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Back and in for today. Got 3 t-shirts at a local thrift store but I will have to wash the Frebreeze out of them before I wear them. Good thing tomorrow is laundry day.

First slurpee of the summer sitting on tv tray. My treat for today.

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I don't even want to know how much insulin I'd have to shoot up for a Slurpee.

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It was very good and I only get a small one. Then I only do it on a really hot day. Too much sugar and heat isn't good for me.

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Back and in for today. Got 3 t-shirts at a local thrift store but I will have to wash the Frebreeze out of them before I wear them. Good thing tomorrow is laundry day.

First slurpee of the summer sitting on tv tray. My treat for today.

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I don't even want to know how much insulin I'd have to shoot up for a Slurpee.

Was it good?

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It was very good and I only get a small one. Then I only do it on a really hot day. Too much sugar and heat isn't good for me.

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I hear ya.

I was one of the lucky ones when I got diabetes. I don't know what happened because I loved candy when I was a kid, but I started having an aversion to sweet stuff in general by my mid-20's. So the hardest thing I had to get used to was limiting the amount of potato chips and never eating french fries again, period.

Once I quit drinking soda maybe a decade ago, I don't really eat or drink anything sweet unless I'm eating somewhere else and I don't want to be rude when desert comes out and then I'll have a little bit of it. The last sweet thing I ate was homemade ice cream my friend's daughter made with her mom for Superbowl. I had actually forgot to eat any because my numbers were a little high when they brought it out and I felt terrible about it. But when I came back a few days later I told her how bad I felt and that I wanted some and she got real excited and got it for me.

It was actually really good and not too sweet.

I remember loving slurpees and snow cones when I was kid. I couldn't even imagine having one today.



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Back and in for today. Got 3 t-shirts at a local thrift store but I will have to wash the Frebreeze out of them before I wear them. Good thing tomorrow is laundry day.

First slurpee of the summer sitting on tv tray. My treat for today.

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I don't even want to know how much insulin I'd have to shoot up for a Slurpee.

Was it good?

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It was very good and I only get a small one. Then I only do it on a really hot day. Too much sugar and heat isn't good for me.

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I hear ya.

I was one of the lucky ones when I got diabetes. I don't know what happened because I loved candy when I was a kid, but I started having an aversion to sweet stuff in general by my mid-20's. So the hardest thing I had to get used to was limiting the amount of potato chips and never eating french fries again, period.

Once I quit drinking soda maybe a decade ago, I don't really eat or drink anything sweet unless I'm eating somewhere else and I don't want to be rude when desert comes out and then I'll have a little bit of it. The last sweet thing I ate was homemade ice cream my friend's daughter made with her mom for Superbowl. I had actually forgot to eat any because my numbers were a little high when they brought it out and I felt terrible about it. But when I came back a few days later I told her how bad I felt and that I wanted some and she got real excited and got it for me.

It was actually really good and not too sweet.

I remember loving slurpees and snow cones when I was kid. I couldn't even imagine having one today.



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Funny thing is I have never had a real sweet tooth. I ate a little bit of candy growing up and popsicles along with ice cream. I drank pop then and now. Of course sugar in my coffee or tea but other than that. I don't really eat that much sugar. Cereal, I always read the labels to see how much sugar there is. So there are really only two cereals I buy. Spoon-sized Shredded wheat and Shreddies. Spoon size has no sugar and there is very little in the Shreddies.

I eat tomato sauce with no sugar in it when I am using it for making my supper.

I use raw sugar in my coffee in the morning and keep white sugar on hand for baking and a little on cereal.

Though, I do like my ice cream now. I admit to that. And some chocolate but usually dark.

Since I am the other end of the scale from you having low blood sugar, I am walking a line as well. Too much sugar could make me a diabetic and I know this very well.

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Back and in for today. Got 3 t-shirts at a local thrift store but I will have to wash the Frebreeze out of them before I wear them. Good thing tomorrow is laundry day.

