Something I have been struggling with this winter in Seattle (as well as last winter, when I was diagnosed with type 1), is extreme hypoglycemia unawareness. I can go as low as 30, but more regularly I catch it around 60. This is very unusual for me, as I am generally very sensitive and start feeling hypo at 90!! When it is cold outside, I literally can’t tell-even if I am warm. Does anyone else have this experience? Can anyone offer up scientific reasons why it may be true? It’s scary! The thought of being stuck out there in the snow with no one around and not being able to sense my low BS is, well, don’t want to even think about it.
So your symptoms are being HIDDEN by the sensations caused by exposure to the cold weather?! What OTHER symptoms do you have which are not weather dependent?
The heat or flushing in your face, the fingers tingling may be typical signs for you of a low... what else do you have which wont be effected by prolonged exposure to cold weather?
Do not be caught without a couple big tubes of icing in your pocket! Don't be without your bottle of soda in your fanny pack... its not "scary": if you dont let it be.
It seems not so much that they are being hidden, as overridden by the lack of sensation that is a byproduct of cold weather. I generally do always have sugar on hand, and if I don't, I sure pay for it.
