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04-04-2007, 11:06 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Land of Oz/Kansas
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| | | Do you get mean when you go low?
I'm just curious about what happens to other people when they go low. Do you get mean and nasty and viscious when you go low? I don't, I just sit down quietly and hang on for dear life. Do you get mean?
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Kimmy
Type 2
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04-04-2007, 11:17 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 7,261
| | My husband says I get more gripy when I'm high (blood sugar wise, of course  ). When i've had the few lows i've had, I've just felt shaky, anxious and hungry, not angry.
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Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
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04-04-2007, 12:58 PM
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| | | I don't think I get mean, just confused. I sometimes have trouble telling others what is wrong with me. The worst thing, I have had a sort of seizure, with my body shaking and jerking.
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04-04-2007, 01:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tenessee
Posts: 1,430
| | It depends sometimes i get really *****y when it is slowly dropping or i get hyper happy when it is dropping fast, sometimes i also get really emotional and sad ummmm I think my low's are like pms symptoms
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04-04-2007, 01:22 PM
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| | | If I catch it early enought I just get sweaty and a bit shakey and raid the fridge for chocolate! |
04-04-2007, 01:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,321
| | | According to my wife, I get very "Cranky." That's one of her signs that I need to check my B/G.
When I go very high, above 170/9.4, I just get very tired and have to sleep.
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04-04-2007, 01:37 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Posts: 718
| | | I am worse when I'm high becuse I'm angry. Low yes I do get a little short according to my wife.
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04-04-2007, 01:46 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Land of Oz/Kansas
Posts: 711
| | | Come to think of it, I do get angry when I'm high. And sleepy, very, very, sleepy.
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Kimmy
Type 2
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04-04-2007, 03:24 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beavercreek, OH
Posts: 60
| | WHY DO YOU ASK?!!!!!!
Just kidding....actually, sometimes I do get a little grumpy when I go low....it's kind of funky, though, as I get a little grumpy sometimes, and some other times I get a little goofy according to my wife.
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Ohio
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04-04-2007, 03:31 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Dakota
Posts: 666
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by princesslinda  When i've had the few lows i've had, I've just felt shaky, anxious and hungry, not angry. | 
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04-04-2007, 03:41 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,421
| | Yeh! Whats it to ya??? 
I used to get "short" with my husband when I was low. Now I also get quiet. I also refuse to eat things which drives people NUTS! I hate this, don't want that or I just test, see that I am low (sometimes even say I am low) and then go on about my business. Someone needs to remind me that I should possibly do something about that "low blood sugar" issue.
What can I say? I have never been accused of being smart. |
04-04-2007, 03:43 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Land of Oz/Kansas
Posts: 711
| | LOL Nancy, I've done that before too, when I'm low I'll think, I'm low, and then go on about my business like it didn't even matter that I'm low. A little while later it dawned on me, "I'm LOW!" 
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Type 2
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Started pumping 1/31/07 |
04-04-2007, 04:24 PM
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Posts: 4,696
| | | Last week, I woke after sleeping 3 hours. I didn't feel like I could stand up, so slid out of bed to my knees. I knew something was wrong, but I crawled into this room, where I keep meds and tester. I know it was on my mind that it was weird that I was crawling, but for the life of me couldn't think why I was doing it. I got in here and sitting on the floor, tried to think what it was I needed. My husband was up in the living room watching a DVD, and just followed my progress in amazement, until it dawned on him that something was wrong. He asked me what I needed and I had no idea, but he got the tester out and I was 43. He handed me a couple of glucose tablets and I felt fine in just a few minutes, but was still low. I don't think I would have figured out what was going on, so was lucky Hubby was around.
I think I would rather be mean than confused.
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I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
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04-04-2007, 04:37 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NJ
Posts: 387
| | | You are very lucky, Penny... glad you got through that.
When I'm low, I get dizzy, shaky, wobbly... I usually don't get testy until someone starts asking me questions, as I seem to need all my concentration to get around it.
The wife will attest to this... most nights at dinner if I'm hypo... the family will all be eating, and I'll still be stumbling around, getting my test going and making my salad. If one of the kids jumps in front of me or asks for something from the fridge, I get a bit agitated... It's one of the few times when I really wish this disease was over and I have no need to deal with it anymore.
On the same token, I also feel my diabetes is being blamed for feelings that are unrelated to it. You can't be in a bad mood without someone saying "you better eat something" or "someone hasn't had their insulin" and so on.
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04-04-2007, 05:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,500
| | | I don't get mean, but I try really hard to be rational because I find that I can't deal with anything when I'm low...like people talking to me, or even talking in the same room. I just can't process it all and it gets to be too much really fast. I find that I get irritable really fast when low, though.
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