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07-29-2006, 12:57 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 26
| | | lowest you have tested?
just curious.....what is the lowest you have tested? i haven't taken a trip to the hospital....yet. i did test once in the middle of the night at 22. it was a little creepy. i felt horrible. i'm wondering how low a person has to get before they pass out? i wonder how close i really was....i don't ever want to get that low again! |
07-29-2006, 12:59 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 40
| | | 52 for me so far. I hope I never see anything lower. |
07-29-2006, 01:06 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The mighty shire. England
Posts: 1,225
| | | Lowest i've ever been was 1.2 (21.5).
was my first ever hypo when i left the hospital, no one told me I could go low like that so soon and so easilly, and no one told me to keep sugar with me... I was constantly told not to eat sugar, but I really needed some then! Only good thing about it was it helped me realise what my hypo symtoms were very early on.
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07-29-2006, 02:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland
Posts: 728
| | | How Low
MarieLea,
I often went low, 1.1mmol was the lowest I remember, I guess around 12 in your readings. I would suggest that you always carry glucose tablets around with you and when you feel you are going low take 3. These are fast acting and I find good. Try to avoid lows as if you have too many you may become what they call hypo- unaware. Take care - Michael |
07-29-2006, 02:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 49
| | | 1.8 (32.4). I usually don't waste time testing when I feel low though. I have my juice/ whatever a.s.a.p. |
07-29-2006, 02:19 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY
Posts: 451
| | | Lowest was 24 back when I was on insulin.
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07-29-2006, 03:48 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,500
| | | 50. And I felt so awful that I don't ever want to go lower than that! |
07-29-2006, 05:02 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hometown: Granger, IN; currently: Bloomington, IN
Posts: 75
| | Mine was 27, in the middle of the night, which wasn't much fun at all. I've also never lost consciousness/passed out/been hospitalized since diagnosis, so I consider my track record to be pretty good 
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07-29-2006, 05:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 7,098
| | | The lowest I have ever tested was 30 (I think). The paramedics have tested me before when unconscious and that reading was 17.
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07-29-2006, 05:16 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 2,371
| | | 28 and I felt fine......I even tested again to make sure it was right and YEP......
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07-29-2006, 05:17 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Elgin, IL
Posts: 209
| | | I've tested as low as 54...not a good feeling at all.
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5/06 A1C 8
9/06 A1C 6.4
ActoplusMet 15/mg/500mg x 2
Levothyroxine 50mcg x1
Pravachol 40mg x 1
Prevacid 30mg x 1
Clonazepam 1mg x1 (for restless leg syndrome, but he seems to think it will help my migraines too)
Lisinopril 10mg x2
(mostly) Healthy diet
Exercise
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07-29-2006, 05:24 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,462
| | | The lowest I tested was 42, and that was just recently. I think I was lower than that once after surgery, but I was just told that it was, did not see it myself.
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8/26/08 A1C 6.4
Cholesterol below 100
BP 114/64
Still anemic
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07-29-2006, 05:25 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
Posts: 4,843
| | | I was once really sick and was tested at a doctors office and got a reading of 7 mg/dL. Don't know if I was sick because I was so low or if I was low because I was sick. Does that count, since it was in a doctor's office in the days before home blood glucose meters? I'll have to look through my records to see what the lowest at home test was.
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07-29-2006, 07:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,667
| | | Lowest was the other day at 46. Scared me because it was the first time I didn't feel a hypo. I only tested because the cat was scratching at my legs... |
07-29-2006, 07:40 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,835
| | | 34 for me, couple times in the 30's... I've never passed out due to a low, knock on wood! |
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