Hypo Tip

[Apple]

When in hypo, whilst in recovery, i tend to start typing on the computer on either MSN, or if no one is about on microsoft word. I just type anything really.

I do this to try and keep my brain active as i am concentrating more. I reckon it helps the recovery process speed up.

Would you agree? disagree??

[duck]

My immediate thought is no...The only fuel the brain uses is glucose, so if you are making your brain work harder, you are burning glucose that may not exactly be plentiful...

Someone posted a while back that they can literally THINK themselves into a hypo...

[psilocybin]

My immediate thought is no...The only fuel the brain uses is glucose, so if you are making your brain work harder, you are burning glucose that may not exactly be plentiful...

Someone posted a while back that they can literally THINK themselves into a hypo...

think yourself into a hypo???wow all u would need to do is think instead of taking insulin lol

[spike]

When in hypo, whilst in recovery, i tend to start typing on the computer on either MSN, or if no one is about on microsoft word. I just type anything really.

I do this to try and keep my brain active as i am concentrating more. I reckon it helps the recovery process speed up.

Would you agree? disagree??


Disagree! I need all my meager mental faculties intact when posting. :)

[Cinnabon]

I have to disagree too. I would do something similar, because I was at work actually typing, while I was going low.

[Finn]

When I get super low, all I can think is "must...get...food...going..to die...must..eat" but those are the wake up in the middle of the night WAY too low- low's. Otherwise I'm pretty foucused on getting the bs back up and don't feel functional until I do. If you can multitask like that while you are low and it helps you sort things out....go for it.

[psilocybin]

When I get super low, all I can think is "must...get...food...going..to die...must..eat" but those are the wake up in the middle of the night WAY too low- low's. Otherwise I'm pretty foucused on getting the bs back up and don't feel functional until I do. If you can multitask like that while you are low and it helps you sort things out....go for it.

i freak out bad when i wake up and my heart is racing, im swetting like crazy, and im shaking, and feel like im going to faint.. its a very very uncomfortable and scary feeling. its a bit easier when your already awake with a hypo...i find it extremely hard to keep my mind off of it when i am awake. but it may make it a tiny bit easier

hypos awake or jsut waking up i find are one ofthe scarriest things i have to go through healthwise. but what are you gonna do? there is nothing we will probly be going through them for the rest of our lives.

[palefacegirl03]

Middle of the night lows , lots of mindless food eaten. Then I sit up in bed and watch infocommercials. Must hide the credit cards before I go to bed, so I dont buy stupid stuff!

[psilocybin]

Middle of the night lows , lots of mindless food eaten. Then I sit up in bed and watch infocommercials. Must hide the credit cards before I go to bed, so I dont buy stupid stuff!

LOL!!
dont blame ya... who knows with a hypo eh?

[koblenz]

Someone posted a while back that they can literally THINK themselves into a hypo...
Well I guess I don't ever have to worry about that! :stupido2:

[duck]

Well I guess I don't ever have to worry about that! :stupido2:

Bwuuhaaaahaaaahaaaaaaa!

Actually, I had never thought of it, but I guess I have ended up hypo while studying a time or two...

[gettingby]

Well I guess I don't ever have to worry about that! :stupido2:
Too easy !!!!!! LOL:T

[someone]

Erm.. I have no idea where you could have gotten that from.. your brain does not require that much glucose. If you really want to "burn" glucose, go run for an hour. That is what I have done in the past, along with drinking 1/2 gallon of water, when I got really high.

[duck]

Erm.. I have no idea where you could have gotten that from.. your brain does not require that much glucose. If you really want to "burn" glucose, go run for an hour. That is what I have done in the past, along with drinking 1/2 gallon of water, when I got really high.

Who are you talking to?

[psilocybin]

Erm.. I have no idea where you could have gotten that from.. your brain does not require that much glucose. If you really want to "burn" glucose, go run for an hour. That is what I have done in the past, along with drinking 1/2 gallon of water, when I got really high.

i always chug water to correct myself.. 2 bottles drops me like 2mmol

[JasonSmithMT]

Erm.. I have no idea where you could have gotten that from.. your brain does not require that much glucose.

