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View Poll Results: Has anyone NOT lost consciousness due to a hypoglycemic reaction? | |
Yes: I meet the criteria and have never had my lights turned out!
|    | 35 | 62.50% | |
No: I have been 'knocked out' by a hypo
|    | 21 | 37.50% |
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04-19-2006, 05:56 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Quinte, Ont. Canada
Posts: 126
| |  Has anyone NOT lost consciousness due to Hypo?
Please READ criteria before responding.
In view of Tokyo Cate's rough adventure... ...is there anyone out there that HAS:
(1) well lets start with at least 10yrs experience with insulin AND
(2) has NEVER lost consciousness as the result of hypoglycemia?
( I guess I am thinking that us types 1 are more prone to this kind of adventure, as time moves along).
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04-19-2006, 06:36 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Grove City Ohio
Posts: 2,116
| | | Well I did vote, but I have only been on Insulin for about 6 years or so. However I have never lost consciousness due to a hypo.
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04-19-2006, 06:42 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 599
| | 10+ years on insulin. Never lost consciousness; never seized or convulsed; never had 911 called; lowest BG 32. Too much info? 
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04-19-2006, 06:54 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,300
| | | Depends on what you consider losing consciousness. In 23+ years of insulin I have been taken to the ER numerous times for having convulsions from insulin shock. My last one was about 4 years ago but I was with my mom and so it didn't get severe enough that I fell on the ground. But in high school I'd say I had about 5 of them, with I know 3 resulting in ambulance rides, most during my last 2 years.
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04-19-2006, 07:27 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
Posts: 3,058
| | | 8 years. Lowest recorded BG: 1.7mmol/l. Worst effect: Rather hungry.
I've just been really lucky I guess. |
04-19-2006, 08:45 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 6,945
| | | 20 years on insulin. Never knocked out, no convulsions and always able to treat myself. My husband has done a few food runs for me. I feel very fortunate. Lowest my blood sugar has ever been on my meter was 23. |
04-19-2006, 08:49 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
Posts: 3,058
| | | Good to see you're living up to your name! |
04-19-2006, 08:56 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Posts: 131
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Originally Posted by DeusXM Good to see you're living up to your name! | Been on insulin for 10 years and a bit now. Lost conciousness only twice and once it resulted in a nasty accident, another time I passed out in my office and they found me on the floor. |
04-19-2006, 09:10 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northern Utah
Posts: 842
| | I have only lost consciousness once after being T1 for 11 years (next week!). I'm not sure how low I was, but I'll tell my story.
I was in Utah with a friend of mine, Kory, and we were driving back to Vegas which is where Kory lived and where I would be flying back to Minnesota from. We had skipped breakfast, and it was well past lunch time ( I realize my error, don't worry....  ), and so we stopped at a Subway to have some food. Well, we were in the line deciding what to order and such. When I got to the checkout, the room starting getting blue, and I couldn't breathe, and eventually passed out. When I came to, I ate a footlong sub, and some chips and it only brought my bg up to 155. Makes me wonder how low I was.....
Well, that's my story! I haven't passed out again since, and I hope I don't again.
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04-19-2006, 09:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Posts: 131
| | I forgot to say. I dont know how low I was when I passed out. On the day of my accident, I tested about an hour earlier and was 5.2 (still remember vividly) I remember about 35-40 minutes of my drive. After that all I remember is waking up under a bridge with a bleeding GF and a nasty accident site. That will remain with me forever 
I normally start getting sick at anything below 2.5, but once I tested 1.8 and was still feeling ok. so yeah, confusion all around. Firstly how the **** did I manage to go from 5.2 to passing out in 35 minutes? well it was around 2am, my last injection was at 18:00 the previous evening, and I had a fairly good meal. After that we went to a new year's party, I forgot to take any fruits along to keep my BG up, so I only managed to keep it up using sugar and soft drinks, no solid food. |
04-19-2006, 09:32 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hometown: Granger, IN; currently: Bloomington, IN
Posts: 75
| | | Almost 14 years and no blackouts, seizures, or trips to the ER. There was only one time when I woke up very disoriented and needed help to treat my low. I have gone pretty low though; I think the "record" is 27. But always conscious!
-Maggie
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04-19-2006, 10:01 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 190
| | | Great Topic! I have been type 1 for 18 years -- and have passed out/seized and either had the paramedics at my house or ended up in the ER 11 times. I actually ended up in the ER 2weeks after starting my pump. : ( The last time was May 12, and I am so hopeful that this will never happen again. Does anyone else get that unbelievably horrible headache after they come to???
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04-19-2006, 10:51 AM
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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: 4,299
| | | In the 1st year or 2, I came very close, but not lately...........smarter, I guess.
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04-19-2006, 11:14 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia River Gorge
Posts: 1,139
| | | I have been on insulin 12+ years. I meet all the criteria, and voted. But I am type 2.
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04-19-2006, 11:16 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 1,043
| | | You always hear about the bad episodes people have, but it's great to see that there are those of us who haven't lost consciousness or seized or anything.
I passed the 14 year mark a few months ago and have never lost consciousness, never seized and never been to the hospital/ED for any reason due to my diabetes (or for anything else for that matter). There was one close call a few years ago when my Lantus dose wasn't right and I woke up very loopy but since I was sleeping, had I then lost consciousness while sleeping and come to or did I just wake up? I'm not sure. I just know my dad was ready to call 999. Anyway, I feel pretty fortunate for my 14 years. Lowest bg reading has been 30.
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