seem to have 2 to 3 minor lows a week (50's to 60's mg/dl). I'm sure it's because I'm eating much less and being more active. I'm awful at coming to my own rescue... usually overdue the remedy and swing high. (As I did this eve. Had a low, wigged out and over-did the "fix" springing my level up to 471mg/dl.) Hate it when I do that. :mad: I'm now sitting here a bit stressed hoping my correction for my fix won't be an over-correction. Reminds me of a hamster wheel.

I was having hypos about 5 out of every 7 nights. I was going low, but I wasn't waking up from it. I'd only wake up after it had passed, all sweaty, shivering, dizzy, irritable and nauseous. Sometimes my bf would shake me awake and tell me I needed to eat something. When I'd lower the basal dose (Lantus), I'd swing high during the day and end up compensating with boluses. That was part of the reason why I ended up having to go inpatient last month. (Also found out I have a kidney cyst, among other things.) My endo was worried that one night I'd have a hypo and wouldn't wake up at all, or without the help of glucagon and/or paramedics (which happened a few times to me shortly after dx).

Switched my Lantus dose from PM to AM plus a few other adjustments and so far so good. :)

Soremom~ I was crinkling my forehead with anxiety when I read your post. :eek: That had to be freaky.

Angie

[docta-docta]

I couldn't believe I was able to think clearly and give myself the shot, any other time I would have been out cold.
Kim

Kim,
How high were you after that glucogon shot?

What was it like giving it to yourself? Many people cannot stand the thought of jabbing a much-larger needle into their bodies!

[Batty]

i'd say on a good month..once. on a regular month..maybe at the most 4times.

[soremom]

The glucagon shot didn't hurt any worse than a regular injection. It took me a good half hour to get it up to 100 before I felt I could drive home. I only live a couple miles away and wanted to get home as soon as I could, rather be with family than at work when I am low. Luckily I have not had to do that again, and hope I never will.

Kim

[docta-docta]

Wow, that really sounds scary, soremom. Can you think back about the cause of it? (Too much insulin / not enough food?)

Jabbing a glucagon shot into oneself reminds me of the movie where Nicholas Cage had to jab the atrophine (VX gas antidote) syringe directly into his own heart muscle in order to survive after exposure to VX when he killed the last bad guy with it.

(It was amusing that he walked away so healthy looking after that).

[soremom]

I was going through a period of dropping extremely low very quick. We never found out why. I finally went back on my pump and it has help so much. I would never feel these lows coming on. I could test and be 105 and within a half hour be waking up to someone jabbing me and being soaked. I was scared to death to go anywhere or doing anything. I was testing constantly. Still do even though things are under control. Wish I knew what caused it so I could prevent it from happening again, but I will just keeping testing.

Kim