First slurpee of the summer sitting on tv tray. My treat for today.

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I don't even want to know how much insulin I'd have to shoot up for a Slurpee.

Was it good?

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It was very good and I only get a small one. Then I only do it on a really hot day. Too much sugar and heat isn't good for me.

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I hear ya.

I was one of the lucky ones when I got diabetes. I don't know what happened because I loved candy when I was a kid, but I started having an aversion to sweet stuff in general by my mid-20's. So the hardest thing I had to get used to was limiting the amount of potato chips and never eating french fries again, period.

Once I quit drinking soda maybe a decade ago, I don't really eat or drink anything sweet unless I'm eating somewhere else and I don't want to be rude when desert comes out and then I'll have a little bit of it. The last sweet thing I ate was homemade ice cream my friend's daughter made with her mom for Superbowl. I had actually forgot to eat any because my numbers were a little high when they brought it out and I felt terrible about it. But when I came back a few days later I told her how bad I felt and that I wanted some and she got real excited and got it for me.

It was actually really good and not too sweet.

I remember loving slurpees and snow cones when I was kid. I couldn't even imagine having one today.



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Funny thing is I have never had a real sweet tooth. I ate a little bit of candy growing up and popsicles along with ice cream. I drank pop then and now. Of course sugar in my coffee or tea but other than that. I don't really eat that much sugar. Cereal, I always read the labels to see how much sugar there is. So there are really only two cereals I buy. Spoon-sized Shredded wheat and Shreddies. Spoon size has no sugar and there is very little in the Shreddies.

I eat tomato sauce with no sugar in it when I am using it for making my supper.

I use raw sugar in my coffee in the morning and keep white sugar on hand for baking and a little on cereal.

Though, I do like my ice cream now. I admit to that. And some chocolate but usually dark.

Since I am the other end of the scale from you having low blood sugar, I am walking a line as well. Too much sugar could make me a diabetic and I know this very well.

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I forgot about your low blood sugar...

Do you have to finger prick for that? Can you tell if you're going low?

It's still very evident to me if I'm crashing fast, or if it was a slow crawl down to the low territory and I'm in the 50's. There have been several occasions where I was below 40 according to the CGM that won't even display anything other than "LOW" if you go below 40. When that happens, my entire body gets super hot and I sweat profusely, even in the winter when the temperature in my house is very cool. Twice, it has actually affected my vision, and I start seeing what I could only describe as "sun spots". It starts as just a little pin prick in my vision, but eventually gets larger, right in the center of the field of vision for both eyes and doesn't go away until I get my sugar back up to around 45.

This is very rare, but my doctor told me he wanted me to keep my numbers higher and I don't have to be so anal about keeping them low all the time. The occasional 200+ hardly does any accumulative damage over the years when you maintain a good number the rest of the time, but the lows can be immediately dangerous, especially if I was driving a car at the time. Fortunately, the only time I seem to go that low is overnight when I'm sleeping and I don't have total control over things. It's easy to manage during the day when I'm awake.

My doctor is concerned that if I keep going that low, even on rare occasion like I'm doing now, that eventually my body would stop telling me that I'm low. I guess that's a real possibility and a lot of Type 1 Diabetics who've lived with it their entire lives have to rely 100% on tech to let them know when they're low since their body stopped telling them about it a long time ago.

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No, I don't prick my finger and do a blood test on a strip. After all these years, I know as I can feel when it is starting to go low. When it is going low I can start having a sick feeling in my stomach and sometimes my hands will start shaking. If it is really bad my temper can get the better of me and I don't mean it, it's just that my brain isn't working really properly as sugar keeps it steady.

Here's a story from years ago when my mom was still alive. We were in a store looking around and she noticed that I was walking strange. She came over to me and told me what she was seeing. "Walking like I was drunk" was her phrasing. I told her I wasn't feeling good and I needed to eat something. So we quickly left the store and went to a restaurant. I ate a small bowl of soup, a bowl of spaghetti with meat sauce and had desert along with a small pepsi. Then I started feeling better. It was enough for us to walk home. But as soon as I got in, I ate half a bun with peanut butter on it and drank another glass of pepsi. Then my blood sugar really stablized.

