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"Low" and Behold

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Saturday, 15 January 2011 08:21
Wow.

Right now I am experiencing a mega serious hypo.  I've always wanted to vlog a hypo in the midst of its grips but since re-formatting my hard drive I no longer have webcam software.  The main reason why I haven't done that as of yet is because of fear that the world might call me masochistic.  Why would anybody want to broadcast a hypoglycemic episode?  Well because we write and talk about it so much.  I think that SEEING a hypo from the outside point of view would lead to a larger understanding that you would never know.  Even from

one diabetic to another.

I won't ask you to forgive my psycho-babble here because writing while low was the point of this post.  I'll tell you that spell check is going to get a serious run for it's money when I'm done writing.  I've got all the symptoms and they came on like a fucking freight train.  Within minutes I was hyperventilating, sweating, droopy tired eyes and I could barely make it to my meter.  The world started closing in on my vision.

I am having one of the worst lows one can have.  I mean timing wise for me.  I bolused for a meal only an  hour ago.  I finished 30 minutes ago.  I did not over bolus because this is soup I eat all the time and know well what the carb count is.  1 hour after bolusing my BG is at 2.4 mmol/l (43 mg/dl).  That means that it's probably going to continue to crash for the next few hours.  The part that makes me want to cry is that I JUST ate.  If you've read much of my blog at all you'll know that eating is hard for me.  I fill up quickly and often feel nauseous.  So only 30 minutes post meal even a kids size juice box is difficult.  So I've squeezed a juice box in there as well as a dex4 liquid glucose.  It's the why that's got me so confused.  Why now? I haven't done anything different.

Fucking Diabetes.
I think I need to replace the mega expired glucagon kit.

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My apologies for not updating the post.  I've never really thought of going back to the post.  Yes, I was fine after monitoring it for 3 hours.  It still got low but I managed.       Thank you for the kind thoughts.

 
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