Has anyone NOT lost consciousness due to Hypo?

[Fred&CharlesFan]

Please READ criteria before responding.

In view of Tokyo Cate's rough adventure... ...is there anyone out there that HAS:
(1) well lets start with at least 10yrs experience with insulin AND
(2) has NEVER lost consciousness as the result of hypoglycemia?
( I guess I am thinking that us types 1 are more prone to this kind of adventure, as time moves along).

[jeggeman31]

Well I did vote, but I have only been on Insulin for about 6 years or so. However I have never lost consciousness due to a hypo.

[jenet]

10+ years on insulin. Never lost consciousness; never seized or convulsed; never had 911 called; lowest BG 32. Too much info? ;)

cheers,
j

[JediSkipdogg]

Depends on what you consider losing consciousness. In 23+ years of insulin I have been taken to the ER numerous times for having convulsions from insulin shock. My last one was about 4 years ago but I was with my mom and so it didn't get severe enough that I fell on the ground. But in high school I'd say I had about 5 of them, with I know 3 resulting in ambulance rides, most during my last 2 years.

[DeusXM]

8 years. Lowest recorded BG: 1.7mmol/l. Worst effect: Rather hungry.

I've just been really lucky I guess.

[notme]

20 years on insulin. Never knocked out, no convulsions and always able to treat myself. My husband has done a few food runs for me. I feel very fortunate. Lowest my blood sugar has ever been on my meter was 23.

[DeusXM]

Good to see you're living up to your name!

[Pitzi]

Good to see you're living up to your name!
Been on insulin for 10 years and a bit now. Lost conciousness only twice and once it resulted in a nasty accident, another time I passed out in my office and they found me on the floor.

[lelggren]

I have only lost consciousness once after being T1 for 11 years (next week!). I'm not sure how low I was, but I'll tell my story.

I was in Utah with a friend of mine, Kory, and we were driving back to Vegas which is where Kory lived and where I would be flying back to Minnesota from. We had skipped breakfast, and it was well past lunch time ( I realize my error, don't worry.... :embarasse ), and so we stopped at a Subway to have some food. Well, we were in the line deciding what to order and such. When I got to the checkout, the room starting getting blue, and I couldn't breathe, and eventually passed out. When I came to, I ate a footlong sub, and some chips and it only brought my bg up to 155. Makes me wonder how low I was.....

Well, that's my story! I haven't passed out again since, and I hope I don't again.

[Pitzi]

I forgot to say. I dont know how low I was when I passed out. On the day of my accident, I tested about an hour earlier and was 5.2 (still remember vividly) I remember about 35-40 minutes of my drive. After that all I remember is waking up under a bridge with a bleeding GF and a nasty accident site. That will remain with me forever :(

I normally start getting sick at anything below 2.5, but once I tested 1.8 and was still feeling ok. so yeah, confusion all around. Firstly how the **** did I manage to go from 5.2 to passing out in 35 minutes? well it was around 2am, my last injection was at 18:00 the previous evening, and I had a fairly good meal. After that we went to a new year's party, I forgot to take any fruits along to keep my BG up, so I only managed to keep it up using sugar and soft drinks, no solid food.

[MagsRM23]

Almost 14 years and no blackouts, seizures, or trips to the ER. There was only one time when I woke up very disoriented and needed help to treat my low. I have gone pretty low though; I think the "record" is 27. But always conscious!

-Maggie

[Stumpkins]

Great Topic! I have been type 1 for 18 years -- and have passed out/seized and either had the paramedics at my house or ended up in the ER 11 times. I actually ended up in the ER 2weeks after starting my pump. : ( The last time was May 12, and I am so hopeful that this will never happen again. Does anyone else get that unbelievably horrible headache after they come to???

[rzrbks]

In the 1st year or 2, I came very close, but not lately...........smarter, I guess.

[sydneya]

I have been on insulin 12+ years. I meet all the criteria, and voted. But I am type 2.

[jen_slc]

You always hear about the bad episodes people have, but it's great to see that there are those of us who haven't lost consciousness or seized or anything.

I passed the 14 year mark a few months ago and have never lost consciousness, never seized and never been to the hospital/ED for any reason due to my diabetes (or for anything else for that matter). There was one close call a few years ago when my Lantus dose wasn't right and I woke up very loopy but since I was sleeping, had I then lost consciousness while sleeping and come to or did I just wake up? I'm not sure. I just know my dad was ready to call 999. Anyway, I feel pretty fortunate for my 14 years. Lowest bg reading has been 30.