So, when I am out now. I make sure to keep nibbling all day. I eat granola bars while I am playing mah jong and I will have lunch before that. Think I am going to treat myself to a hamburger today. I'll stop for a cup of coffee before I do much else when I am out.

Low blood sugar is all controlled with diet.

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We had an insulin dependent diabetic office assistant. At the time she has to do insulin the old fashioned way.

But what she would do is eat a b'fast of granola or yogurt and OJ, and inject insulin based on THAT meal. So the easy-digested sugar would peak and then drop ... and drop ... and drop. We had to rescue her when she got glassy eyed and started slurring her words, and if we couldn't persuade her to drink some OJ or eat some PB&J we had to call 911.

SIX, I'm sure you'll know what this means ... I was there when the EMTs showed up, and they tested her blood sugar at 20 (!!!). But by then, she was almost unconscious.

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I used to get hypoglycemic too. Like you, BRENDA, when it got too low my temper would flare. And when it did, a part of me would KNOW I was being unreasonable but there was nothing I could do about it.

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No, I don't prick my finger and do a blood test on a strip. After all these years, I know as I can feel when it is starting to go low. When it is going low I can start having a sick feeling in my stomach and sometimes my hands will start shaking. If it is really bad my temper can get the better of me and I don't mean it, it's just that my brain isn't working really properly as sugar keeps it steady.

Here's a story from years ago when my mom was still alive. We were in a store looking around and she noticed that I was walking strange. She came over to me and told me what she was seeing. "Walking like I was drunk" was her phrasing. I told her I wasn't feeling good and I needed to eat something. So we quickly left the store and went to a restaurant. I ate a small bowl of soup, a bowl of spaghetti with meat sauce and had desert along with a small pepsi. Then I started feeling better. It was enough for us to walk home. But as soon as I got in, I ate half a bun with peanut butter on it and drank another glass of pepsi. Then my blood sugar really stablized.

So, when I am out now. I make sure to keep nibbling all day. I eat granola bars while I am playing mah jong and I will have lunch before that. Think I am going to treat myself to a hamburger today. I'll stop for a cup of coffee before I do much else when I am out.

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So was that from before when you knew this was a problem? I could imagine that being scary for both of you.

I know about the "drunk" thing. I've been on the phone with people from time to time and I'll stop mid-sentence and say that my sugar is low. I can tell sometimes because even if I didn't get any other warnings it feels as though I'm having a hard time putting together a coherent thought, as if I were drunk.

I always keep a bottle of my glucose tablets on hand in case I need them. They come with me wherever I go.

But when I do go low, it's my own fault. The way my body works now it would never dip under 200 and would always be between 200 and 600 if left to its own devices. When I go low it's because I either counted my carbs wrong and gave too much insulin, or because I had a productive day where I did a lot of physical work and I wasn't paying attention to my numbers and lowering my basal drip accordingly.

Sometimes I go an entire month without taking a glucose tab. But then there are months like this past one where I took 60 tablets. It's hard to gauge my needs sometimes, since it has a lot to do with predictions... and you can't "fix" anything right away when it goes too low or too high. If you use too much insulin after the fact to try to bring yourself back down, then you crash hard and if you stop the insulin and eat sugar to bring it back up, it can spike real high.

I've learned you just have to make smaller and slower corrections when one of these events happen. It's not the end of the world if you get too high or too low, and it's better to fix it the slow and steady route after the fact, otherwise you get yourself on a pretty nasty roller coaster.

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We had an insulin dependent diabetic office assistant. At the time she has to do insulin the old fashioned way.

