SD>Hello, All.

Hi, Sean...

SD>Thought I'd share with you my first full-fledged hypoglycemic attack... I
  >nearly passed out from it, but I did something smart and stopped it... let m
  >set this up:



SD>What really got me was how fast it hit me... and how hard.  I mean, from sta
  >to finish was maybe 10-15 minutes tops.  I think it's because I'm on a good
  >dose of glyburide (5 mg) and I know that glyburide can cause rapid
  >hypoglycemia in a hurry.

  Are you type 1 or 2??

SD>Out of this next paycheck, I'm getting a Medic Alert braclet.  That incident
  >scared the hell out of me and I'm not wanting that to happen again...

  Janice and I have Medic-Alert...since we're both medical disaster areas
in our own rights. Believe me...it's well worth the cost.

SD>I'll be good and eat more next time, as well as start bringing a snack with
  >such as some crackers or something...

  We always carry some extra "sweet food or drink"...in case
Janice goes into low sugar reaction. Janice is a type 1 diabetic
(thankfully, I'm not diabetic...and we're trying to keep it that way).

  When Janice was a senior at Cornell University, she didn't have a chance
to eat her lunch one day, because she was helping to grade final exams for
one of her psychology professors. By the time she got to the main student
union, the dining room was already closed. She was in reaction so bad, that
she doesn't remember the following incident happening, but she knows that
she did it. She remembers getting on the Ithaca City Bus, going to her bank
to take some money out of her checking account...then, the next thing she
remembers, is that she was in a restaurant, with one tunafish sandwich, and
a glass of lemonade staring at her. She adds "how's that for self
preservation?". :)

  Another friend of ours, who is also a ham radio operator, with her
boyfriend...she is a type 1 diabetic. She has other problems, but we'll
just deal with the diabetes here. She told us that once, her glucose had
plummeted to 20!!

  Janice adds that one time, she was asleep on the Futon...and our now 10
year old weenie dog (who became a type 1 diabetic himself in the last
year...and has lost his vision from diabetic cataracts)...he sensed that
something was wrong, and jumped up on the Futon, and on her stomach!! When
she took her reading, it down to 34...and that reading has happened twice!!

Daryl



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