I’ve also never had to call 911 because of a severe low, although a few weeks ago I was puking and my blood sugar was falling fast and I couldn’t hold any sugar down to bring it up (I had bolused for food only about 10 minutes before I got sick). So we had to call 911 then. And just last week I’ve had my first two lows below 40 in the 13 years I’ve had diabetes. Totally scared the crap out of me–and then of course I ate way too much, ended up high, bolused for the high and ended up low again. Ugh.
Hi Lindsay. I have had the same exact problems. It’s scary to hear it from someone else. In the past when I’ve gotten low blood sugars, I panic and eat too much. Then my blood sugar shoots up high, I take more fast acting insulin, and then another low. It’s a cycle that never ended for me until I started using an insulin pump. I also noticed that I always felt like crap and gained weight with the lows. You should always keep a Glucagon kit with you. Your doctor can prescribe one for you. Maybe an insulin pump would be the way to go? I have no where near the amount of lows that I had before I began using the pump and would find it difficult to go back to shots.
I am exactly the same way as you. In fact, I wasn’t ever worried about “severe lows” until I found this blog and read some people’s stories! I’ve detected every low before it became really bad. Sometimes I’d have a low and wait around to do something about it because I wasn’t worried about it. I even lived alone for a year in a place where no one knew I had diabetes. I felt so confident in catching it in time. Now, I don’t know anymore…
My thing is, I always do a test when I feel “weird”. But there have been times where I didn’t catch it before it got scary low. I had a reading of 28 before!
Hello Rick:
Real freakin lucky would my “short answer”.
Any chance (and you won’t like it btw) you were low at different periods, different incidents in your life and just didn’t know it ???
I envy you, and truth be told… not sure… honestly that I believe its possible… please forgive me
Stuart
Hello Lindsay:
Never “treat” the high silly…
Treat “it” like a major hangover, very, very, very gently. Too agressive and that penduleum swings back at us with some major blessed teeth at NASA speeds…
Fear is the enemy…
Stuart
Stuart unable to supress his laughter … knowing more than one story where “flipping off” was one itty bitty piece of the the bigger story.
Stuart