But what she would do is eat a b'fast of granola or yogurt and OJ, and inject insulin based on THAT meal. So the easy-digested sugar would peak and then drop ... and drop ... and drop. We had to rescue her when she got glassy eyed and started slurring her words, and if we couldn't persuade her to drink some OJ or eat some PB&J we had to call 911.

SIX, I'm sure you'll know what this means ... I was there when the EMTs showed up, and they tested her blood sugar at 20 (!!!). But by then, she was almost unconscious.

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I used to get hypoglycemic too. Like you, BRENDA, when it got too low my temper would flare. And when it did, a part of me would KNOW I was being unreasonable but there was nothing I could do about it.

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I bet. I've never been low out in public or when company was around, so if I were walking funny nobody was there to tell me about it. My speech falters when I'm on the phone though and I even maybe stutter a bit even though I've never stuttered in my life. Hard to explain.

But seeing a kid do that, and your own kid. The parents of diabetic kids seem to teach them right though, because with all the people who have diabetes, I can't recall ever seeing anybody faltering or feinting in public from low blood sugar. I'm sure it happens, but with how easy it would be to do it to yourself when you've got insulin, I'm surprised you don't hear about it all the time.

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I sort of diagnosed myself as I could feel I had some sort of problem with my sugar and oddly enough I was watching an old episode of Quincy where a race driver had been killed with poison but he always kept peanut butter and crackers around or OJ. I said to my mom that sounds like me. Then I got sick and went to my doctor who sent me for lab work. I had picked up an infection and the blood sugar thing turned up in the lab work. It was like 4 and mine is suppose to be around 6 even way back then. She asked me if I had breakfast and I said yes but I didn't tell her that I had also had lunch but obviously with infection it wasn't enough. So I explained my symptoms to her, then she basically told me I was hypoglycemic and to keep nibbling through out the day.

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Yeah, the brain needs a certain amount of sugar to function properly. When mine goes too low I have a hard time thinking and that is usually when my hands start to shake.

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Oh yeah... the shaking hands too. Strangely, I believe that only one of mine shake though. Couldn't tell you which one now. And even with all the coffee I drink, I'm not normally shaky.

That slow brain feeling sucks, doesn't it? I'll be in the middle of a conversation when it happens and all the sudden it's like the train got completely derailed. One time, I forgot what I was talking about mid-sentence. I just said to hold tight while I got a glucose tab and check my numbers. At that point I want to keep them on the phone long enough for us to know I wasn't going to pass out. Not really worried about that anymore, but that brain in molasses feeling ain't no joke.

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I had it happen once when I was at work. And it was because I missed a mid morning snack. Usually she leaves me a banana or if not I will have a granola bar. That day by the end I wasn't feeling so hot and I told her this. It took me a bit to convince her to give me a ride back near my place and I ate a granola bar, so by the time I actually got into my place I was feeling a bit better. That happened last year I think.

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Yeah. I don't go anywhere without the bottle of glucose. So even if I pack some food along it always comes with me out of habit. They work quick, they're easy to store and carry with you and especially when you don't want to eat at that time it's just a great way to get your sugar up without resorting to actual food.

I haven't had to deal with work yet. That's an inevitable part of my future, working with the diabetes. At least with the tech do-dads I could probably get away with nobody even knowing I was diabetic if I didn't screw it up.

I really feel for you though. You don't have diabetes, but you still have a condition that somewhat mirrors the worst part of diabetes. At least the most immediately dangerous part of it. But you know what you're doing.

I could never have empathized with you about it until I experienced it for myself.

Solidarity.

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My problem can as far as I know only be fixed with diet. Peanut butter is a great thing to keep on hand for me and some pop when I am in my place. When out like I said granola bars and making sure I get at least one coffee then eat lunch when I am out. Once home I will have a snack of something around 2pm, then supper, then there are my seizure meds around 9:30pm, then a snack around 11pm. Rinse and repeat the next day.

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We had an insulin dependent diabetic office assistant. At the time she has to do insulin the old fashioned way.

