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03-12-2007, 12:16 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 40
| | | cranky when low!
No one seems to get this in my family. I am NOT being a brat, I am not just grumpy, it's because my blood sugar is low! If I could help it, I sure would.
My best friend knows this, she can tell sometimes before me if my sugar is low! haha.
It is quite frustrating though. |
03-12-2007, 12:26 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 1,758
| | When I was little my parents would often test my bloodsugar if I was cranky.
These days, if I'm low and trying to get food or glucose tabs or something, I tend to be all thumbs....but this makes me so frustrated. My husband often ends up having to open the glucose tabs, or get the straw out of the wrapper for my juicebox before I end up in tears or throwing it on the floor. I'm still a cranky diabetic when I'm low. 
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~ Bethany ~
Type 1 since I was 3 (1981) - 26 years now
Pumping as of Sept. 13, 2007 - Paradigm 522 with NovoRapid (Novolog)
(Previously on Levemir and Humalog)
CGMS as of Apr. 2008
Laser treatments (scatter) on both eyes - Jul. 4, 2007-Sept. 12, 2007 |
03-12-2007, 01:04 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 40
| | | Yea my old roommate would be like, I think you should test your sugar Jenn, and she would help me get something because I just couldn't handle it! haha.
It's super frustrating. My patience level completely goes down the drain. |
03-12-2007, 01:46 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Land of Oz/Kansas
Posts: 705
| | I get very cranky and low on patience when I am low too. I tend to sigh real heavily at everything, even worse than usual, I'm a sigher, and have absolutely no patience at all with anything, including food containers, or anything that has plastic wrapping on it, or lifesavers that need to be opened. Glad to know I'm not the only one. 
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Kimmy
Type 2
MM722-Purple of course 
Started pumping 1/31/07 |
03-12-2007, 01:49 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 1,758
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Originally Posted by KritterMom  or anything that has plastic wrapping on it, or lifesavers that need to be opened. | Plastic wrapping is my nemesis even when I'm *not* low. We don't get along.
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~ Bethany ~
Type 1 since I was 3 (1981) - 26 years now
Pumping as of Sept. 13, 2007 - Paradigm 522 with NovoRapid (Novolog)
(Previously on Levemir and Humalog)
CGMS as of Apr. 2008
Laser treatments (scatter) on both eyes - Jul. 4, 2007-Sept. 12, 2007 |
03-12-2007, 02:08 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,576
| | | I'm also like KritterMom..........very cranky and I have NO patience at all. The smallest thing will set me off and I end up snapping at everyone around me.
I really do hate myself when I'm like that!
Karen |
03-12-2007, 02:56 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Michigan
Posts: 665
| | I used to think I got cranky when I was low because I'd get uber pissed. Then I had the islet transplant and found out Amy's just a pain in the booty when she's hungry, cause I still get cranky even when my bs is normal.  go figure. |
03-12-2007, 03:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 816
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Originally Posted by belyro When I was little my parents would often test my bloodsugar if I was cranky. | That has got to be one of the most annoying things about diabetes; if you are genuinely uspet about something and get angry it is really annoying when someone says 'do you need some chocolate?'. It is such a shame that some people cannot allow you emotions that are not to do with diabetes. We do, after all, have all the same chemicals floating around our body as anyone else.
Gary |
03-12-2007, 04:05 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: California
Posts: 95
| | | Funny, I don't get cranky when I am low, I get really weepy and paranoid. Especially if I am out alone shopping. I tend to want to get away from the public eye, and go to my car and eat glucose tabs until I feel better. Plus then I won't feel tempted to pig out on mall food! I always call my husband and tell him I am out and low, and if I don't call back, heres where I am parked. I hate the thought of drawing attention to myself in public.
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03-12-2007, 04:53 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 155
| | | Jenn L-I know exactly what you mean. I was at Krogers once and I went low-couldn't really see-just knew that I had to get out of the store. Tried to go out the in door. Don't know why I can't sit down and tell someone what is going on-but I can't let anyone know that I'm having a problem. Also I seem to be cranky most of the time anymore. It doesn't take much to make me cranky. Maybe it's just me. Beth
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03-12-2007, 05:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 705
| | | My teenage years.
Mom: "Go check your blood sugar."
Me: "No... Why should I?"
Mom: "If it's not low, you're grounded."
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker
T1 18 years
26 years old
Minimed Paradigm 522... yay!
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03-12-2007, 09:18 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 40
| | | LOL that's funny.
I get SO frustrated with lifesaver wrappers when I'm low!!! |
03-12-2007, 09:26 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio
Posts: 87
| | | Oh my goodness! I am so happy I read the posts in here! I am so easy to get along with and always have been, but when low I get very upset, cry, and can't even think. They think I am being mean, except hubby who tells me to test my sugar. I am going to show my family I am not being mean when I am low!
Cia Leah |
03-13-2007, 06:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 32
| | | This is funny. I'm the same way, I want to get out of the public eye and/or I get very cranky. I'm surprised I haven't been fired from work because I can get really pissed. |
03-14-2007, 01:25 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England
Posts: 413
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary_W That has got to be one of the most annoying things about diabetes; if you are genuinely uspet about something and get angry it is really annoying when someone says 'do you need some chocolate?'. It is such a shame that some people cannot allow you emotions that are not to do with diabetes. We do, after all, have all the same chemicals floating around our body as anyone else.
Gary | Agree here gary, it's annoying. It's fairly pointless telling someone you are not low you are just angry/upset/whatever, you get a disbelieving look, like they expect you to prove your not low before taking you seriously. fortunatly this has only happened a couple of times to me.
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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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