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08-23-2007, 01:42 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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| | | Weird thing w/ Lows
Hey all,
Think I've seen threads about this before, but kinda weird... yesterday I got home from work, felt shaky etc, you know,. normal low feeling... checked myself 65...
Today, I test, feeling perfectly fine 62.. huh? check again... 60!... weird..
Why do you guys think there's such a difference in feeling between today and yesterday... any thoughts?
thx. |
08-23-2007, 01:55 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: illinois
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| | | hi howdy! i've had the same thing.i tested for my usual 2 hr post prandial and it was 64. and i felt fine.i've also been 65 or 66 and almost passed out on the way to get apple juice. i have no explanation...just another way this stupid disease f*$#% with us...trish
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08-23-2007, 02:00 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
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Originally Posted by howdysf  Hey all,
Think I've seen threads about this before, but kinda weird... yesterday I got home from work, felt shaky etc, you know,. normal low feeling... checked myself 65...
Today, I test, feeling perfectly fine 62.. huh? check again... 60!... weird..
Why do you guys think there's such a difference in feeling between today and yesterday... any thoughts?
thx. | Sometimes it's how fast you got to the low. Did it get that way slowly dropping over the course of a few hours? I feel them more when I plummet quickly. Also, when I'm really busy or involved in something I don't notice until I go to stand up or move on to something else.
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08-23-2007, 02:13 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Baltimore, USA
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| | | Also you're brain senses the blood sugar change more quickly than what is measured in the blood.
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08-23-2007, 02:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Canada, Prince Edward Island
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| | | WEIRD!! i actually had this happen to me today.
And it scares me. Some of the older people with Type 1 that I talk to tell me that as you get older - the more amout of lows you get the more your body will get use to them, and not be able to feel them comin. Normally from 71 to 81 I get shaky - I am in Canada so that is like 4.0 - 4.5 mmol.
Anyway today before lunch I tested and was reading 77 and didn't feel a thing. Kinda scared me.
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08-23-2007, 02:53 PM
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| | | Thats called hypo unawareness i think. Basically if you get hypos very frequently, over time you will sort of lose the feelings you get when you blood sugars are low, meaning you stand an increased risk of having a serious hypo. However, this can be completely reversed by letting your blood glucose levels run a bit high to basically reduce the frequency of your hypos.
Can someone confirm that this is true, i remember hearing about it somewhere, but i cant remember the source |
08-23-2007, 04:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
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| | | I've been there...had low 60's where I felt just fine and low 60's where I felt hypo...for me I really think it's more related to how quickly it's dropped (or still dropping) and how long I've been there. I had a 65 yesterday...I didn't feel hypo, but I didn't feel altogether normal, either (which was why I checked.) I didn't start having any hypo symptoms until AFTER I'd corrected and it was back up to around 77....which I thought was, you know, weird.
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08-23-2007, 05:49 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Waterbury, CT
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| | | It does over time make you unaware of low's
I've been as low as 18 and still do not feel it. Then other times like this morning I was 35 and I fealt it. Weird but eventually over time, your body does become unaware of low's because you've had so many.
However, there will be times you'll feel it and times you won't.
I know its weird but ive had it for so long and it happens to me all the time.
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08-23-2007, 06:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
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Originally Posted by WoNdErFuL MoMmY I've been as low as 18 and still do not feel it. Then other times like this morning I was 35 and I fealt it. Weird but eventually over time, your body does become unaware of low's because you've had so many.
However, there will be times you'll feel it and times you won't.
I know its weird but ive had it for so long and it happens to me all the time. | I think there's at least two levels of unawareness. You lose it over time as your body ages. Those reactions you get when younger are largely due to adrenalin release. As we age are adrenal gland slows and we lose this sensation. Unfortunately I relied too much on this awareness and learned the hard way.
There is also a micro-level of sensation that seems to be affected by frequency, normal levels, and rate of decent. You can improve this awareness by keeping in better control.
It could be you didn't feel it on day 2 because you were low dy 1. This seems to happen to me too. |
08-23-2007, 07:42 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Buffalo, NY
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| | | I agree that it depends how quickly you're dropping. I've had days when I thought I was dying and been like 68 and others when I've felt fine and been 43. |
08-24-2007, 07:26 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dallas, TX
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| | If I'm full and low I don't really mind, but if I'm hungry and low I turn into Satan himself!  |
08-24-2007, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by howdysf Hey all,
Think I've seen threads about this before, but kinda weird... yesterday I got home from work, felt shaky etc, you know,. normal low feeling... checked myself 65...
Today, I test, feeling perfectly fine 62.. huh? check again... 60!... weird..
Why do you guys think there's such a difference in feeling between today and yesterday... any thoughts?
thx. | You also need to remember that all readings from a meter are subject to a margin of uncertainity. |
08-24-2007, 01:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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Originally Posted by Scratch You also need to remember that all readings from a meter are subject to a margin of uncertainity. | yeah, that's why I tested right away a second time... I think the belly full comment might have cleared it up cuz I wasn't hungry when I didn't feel the 60, but I was hungry when I did feel the 65.. |
08-25-2007, 08:02 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Colorado
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| | I was once 36 and didn't know it...
Although I think it was because I was nervous. But the other day I took my glucose before bed and I was in my 60's. I agree with the comment above that states your body get's use to lows.... or maybe your body doesn't want to believe your going through another low so your brain gives you other excuses to feel the way you're feeling? 
...I dunno
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08-25-2007, 08:26 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas
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| | | I took a nap yesterday. Woke up and didn't feel right but did not have enough sense to realize what was wrong until the cold wetness hit. I had eaten something but did not realize what it was. By the time I checked it was 30. Feel sure I had been out for a while. It has been a long time since I have been that bad. I was alone but would not have mattered if my husband had been here. He tells me to do something and if I don't you can forget it. I did get my mail after waking and found some of it in the trash today. |
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