But what she would do is eat a b'fast of granola or yogurt and OJ, and inject insulin based on THAT meal. So the easy-digested sugar would peak and then drop ... and drop ... and drop. We had to rescue her when she got glassy eyed and started slurring her words, and if we couldn't persuade her to drink some OJ or eat some PB&J we had to call 911.

SIX, I'm sure you'll know what this means ... I was there when the EMTs showed up, and they tested her blood sugar at 20 (!!!). But by then, she was almost unconscious.

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I used to get hypoglycemic too. Like you, BRENDA, when it got too low my temper would flare. And when it did, a part of me would KNOW I was being unreasonable but there was nothing I could do about it.

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Yup, been there numerous times and had people look at me. People I know. I've had to apologize and then explain what was going on. Yeah, you always know you are being unreasonable but not thing one you can really do about it.

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Think it was after I was diagnosed but it was the first time my mom had seen it and it did scare her for sure.

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I bet. I've never been low out in public or when company was around, so if I were walking funny nobody was there to tell me about it. My speech falters when I'm on the phone though and I even maybe stutter a bit even though I've never stuttered in my life. Hard to explain.

But seeing a kid do that, and your own kid. The parents of diabetic kids seem to teach them right though, because with all the people who have diabetes, I can't recall ever seeing anybody faltering or feinting in public from low blood sugar. I'm sure it happens, but with how easy it would be to do it to yourself when you've got insulin, I'm surprised you don't hear about it all the time.

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I sort of diagnosed myself as I could feel I had some sort of problem with my sugar and oddly enough I was watching an old episode of Quincy where a race driver had been killed with poison but he always kept peanut butter and crackers around or OJ. I said to my mom that sounds like me. Then I got sick and went to my doctor who sent me for lab work. I had picked up an infection and the blood sugar thing turned up in the lab work. It was like 4 and mine is suppose to be around 6 even way back then. She asked me if I had breakfast and I said yes but I didn't tell her that I had also had lunch but obviously with infection it wasn't enough. So I explained my symptoms to her, then she basically told me I was hypoglycemic and to keep nibbling through out the day.

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Yeah, the brain needs a certain amount of sugar to function properly. When mine goes too low I have a hard time thinking and that is usually when my hands start to shake.

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Oh yeah... the shaking hands too. Strangely, I believe that only one of mine shake though. Couldn't tell you which one now. And even with all the coffee I drink, I'm not normally shaky.

That slow brain feeling sucks, doesn't it? I'll be in the middle of a conversation when it happens and all the sudden it's like the train got completely derailed. One time, I forgot what I was talking about mid-sentence. I just said to hold tight while I got a glucose tab and check my numbers. At that point I want to keep them on the phone long enough for us to know I wasn't going to pass out. Not really worried about that anymore, but that brain in molasses feeling ain't no joke.

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I had it happen once when I was at work. And it was because I missed a mid morning snack. Usually she leaves me a banana or if not I will have a granola bar. That day by the end I wasn't feeling so hot and I told her this. It took me a bit to convince her to give me a ride back near my place and I ate a granola bar, so by the time I actually got into my place I was feeling a bit better. That happened last year I think.

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Yeah. I don't go anywhere without the bottle of glucose. So even if I pack some food along it always comes with me out of habit. They work quick, they're easy to store and carry with you and especially when you don't want to eat at that time it's just a great way to get your sugar up without resorting to actual food.

I haven't had to deal with work yet. That's an inevitable part of my future, working with the diabetes. At least with the tech do-dads I could probably get away with nobody even knowing I was diabetic if I didn't screw it up.

I really feel for you though. You don't have diabetes, but you still have a condition that somewhat mirrors the worst part of diabetes. At least the most immediately dangerous part of it. But you know what you're doing.

I could never have empathized with you about it until I experienced it for myself.

Solidarity.

