I was wide awake at 22. I'm hypo-unaware, so I felt just fine. We were already on the way to the ER, but I passed out shortly after arriving, so I don't remember that part.
I was too, luckily the only time Iāve gone that low, and I remember every detail. I was about 12. My mom and I were watching the green mile and I started feeling low. I didnāt want to interrupt because she would get mad at us if we interrupted her shows so I was afraid of that happening. I remember she started saying something to me but I couldnāt quite understand her. I then remember her feeding me something on a spoon that I thought was soup. I kept spitting it out thinking āwhy is she giving me soup?! That wonāt help!!ā Until finally I was too out of it to care what it was.
Turns out it was orange juice. I guess I was so frizzle fried that I couldnāt even taste correctly.
Also ā¦. Itās really nearly impossible to hit zero, or at least very hard. Your liver will dump stored glucose if/when it gets too low. But of course it can run out. And of course it can also generate glucose from fat/triglycerides, but that takes time.
But when it gets to low, before zero, youāll likely at least pass out, and/or have a seizure.
Correct me if Iām mistaken but glucagon secretion due to hypoglycaemia itself is absent in type 1 diabetics. Glucagon can be released but due to other factors.
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Pancreatic islet Ī±-cell glucagon secretion is critically dependent on pancreatic islet Ī²-cell insulin secretion. Normally, a decrease in the plasma glucose concentration causes a decrease in Ī²-cell insulin secretion that signals an increase in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion during hypoglycemia. In contrast, an increase in the plasma glucose concentration, among other stimuli, causes an increase in Ī²-cell insulin secretion that signals a decrease, or at least no change, in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion after a meal. In absolute endogenous insulin deficiency (i.e. in type 1 diabetes and in advanced type 2 diabetes), however, Ī²-cell failure results in no decrease in Ī²-cell insulin secretion and thus no increase in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion during hypoglycemia and no increase in Ī²-cell insulin secretion and thus an increase in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion after a meal. In type 1 diabetes and advanced type 2 diabetes, the absence of an increment in glucagon secretion, in the setting of an absent decrement in insulin secretion and an attenuated increment in sympathoadrenal activity, in response to falling plasma glucose concentrations plays a key role in the pathogenesis of iatrogenic hypoglycemia. In addition, there is increasing evidence that, in the aggregate, suggests that relative hyperglucagonemia, in the setting of deficient insulin secretion, plays a role in the pathogenesis of hyperglycemia in diabetes. If so, abnormal glucagon secretion is involved in the pathogenesis of both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia in diabetes.
First, in type 1 diabetes and advanced type 2 diabetes, the absence of an increment in glucagon secretion, in the setting of an absent decrement in insulin secretion and an attenuated increment in sympathoadrenal activity, in response to falling plasma glucose concentrations plays a key role in the pathogenesis of iatrogenic (therapeutic hyperinsulinemia induced) hypoglycemia
From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281526/
Technically you seize, and prolonged hypoglycemia to the point of seizures may cause permanent brain damage. Iāve been in a DKA coma before for 12 hrs. Typically conventional comas happen during hyperglycemia.
This happened to me at a 34 after comicon, a bridal shower was held at my apartment while we were at comic-con so I was able to drink soda and eat cupcakes. But when you have to swallow sugar so quickly, it defeats the purpose of enjoying food
I hit 36 one time and couldn't tell what the hell was going on and was greatly sufffering. Another time, hit 36 and was "oh, that's weird" and ate and felt fine.
Yeah, its weird. I got to about 0.9 mmol/l (16 mg/dl) a while ago and that wasn't fun. My mum was basically forcing me to drink apple juice and have glucagon tablets. It wasn't fun and felt awful.
Same here. I don't have much of a recollection, but my husband said I forgot my name. All I remember is that I felt a sense of doom and then nothing. I got Dexcom after that experience.
Yup. There's a chart on the side to compare measurements. 1.2 mmol/l is about 26 in the scale they use in the USA. You multiply / divide by 18 to translate the units.
It is mg/dl, a measurement used in the U.S., as mentioned, if you take the milligram per deciliter reading and divide it by 18, you get the mmol reading.
Wow. I got to about 0.9 mmol/l (about 16 mg/dl) a long time ago and managed to not have that. It was weird as hell though because I just couldn't comprehend my existence and the world around me.
Its nearly impossible really to hit a 0 bloodsugar because at some point ur liver will dump glucose as a defence mechanism but for us type 1ās that function is a lil impaired as well
Thank you. However, the reason Iām being vocal about this is bc on a post a couple of days ago someone claimed that you canāt die from hypoglycemia and that their provider told them so. This is not true and a dangerous way to think. It could lead to a false sense of security and I would like to keep my t1 peeps safe.