The brain uses much more glucose than you might think. It is a very active metabolic organ using 15% of cardiac output and 20% of glucose consumption at rest. All from an organ that is only 2% of adult body weight.

Source: Clarke DD, Sokoloff L: Circulation and energy metabolism of the brain. Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects. Lippincott-Raven:1998:637

Jason

[spike]

The brain uses much more glucose than you might think. It is a very active metabolic organ using 15% of cardiac output and 20% of glucose consumption at rest. All from an organ that is only 2% of adult body weight.

Source: Clarke DD, Sokoloff L: Circulation and energy metabolism of the brain. Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects. Lippincott-Raven:1998:637

Jason

so how come my bg drops when I'm active and doesn't change when I'm writing complex formulas for 4 solid hours at a stretch, day in and day out? My last job was toiling over software... :)

[Finn]

The JOY of diabetes! :stupido:

[zookeeper671]

****. If I tried to type while recovering from a hypo, I'd be typing in a foreign language of my own creation.... Zookeepinese.

[someone]

Who are you talking to?

I didn't quote anyone.. so it is usually assumed that I am talking to the person who started the thread. ;)

[duck]

I didn't quote anyone.. so it is usually assumed that I am talking to the person who started the thread. ;)

That's why I was confused. The person who started the thread was referring to methods to raise blood sugar a bit faster.

[someone]

That's why I was confused. The person who started the thread was referring to methods to raise blood sugar a bit faster.

I'm confused too :hmmmm2: .

[JasonSmithMT]

so how come my bg drops when I'm active and doesn't change when I'm writing complex formulas for 4 solid hours at a stretch, day in and day out? My last job was toiling over software... :)

Of course you are going to use more energy when you are active as opposed to not being active. Your brain will also use more energy writing complex formulas for 4 hours than sitting doing nothing for 4 hours.

Jason

[dws]

A couple of years ago, 2 or 3 am, I woke up feeling a bit low, I got up and being a nice guy I am waited until I was in the bathroom before TRYING to turn on the light.... however someone had moved the light switch, also moved the door handle I fumbled around in the dark bathroom for what seem to have been several hours, never did find the switch or door handle :) At last my wife opened the door and said I was sitting on the floor patting the floor trying to find something, when I answered her I said I was looking for the switch and door handle , she squirted a tube of that glucose paste in my mouth Later the next morning I told her about the theft of our light switch and door knob. She was not very impressed. :)
don

[psilocybin]

A couple of years ago, 2 or 3 am, I woke up feeling a bit low, I got up and being a nice guy I am waited until I was in the bathroom before TRYING to turn on the light.... however someone had moved the light switch, also moved the door handle I fumbled around in the dark bathroom for what seem to have been several hours, never did find the switch or door handle :) At last my wife opened the door and said I was sitting on the floor patting the floor trying to find something, when I answered her I said I was looking for the switch and door handle , she squirted a tube of that glucose paste in my mouth Later the next morning I told her about the theft of our light switch and door knob. She was not very impressed. :)
don

lol cute story. i its amazing what being low does to you. i feel bad for you to be in that situation though

[Apple]

That's why I was confused. The person who started the thread was referring to methods to raise blood sugar a bit faster.

I wasnt really looking for that either.

I started this thread to see if methods i currently used would aid in recovery from hypo also to see if other people agreed with this wayas a method of recovery, or not and the answers received have been very thought provoking

[duck]

I wasnt really looking for that either.

I started this thread to see if methods i currently used would aid in recovery from hypo also to see if other people agreed with this wayas a method of recovery, or not and the answers received have been very thought provoking

Ah. My mistake.

Depending on the low, if I was posting on MSN, I could probably start quite a riot somewhere!

[psilocybin]

I wasnt really looking for that either.

I started this thread to see if methods i currently used would aid in recovery from hypo also to see if other people agreed with this wayas a method of recovery, or not and the answers received have been very thought provoking

i think the best method of aiding a hypo is eating... lol..i feel to weird and uncomfortable to do anything else...keeping my mind off a hypo is extremely hard i find. but its just nice to have someone there that knows what its like.