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My problem can as far as I know only be fixed with diet. Peanut butter is a great thing to keep on hand for me and some pop when I am in my place. When out like I said granola bars and making sure I get at least one coffee then eat lunch when I am out. Once home I will have a snack of something around 2pm, then supper, then there are my seizure meds around 9:30pm, then a snack around 11pm. Rinse and repeat the next day.

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You do seem quite deliberate with your food choices. A lifetime of needing to be deliberate about your food choices would explain that.

I envy your ability to really enjoy food. For me it's just like breathing air... something I've got to do to live. I guess that works out pretty nicely for a rookie Diabetic though.

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We had an insulin dependent diabetic office assistant. At the time she has to do insulin the old fashioned way.

But what she would do is eat a b'fast of granola or yogurt and OJ, and inject insulin based on THAT meal. So the easy-digested sugar would peak and then drop ... and drop ... and drop. We had to rescue her when she got glassy eyed and started slurring her words, and if we couldn't persuade her to drink some OJ or eat some PB&J we had to call 911.

SIX, I'm sure you'll know what this means ... I was there when the EMTs showed up, and they tested her blood sugar at 20 (!!!). But by then, she was almost unconscious.

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I used to get hypoglycemic too. Like you, BRENDA, when it got too low my temper would flare. And when it did, a part of me would KNOW I was being unreasonable but there was nothing I could do about it.

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Yup, been there numerous times and had people look at me. People I know. I've had to apologize and then explain what was going on. Yeah, you always know you are being unreasonable but not thing one you can really do about it.

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I would hope that if your blood sugar goes dangerously low someone would step in and either persuade you to eat/ drink something or call 911. The problem with our OA is that she worked in the lab lobby and us lab folks were mostly either in the lab or in our cubicles processing data, so nobody was checking in on her regularly. So when she got bad, she got REALLY bad. "Very, very drunk and combative" is how I would describe her behavior, and why she was so resistant to eating or drinking anything.

The shaking sweaty hands, confused thinking and irritability BTW is a combo of two things. When people's blood sugar goes low, their adrenaline goes up. So they've got all of this adrenaline running thru them. And then, their brains are hobbled by lack of glucose. Jacked up adrenaline and lack of self control = angry drunk behavior.

Oh BTW, Canadians express sugar in different units (mmol/L) that us USAans (mg/dL). So her measurement of "20" in the USA scale would be about "1" in your scale.


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We had an insulin dependent diabetic office assistant. At the time she has to do insulin the old fashioned way.

But what she would do is eat a b'fast of granola or yogurt and OJ, and inject insulin based on THAT meal. So the easy-digested sugar would peak and then drop ... and drop ... and drop. We had to rescue her when she got glassy eyed and started slurring her words, and if we couldn't persuade her to drink some OJ or eat some PB&J we had to call 911.

SIX, I'm sure you'll know what this means ... I was there when the EMTs showed up, and they tested her blood sugar at 20 (!!!). But by then, she was almost unconscious.

*****

I used to get hypoglycemic too. Like you, BRENDA, when it got too low my temper would flare. And when it did, a part of me would KNOW I was being unreasonable but there was nothing I could do about it.

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Yup, been there numerous times and had people look at me. People I know. I've had to apologize and then explain what was going on. Yeah, you always know you are being unreasonable but not thing one you can really do about it.

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I would hope that if your blood sugar goes dangerously low someone would step in and either persuade you to eat/ drink something or call 911. The problem with our OA is that she worked in the lab lobby and us lab folks were mostly either in the lab or in our cubicles processing data, so nobody was checking in on her regularly. So when she got bad, she got REALLY bad. "Very, very drunk and combative" is how I would describe her behavior, and why she was so resistant to eating or drinking anything.

The shaking sweaty hands, confused thinking and irritability BTW is a combo of two things. When people's blood sugar goes low, their adrenaline goes up. So they've got all of this adrenaline running thru them. And then, their brains are hobbled by lack of glucose. Jacked up adrenaline and lack of self control = angry drunk behavior.