[sbuff28@charter]

Never had for any reason ever, scares me to think i may someday

[UpNorth]

Voted even though i have only had T1 for 1 year 6 months and 6 days :1eye: But i HAVE passed out once from a hypo... For some reason, i managed to fix getting back to normal with out help from others *was home alone too so*... Was in my room, surfing the internet, started to feel low, went to the kitchen, then i don't remember anything until waking up on the kitchen floor with syrup bottle in one hand and used glucagon syringe in the other:dontknow:

[Dewey]

I have lost consciousness in the 24 years I've been Diabetic, and it's happened quite a few times. I've been fortunate each time....Since each of us is very different, some may experience passing out from a low, while others might never have that happen.

[gettingby]

Been there, done that, realized my error and learned a valuable lesson.

[am1977]

My 4 year anniversary is coming up with the BIG d :eek:... and I haven't passed out or seized once :proud:. I know it hasn't been nearly as long as some of you old timers (:wink: ), but I'm hoping to continue that way. I don't want any future EMT visits or ambulance rides :thumpdown

[psilocybin]

i have lost consciousness twice...first time i needed medical attention.. second time i woke up with glucose tabs beside bed, i felt extremely drunk when i woke up...no i did not drink that night guys lol...so i started pounding back glucose tabs like crazy ate like 6 of them i think, at this point i was so disoriented i could not even walk straight and next think i remember is waking up and getting off the floor....must have passed out after consuming all those tabs and suddenly woke up when the kicked in....extremely scary experiences, dont ever want that again

[condensr]

10 years as a T1, and never passed out/lost control due to a low so far. But then, my control so far has not been all that great. I've got the red box sitting ready in case though.

[Tokyo Cate]

10+ years on insulin. Never lost consciousness; never seized or convulsed; never had 911 called; lowest BG 32. Too much info? ;)


I want to be more like you!

[2high]

I've been T1 for nearly 14 yrs, and never actually lost conciousness, but had a bad "episode"

I was 10, we had just moved to Melbourne from a town called Geelong, and my mum woke up at 2am to hear crashing noises in my bedroom, which i shared with my sister, aged 5. Mum came in to find me walking around with my arm twisted up like it was paralysed, and I was just speakng baby talk, or really simple phrases, and calling her "munny", instead of "mummy". She pricked my finger, and it read "LO", which is below 1.1 mmol. By this stage she was trying to get me to drink lemonade, juice, whatever, but I just kept spitting it out. She called my paediatrician (who was also a family friend) and was instructed to do the Glucgon thing. (ouch) After the injection worked, my little sister Lexy came out, and was asking me peoples names. Grandma was Amy. Mum was Amy. Dad was Amy. and Pa was, well, Amy. Ithen started vomiting. Next day i ended up in hospital with DKA... Turns out I'm also allergic to Glucagon... grrrr

[Tokyo Cate]

In my six years in Japan, I have had a pretty poor record with three lows resulting in treatment by paramedics (two in which I was taken to hospital so that they could check me over after) and three others that resulted in glucagon. I have had other lows where friends have had to "encourage me" to drink juice.

Back in my lente/regular days I was having serious hypos requiring intervention at least monthly, so at least those days are over.

I am tired of the roller coaster though, but don't want to compromise my A1C. :banghead:

[Mick]

I've been a Type 1 for 41 years. Although I had a few pretty bad hypos in my teens, I never passed out. I spent 4 years in college, 2 years in a meditation ashram, and half a year following my guru around mountaintops in Switzerland, and never had a problem. Thru my 20s and 30s I never had a single episode of hypoglycemia bad enough to require a 911 call or resulting in unconsciousness. Then sometime around 1990, I switched from pork and beef insulin to rDNA "Human" insulin--R & NPH. I began immediately to experience increasingly severe hypos, and to feel them less and less. During those 10 years, from 1990-2000, I passed out at least a half dozen times, had as many 911 calls, had one car accident, and many mindless midnight wanderings about the house looking for food. Once I began Lantus and Novolog, I totally stopped having these episodes, and in the past 6 years have not had a single hypo that I was unable to treat myself.

Michael

[pumpman]

I've had type 1 for about 2 years, my lowest BSL was 0.9 [14.5mg/dl] (yes I'm winning so far :P ) I was quite shaky and ate sugar foods for about 5min straight. I have never passed out due to a hypo.

I wonder if anyone's ever got below 0.5 or to 0.0 and was still conscious?