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06-10-2007, 05:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kapiti, New Zealand
Posts: 797
| | | Do you remember your first hypo?
My first hypo is clear as a bell in my memory - well as clear as it can be considering it was years ago and late at night 
It was my first day on insulin - the day I discovered that even the low dose my DE nurse always started people on was a little too much for me. (Not any more!)
I was just drifting off to sleep when I felt my heart beat speed up. I felt weird but was trying so hard not to worry about lows that I didn't check for a while, I thought I was being paranoid! When I did check I was either 3.4 or 3.6, I had a munch on chocolate (not the best hypo food!) and followed up with a marmite sandwich that a friend made for me - my DE nurse had instructed me to do that, but I've learnt a lot since then! That sandwich is still to date the BEST sammie I've tasted, EVER!
These days I just grab a lolly or whatever and go on with my day, back then a hypo was big news and kinda scary!
Do you remember yours? Is it one of those memorable moments in life?
__________________ .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., Em Taking on diabetes one meal at a time. It wins the odd battle but I'm winning the war.
Addicted to my Lantus, Novorapid and medicinal chocolate *cough* .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., |
06-10-2007, 05:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,027
| | | Nope. I was in the hospital, but I don't remember it. |
06-10-2007, 06:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,855
| | | Ya I do:middle of the night, shaking, sweating. That glass of frozen OJ in our old Amana fridge with the big freezer on the bottom never tasted so good. |
06-10-2007, 06:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,500
| | | Definately! It was early morning, I was sleeping, and I remember being sort of semi-conscious and thinking that I was dying...and how easy it would be to just slip over to the other side. I remember that it seemed to take all of the energy I could muster to bring myself awake.
I had no idea what was wrong with me, I'd only been on insulin for about a week. My husband suggested I check my b/s after I told him how I felt. 43. The same thing happened two more times before they decided I was taking too much lantus.
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Incorrectly dx'ed type 2 7/00 
Correctly dx'ed type 1 5/01
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Lantus 2x daily & Humalog
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06-10-2007, 06:50 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 543
| | | I recall it vaguely, but at the time, I had no idea what it was. Thought I had an upset tummy.
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06-10-2007, 08:24 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,481
| | | Over 40 years ago....I was in the hospital, waiting to have a C-section. I thought I was losing the baby and the nurse told me I was just "going hypo", said my Bs was under 40. Don't remember much after that, though.
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8/26/08 A1C 6.4
Cholesterol below 100
BP 114/64
Still anemic
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06-10-2007, 08:36 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Do Dah, OZ, aka Kansas
Posts: 4,543
| | | Yeah, but it was a dream. Does that count? |
06-10-2007, 08:49 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Australia, Melbourne
Posts: 232
| | | Yep, it was during the night.
Woke up really sweaty (like I had just got out of the shower), weak, had trouble getting myself up and out of the bed.
Eventually rolled myself out of the bed, crawled (yeah I crawled, don't laugh-didn't have the strength to stand) to the kitchen had a couple of teaspoons of honey, glass of lemonade and a salada/dry biscuit.
Was 1.7 or 1.8 (30 / 32), can't remember now and woke up at 11.X - would have been worse off if I did that and wasn't honeymooning.
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Last edited by blue eyes : 06-10-2007 at 08:50 PM.
Reason: spelling
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06-11-2007, 01:08 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England
Posts: 413
| | | I can remember a few hypos from when i was on gliclazide. my first on insulin was about a week after i started it. i was moving house and just cleaning the empty flat. I had been running around and been quite active, i suddenly felt like my legs were made of jelly, i can't remember exactly what i tested 3.something. i drank 500mls lucozade, i then sat on the floor for about 30 minutes to recover.
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type: MODY 3
diagnosed: feb 2000
using: lantus and novorapid
last Hba1c: 5.7% July 2007
previous HbA1c:5.6% April 2007
previous HbA1c: 6.2% Febuary 2007
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06-11-2007, 03:08 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bethel, Ct
Posts: 75
| | | I don't remember my first but I remember all the rest. Either it wakes me up or I have it a daytime. I get a bright (like the sun) spot in the middle of my eyes and I feel like I am going to pass out. I have a lot of trouble seeing my meter when this happens. Does this happen to anyone else?
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06-11-2007, 04:43 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,906
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Originally Posted by Lynne59  I get a bright (like the sun) spot in the middle of my eyes and I feel like I am going to pass out. | Yes Lynne, I did and that bright light is the same reaction that i get when low!!  So who needs a meter but then i have had a low when i was 13 and that was in 1974 and a meter is a luxury that i did not have. Now it's a necessity and test nearly every 2 hours or so. My mom & dad were in a panic and i was weak and angry!!! |
06-11-2007, 11:25 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 283
| | Dont laugh, but my "hypo" was a 103..... I guess a 103 after a 13% A1c diagnosis really is a hypo to your brain at the time! Had the profuse sweating, and everything. Cant remember the real 1st hypo though, wasnt quite as scary as feeling low when you are normal and not knowing what the heck to do.  |
06-13-2007, 05:31 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: TX
Posts: 104
| | | question
I am a type 2 and usually go into the t2 forums but I was curious about what a type 1.5 is. I know type1 is when you don't produce insulin but what is 1.5?
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4-16-07 A1C=5.2
10-4-07 A1C=5.4
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06-13-2007, 06:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kapiti, New Zealand
Posts: 797
| | | 1.5 is a form of type 1 that generally comes on at a later age. It's a little slower than T1 - where T1s fairly quickly lose their ability to produce insulin, 1.5s can take a year, sometimes longer. They look like T2s to start with (tho often aren't overweight - however some T2s aren't either so it's hard to tell!).
They don't respond to diet changes or medications for long, even though it may look like they do in that first year or so when they're honeymooning and their pancreas is working here & there.
1.5 is more technically called LADA - Latent Auto-immune Diabetes in Adults. They will always need insulin, just like T1s.
__________________ .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., Em Taking on diabetes one meal at a time. It wins the odd battle but I'm winning the war.
Addicted to my Lantus, Novorapid and medicinal chocolate *cough* .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., |
06-13-2007, 09:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Auckland
Posts: 272
| | | TO be honest, my first hypo was when it was discovered I had nessidioblastosis. My pancreas produced too much insulin for three months before the figured it out. I went very low in a school assembly and I fell off my chair. I also remember 'dreams' from this period of being really hungry and my mum feeding me a banana and having the taste in my mouth for AGES |
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