Oh BTW, Canadians express sugar in different units (mmol/L) that us USAans (mg/dL). So her measurement of "20" in the USA scale would be about "1" in your scale.


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And I would hope someone would do that for me.

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We had an insulin dependent diabetic office assistant. At the time she has to do insulin the old fashioned way.

But what she would do is eat a b'fast of granola or yogurt and OJ, and inject insulin based on THAT meal. So the easy-digested sugar would peak and then drop ... and drop ... and drop. We had to rescue her when she got glassy eyed and started slurring her words, and if we couldn't persuade her to drink some OJ or eat some PB&J we had to call 911.

SIX, I'm sure you'll know what this means ... I was there when the EMTs showed up, and they tested her blood sugar at 20 (!!!). But by then, she was almost unconscious.

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I used to get hypoglycemic too. Like you, BRENDA, when it got too low my temper would flare. And when it did, a part of me would KNOW I was being unreasonable but there was nothing I could do about it.

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Yup, been there numerous times and had people look at me. People I know. I've had to apologize and then explain what was going on. Yeah, you always know you are being unreasonable but not thing one you can really do about it.

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I would hope that if your blood sugar goes dangerously low someone would step in and either persuade you to eat/ drink something or call 911. The problem with our OA is that she worked in the lab lobby and us lab folks were mostly either in the lab or in our cubicles processing data, so nobody was checking in on her regularly. So when she got bad, she got REALLY bad. "Very, very drunk and combative" is how I would describe her behavior, and why she was so resistant to eating or drinking anything.

The shaking sweaty hands, confused thinking and irritability BTW is a combo of two things. When people's blood sugar goes low, their adrenaline goes up. So they've got all of this adrenaline running thru them. And then, their brains are hobbled by lack of glucose. Jacked up adrenaline and lack of self control = angry drunk behavior.

Oh BTW, Canadians express sugar in different units (mmol/L) that us USAans (mg/dL). So her measurement of "20" in the USA scale would be about "1" in your scale.


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Thanks for the info SIG and that all makes perfect sense to me.

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Please dear God yes.

We didn't know at first that our OA was an insulin dependent diabetic, so the first time around we were confused about what to do. Once we were clued in to what was going on, we got our activity down to a ... er .. science. Including stationing people in highly visible white lab coats at our agency's driveway and at intervals in the parking lot to flag down and wave on the EMTs.

Do the people around you know you suffer from hypoglycemia (and seizures)? I hope so! People need to be prepared for medical emergencies.

Does Canada have a medic-alert bracelet system? It might be useful when you're out and about, among strangers.

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You too, SIX. Don't keep your diabetes a secret. Let those around you know what to do.

FWIW, since hyper and hypoglycemia can be hard to tell apart, and NOBODY carries test equipment and may not know how to read your meter, the rule of thumb, I've been told, is to assume that the person has low blood sugar and to try to get sugar into them (and call 911!). Bc high blood sugar kills in the long run (20 years) but low blood sugar will kill right away.

What you said about making small corrections sounds like the voice of experience. I know a lab tech who worked in County Hospital stat lab, and she got to see how different doctors treated their patients. As it happened, there were two patients in hospital, both insulin dependent diabetics, and both ill with some kind of infection. One doctor kept pegging the glucose from one end to the other. The other made slower, smaller corrections and brought blood sugar and overall medical status back under control over the course of a few days. In the end, the second patient was discharged days ahead of the first.

Maybe you should look into a medic alert bracelet yourself?

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Everybody knows.

I think when I do get a job I'm not going to mention it until well after I'm hired, and once I've developed a working relationship with the management. I tend to work alone, so it would be to my benefit if the manager on duty knew about it at least.

I've done plenty of work at home, some of it extremely strenuous, but I'm at home where everything is. I know that I'm going to have to be careful and ease my way back into that sort of lifestyle.

