Re: Changing Symptoms of Hypoglycemia
- From: "Maggie" <mmoelle1@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:43:08 GMT
"James" <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When I was a new diabetic, I would get all the classic symptoms of
> hypoglycemic: sweaty, shaky, and real real hungry.
>
> I now find that I no longer experience those symptoms.
>
> These days when I get hypo, usually I feel "heady", like I have a good
> beer
> buzz. Sometimes my lips tingle. Sometimes I feel very tired, like I need
> to lay down and go to sleep immediately. I have never experienced an
> actual
> loss of consciousness from a hypo.
>
> When I experience a low when I am asleep, I usually am awoken by a
> nightmare, and I find that I am too restless to go back to sleep. When
> this
> happens, I know I need to get up and test. I am always low when this
> happens.
>
> If I get extremely low, I experience a "mental shutdown"... I can't think
> straight, things seem to go in slow motion, and I have trouble forming
> thoughts. It reminds me of the way I felt the times I tried smoking
> marijuana, I feel really dumb and when people ask me questions I find that
> I
> cannot answer them. Fortunately, this has only happened a couple of
> times,
> it is a bit scary. In the end, a mild panic takes over and I just feel
> compelled to eat. It's weird, the second the food hits my mouth, I begin
> to
> think clearly again. I know there hasn't been enough time for the food to
> actually affect me, it's like my body goes into an extreme conservation
> mode, and the second my brain realizes it is getting fed, it goes back to
> normal mode. The human body is an amazing thing.
>
> The last time this happened to me, I had a bad vial of test strips. I
> tested high (300), I said "WTF?", I shot 4 units, and I waited. About an
> hour later, I experienced the "shutdown". I ate something, cross checked
> on
> different meter with different strips, and I got a reading of 36. I ran
> another test with the bad strips, got a reading of 147. I tried a new
> vial
> of strips and got a reading of 45. I phoned Lifescan a bit cross and they
> sent me a replacement vial.
>
> As always, YMMV.
>
>
>
>
>
>
Hi James,
I just posted here a few days ago about same problem with my Lifescan meter
("Read here a lot, but don't post much" ) . I was in ER 3 times before I
quality-checked my meter and found that my reading was 40 over the hospital
meter. Mine read 134 and the hospital's read 94 (that was after I drank a
can of grape juice) I also thought I had a box of bad strips but not sure.
Mack suggested I should also check my batteries which I don't usually do,
but will.
The funny thing is, my Dr. gave me a new Precision Xtra meter and Lifescan
replaced my One Touch and the one of the One Touch readings was still 30
higher than the Precision. I am comparing every Bg I take for a while.
Hope your readings are back to normal,
Good Luck,
Maggie
Lantus & Novolog
.
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