Last night I had a serious hypoglycemic episode. My only available help was my 8 yo granddaughter.
When I’m hypo-I don’t have the sense God gave a duck.
She gave me a jug!! Of juice. When I told her I needed a cup, she said “No, Nana-just drink out of the jug!”
I did, while she took my bs. It was 38. (Had seizure @ 46 a wk ago.
She was awesome…
Yes, you do have an awesome grandchild. She not only delivered the jug of OJ but also appropriately negotiated the social hurdle of your unneeded cup request. And she took your blood sugar reading. That is amazing!
Sorry to bring up a sore topic, but what are you doing to stop this dangerous trend of seriously low hypos? You’ve reported several of them here. You need to take some significant action to stop this from recurring. I’m sure you’re painfully aware of this but please review, analyze, conclude, and take action. I would definitely engage your doctor with this issue right now.
You do want to enjoy more of your hero-grandaughter’s future!
I have to agree with Terry. It’s terrific that you have a good support system. Nonetheless this is starting to look like a pattern, and flirting with lows is just a form of Russian Roulette—each time it happens there is the possibility of a really unsatisfactory outcome. There’s no way to know how many times you’ll be able to dodge the bullet before you run out of luck. You need to determine why this is happening and take appropriate action.
What a wonderful little nurse you have in your granddaughter. She should be mighty proud of herself.
Like you, I tend to go through streaks where I have a lot of hypos. And when one’s had a lot of recent hypos, the level at which one can detect them lowers to a point where they can become more and more dangerous before one gets symptoms.
When I was going through a period with a series of lows a few years ago, my endo mentioned that there had been one study where they had kept people who were hypo-unaware from going lower than BG 120 for something like three weeks and that restored their ability to detect hypos at a more normal level. Well, I wasn’t about to set my minimum BG at 120, but I could make enough changes including testing more often so I could avoid hypos entirely for at least a couple of weeks. I’ve done that a couple of times now and it restored my hypo awareness to a level in the 60s.
I know that for the truly hypo unaware people where the nerves have been damaged, this won’t work, but my guess is that most of us who are pushing our luck on the low BG end can probably get our awareness level back to closer to normal this way. I don’t recall if you said you are completely hypo unaware or if you are like the majority of us where the awareness can come and go. I do hope that you’ll be able to find some way to avoid these episodes, which must be frightening and frustrating to you.
I want Dexcom data. If no Dexcom, then hourly BG/meal data. This needs analysis. Warning: Whatever you post, I will say that your data is not complete enough, LOL. Give us the data and let us fight it out between one another, if possible. The conversation is an important one. People with chronic illness have a duty to protect the people around them by doing their very best to take care of themselves. (This is a conversation I had with my very best friend all this week). In your case, this means hourly blood sugars and a discussion about the data patterns, at the very least. If we aren’t discussing the numbers, then our discussions are fairly meaningless and won’t be that helpful. This is a numbers game. Please don’t be a wallflower. Your playing solitaire with a deck of 51. Wall flower song