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Well unless I gave the password to my "phone" to them, nobody would be able to read my meter if I was passed out. It's a stupid, stupid system that they have set up for the Insulin Pods. The CGM itself would work just fine without any password protection on the phone, but the Insulin Pod app will not even work unless you have a password on the phone.

Even without worrying about being out in public when an event happened, it's just plain annoying. Whenever I want to check my numbers and/or adjust my basal drip, I need to type in the pin to get there first. And since I can't set the screen to be on for 10 minutes before turning off and locking the phone again without just burning through the battery quickly, it's a constant hassle. I'm really pissed off about that whole thing. Where do they get off forcing that decision on me?

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Yeah. It's defiantly based on experience. You don't really learn much from the education courses. I'm glad I had them to get me started, but you're pretty much flying on your own with this stuff.

I actually had a bit of a roller coaster last night, tbh. Not only is experience important, but realizing that sometimes your body behaves differently and processes stuff differently is important as well. I ate a VERY early dinner for me last night, but I used the same amount of insulin for it that I would have when I was eating closer to midnight. Big mistake, apparently. Instead of keeping me well within range and quite a bit below the high end, I peaked over 200. I was still rising, so I gave myself 5.5 units. 1 hour later, I was still above 200 and actually higher than before. You saw a level off and dip effect about 30 minutes in, but then it kept rising. So I made the mistake of feeding myself about 5.5 more units. That did the trick... but then I was preemptively eating sugar because I started dropping way to fast. I even busted out one of the Pepsis my aunt leaves here for me just in case, and even though I didn't want to drink it and didn't enjoy it at all, after forcing that down with some cinnamon and oat cheerios, I managed to get it to rebound before I got down to 70. But then I went back up over 200 again.

Last night was a horrible night for sleep. I eventually corrected it and was steady around 110 for about 2 hours. But I got to sleep so late that I slept in. By the time I woke up again, even though I'd not eaten anything else, I was back up over 200 again.

I'm now back down to just over 100 after making a correction this morning and things seem to be alright.

I couldn't tell you why this happened, other than I ate something I don't usually eat, and I ate it around 5 hours before I usually eat. I counted the carbs just like I always do and gave myself the amount of insulin that normally handles it correctly.

I think my state of mind at the time has a lot to do with how well I correct things. Once I screw up and the bottom falls out so I'm crashing fast, I think I get a little jittery and make some bad decisions. At that point I have to just resign myself to the high and slowly bring myself back down, because once you get on that roller coaster it's hard to get off of it. Maybe with more experience I'll get even better at that, but it's not something that happens often and that's a good thing. Just strange that it happened last night after I started talking about it here. Almost like I willed it into existence.

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That's what they tell me.

That's another Predatory Capitalism topic you probably don't want to get me started on. With all the free samples they've got for insulin and needles and CGMs and pods, you'd think somebody would be giving the doctors and education centers boxes full of various Diabetic bracelets and necklaces, right? Nobody's got one. I can go to my Insulin Pod store though and they'd be more than happy to ship one to me for the low, low price of 30 FUCKING DOLLARS.

They're cheaper on Amazon. Probably sold by Chinese drop-shippers that are selling TEMU products with lead in them too, right?


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I hope you get that weed whacker going, SIX, Its my cleanup toolmof choice.

Well, that and a spading fork.


I haven't looked at that hedge trimmer yet. I'll be spending two more days on AM yardwork, which should be enough time to button up that one section of the garden for a few years.

After that I guess I start doing some indoor work. One thing I have to do is record all of our contacts and accounts in one place so if our trustee needs to take over it'll be easier for them. Plus finish filing. And it would be nice to get all all our pix organized. And declutttering. And getting the irrigation vslves replaced bc hand watering is such a time suck. And email the sketch I did of the vanity we would like to our contractors cabinet guy, bc its a non-standard length and can't be purchased.

Well, on with the show!

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Just bc I have a long list of things to do doesn't mean I'm getting them done!

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