Scary Low

[Doetsch]

i just got a reding of 34. I don't have any syptmoms and feel fine. Wieerd. I have corectted and am okaey but ihas just freaeked me out a little. I guess my body is ready for anomther Basal Cghange Whoo-Hoo.

Anybody elses ever have prtetty extreme lows without realizgin

[duck]

I've had lows in the 30's and felt very normal. What is apparent to me is if I go low real fast, I can feel more normal--I assume because the brain probably hasn't had to deplete its glucose stores yet. If I go low at a medium rate, those I feel more definately. And if I go low reeeeeal slow, that too can sneak up on me, kinda like the frog in slowly boiling water. Weird, huh?

[jen_slc]

Yup it happens to me too. I have felt pretty good in the 30-range. For me, the intensity and presence of symptoms is usually related to how fast I drop - the faster it is, the worse I feel it.

[duck]

Yup it happens to me too. I have felt pretty good in the 30-range. For me, the intensity and presence of symptoms is usually related to how fast I drop - the faster it is, the worse I feel it.

You know, you are like the Anti-duck. If we ever meet, the resultant mutual annihilation would cause a rip in the fabric of space.

Okay, back on topic. :king:

[lgvincent]

I have many times. It seems I will get symptoms when in the 20's more often than when I'm in the 30's, for some strange reason.

[Cinnabon]

Been perfect at 30 qnd just silly at 20.
What I was able to pin point at was running BS too perfect. The Unawareness effect is VERY scary. Its simple to just run a bit higher in the 100's for a while, this will take care of it. Most def. look into your basals.

[Cyborg]

Ever since being on the pump and having tighter control, I seem to be less aware of lows. A couple 50's and even a 30 something have snuck up on me and I barely felt them. Makes me wonder how many lows I have been sleeping through.

[leslie91879]

I am still new to this forum but I had a low of 25 and didnt know it just felt a little tired but I thought it was from the marching in the parking lot that did it (high school marching band color guard)

[parrotletzoo]

I rarely have symtoms of lows anymore. Occasionally at work, I am unable to lift heavy objects, which just pisses me off ;) so I go test and I'm often low then. the last time I went low and had symptoms I think I was low for a couple of hours before I realized it, but I left my meter home and didn't eat as much as normal before exercise. Bad me! I haven't left my meter home since tho....

[am1977]

Once in a while, I'll have a really low LOW....like in the 30s...and not realize it. However, most of the time, I'll have symptoms and can recognize needing to treat the condition.

I'm still perfecting my post workout blood sugar issues :rolleyes:, but am seeing less and less hypoglycemia...which is a good thing. Those symptoms can be scary when we're low, but it's much more scary if you let things go untreated :eek:.

[gettingby]

I have been in the upper 30's before and still functioning like normal. I have also been in the 40's to 50's range and really felt the low coming on. Weird how our bodies treat us.

[Funnygrl]

After running a bit higher than in the past I am just now getting some of my low symptoms back. It always freaks me out to test really low and not realize it. Than sometimes I will get symptoms after I test and realize I was low- sorta like I don't realize it till I start to try and realize it- if that makes sense.

[Tokyo Cate]

I tend to not realize I am going low if it happens slowly. My roommate noticed that when I am low and something frustrates me, I tend to growl a little. Now when I find myself getting frustrated and growling, I test. I recall another thread several weeks ago on hypoglycemia unawareness and somebody posted a tip that when he loses his sense of time (looks at the clock several times in a short period of time) that is a sign that he is low.

[Cyborg]

Sometimes I get hot before I realize I'm low. Usually by the time I get hot, I'm already at or below 50.

Tighter control definately has this lack of awareness as a drawback.

[psilocybin]

i feel lows all the time, maybe its just because i havent been diagnosed long enough to get hypo unawareness

[insulinfreak]

wow 34!:afraid: i went down to 19 once, that was scary

[Cyborg]

wow 34!:afraid: i went down to 19 once, that was scary

Got me beat... That is scary! Did you feel it?

[Tokyo Cate]

Years ago, in the early 1990s I was skiing and decided to test right after I got off the ski lift before I started my run--I was 1.1. Sure am glad I tested. I didn't feel a thing.

[condensr]

I tend not to notice my lows if I get there really fast. I'll test, and be in the 40s, then treat it.. As I'm on the way back up from treating it, THEN I feel the symptoms.