Funniest/strangest/worst hypo moment....

Hi,

A few years ago possibly 4 or 5 i went out to Asda, had a cheese salad (cheese, lettuce, tomatoes etc), did a full injection of my QA, maybe 10u as a guess, think i was on Novorapid for QA & Insulatard for BI at the time, then several hours later i had a VERY bad hypo, falling about, banging my head against the wall in the bathroom even turned into a hamster throwing demon & threw my daughter's hamster across the room! I was in hospital for an overnight stay.

I once went through a stage where i was having hypos in a morning & tended to get very aggressive and adament that I was fine when my husband kept trying to "pour" lucozade down my neck.

I've also had them where i laugh hysterically.

Wooops!

Early this am (about 0700am when i checked on my meter before) i had a very bad hypo. Apparently i was jerking about in bed, my hubby said he somehow managed to roll me out of bed, fed me the usual, some jelly babies, i "walked" into the bathroom & sat on the toilet in the pitch black, my hubby was asking me if i'd done a test to which i started bursting out into fits of laughter, i woke the whole household (daughter & son) up, then i shouted to my hubby to go & get me a cheese sandwich, which he very kindly did .
When i checked my meter before my bs was 2.8 and yet i've had hypos at this level many a time before and always been fully capabable . Also when i checked my meter i'd done several or should i say lots of tests at the time of my hypo, no wonder my finger is sore today, lol.
I had a headache before but i'm glad to say i feel much better now I had porridge for brekkie and now i'm off to get some lunch.

Any thought to the reasons behind your hypo?

novorapidboi26 said:
Any thought to the reasons behind your hypo?

So how much did you take for your salmon sandwich at 1635..................I would of expected a low before the next morning if this dose was too much though...............

Maybe your BI is too high, either that or alcohol...........!

novorapidboi26 said:
So how much did you take for your salmon sandwich at 1635..................I would of expected a low before the next morning if this dose was too much though...............

Maybe your BI is too high, either that or alcohol...........!

Re the BI adjusting, how do i do this?

You mean how do you establish if you need more or less.......................?

This is done by testing your blood with no carbs or quick acting insulin on board, so during the day, you could skip a meal [like you done already], or have a carb free meal...........you can then see by looking at your results whether your BI dose is doing its job of holding you steady [+/- 1mmol/l].......

It also depends on what insulin your on, Lantus, usually taken once a day, will have to be adjusted, then you test for a few days, as the effects take longer........

Levemir, which is normally split into twice a day, can be adjusted and the effects noticed the next day.............and you would also have 2 separate time slots to test, daytime and night time.............

So you would start with the night time, no carbs or insulin after evening meal, take your BI at normal time, test before bed, test in morning, should of been held steady if dose is right, if not, adjust your dose accordingly, say 1-2 units............

And the rest is straight forward.........

whiskysmum said:

novorapidboi26 said:
So how much did you take for your salmon sandwich at 1635..................I would of expected a low before the next morning if this dose was too much though...............

Maybe your BI is too high, either that or alcohol...........!

10u for the salmon sandwich.

I'm wondering if it's the BI which i'm taking too much of, there was no alcohol consumed last night.

My mum was a quiet mild mannered lady but once during a bad hypo when we had to call for the GP she told him to F*** off. There was a deathly silence and then we all fell about laughing including my mum. Till the day she died she denied that it had ever happened. Go Mum Go!!!