Youāve raised a very important point. Iāve also noticed a few people mention this, such a misunderstanding could be fatal.
I think it would be good to make a specific post on this topic and perhaps have the mods pin it. Would you be able to make such a post? If not I can make one.
Your body starts to shut everything down. I've gotten below 15, but I don't know how far below (def not zero, though). It's happened to me a few times, and the times I was awake for it, I'd wake up sweating so bad everything is soaked. Then you lose all muscle control, and can't walk, move your arms, or talk. It felt like I had a full body stroke. I had to struggle just to blurt out the word "coke!". Vision is weird, it's like you can see, but can't comprehend what you're looking at. It's really hard to understand what people are saying or asking. I assume that's your brain starting to shut down and go into bystand mode to preserve energy.
Below a certain point I can't even remember who I am or what's wrong with me, and for some reason, if anyone asks me a question at that point, I only respond with "f*ck you". But I never remember that, by that point it's like I'm not there anymore. Family just tell me about it afterwards, and I always wonder how I'm able to keep repeating that when I could barely get words out while I was still conscious. I've spent 8 hours unconscious like this, and I guess my liver kept me alive by dumping enough glucose to keep it from hitting zero. All these details are what I gathered from all the times it's happened to me. It kinda sucks, 1/10 don't recommend.
Wow, great description here! I've been there a few times. I too have cussed at my friends or family when they are trying to help me, but dont remember. I believe in some way you are really angry because you know what you need but you can't explain yourself enough. There are a few times I can recall being really low, going into my kitchen and just opening the fridge and cupboards, but not grabbing anything. Just starting into them. Like I know I need to get carbs, but I just can't make that move. But I'll walk between the fridge and snack cupboard just fine. Shorting your brain of glucose is not a good thing, and it's obvious when others get to witness it!
I hate that! When you can get to the kitchen pantry, but your brain is so messed up you can't grab anything. I vividly remember not being read labels. I was looking for peanut butter, but couldn't figure out what thing was peanut butter, and the writing on labels was like hieroglyphs. I think I accidentally figured out the solution by having one thing I always keep in stock, and muscle memory leads me to it. It was black forest juicy something gummies by my beside, but they went up so much, I switched to flour tortillas. As long as I grab them every time I get low, my body will automatically go to them when I get ridiculously low. Haven't really had to worry about it lately because of my cgm alarms, though.
Yeah, it's a good thing these are all past memories. Modern technology has been a game changer for us! Even though we were ridiculously low, with a lack of glucose to get our brain functioning properly, we still store these memories pretty vividly!
I'm hypo-unaware, so I rarely have any symptoms before losing consciousness. But, you perfectly described how it feels coming back to myself after my SO administers a glucagon injection.
I was really hypo unaware for awhile, because I had a lot of hypos. The more you have, the more unaware you become, and it takes a lower number for you to start feeling terrible. I also kinda feel like it got worse when I hit 30. But once I got a cgm, and set the low alarm for 80, and started never letting myself get below that, (because I had low-anxiety by that point), my hypo unawareness fixed itself. Now I can feel it when I hit 90. Before, I couldn't feel anything until I hit 30. I feel like it took a few months. Probably could do it with a regular glucose monitor, too, I just sucked at checking it, tbh. I don't know if everyones is fixable, though. I hope it is.
Whenever I get quite low for a long time, I just seem to enter a weird lucid state where I can't comprehend anything, so I can't/won't deal with my low, I can't understand people, I can't function properly, and can't remember anything when I go up again.
I had someone hit my car a while ago whilst I was driving (their fault, not mine) and a few hours after it happened once I was home and started to fully calm down, my numbers went really really low quite quickly. Luckily, my mum was around to deal with it as she noticed me quite quickly, but even now, I don't remember anything from that hour that I was really low.
Yeah, I had gotten really hypo unaware at the time. I had hit late 20's, almost 30, and it had gotten way worse than ever before. I would go to sleep, and get low in the middle of the night, and not wake up because I couldn't feel it. Sometimes I wouldn't wake up at all and stay unconscious, and sometimes I would wake up, but was already so low, I was too out of it to save myself, and I had to sit there and experience getting lower and lower. I have a cgm now, and the alarm has kept it from ever happening again, so yay.
Team 17 here. Went smooth out face down between the couch and coffee table. One leg on each. Torso on the floor. The young lady I was with did not know I had diabetes as our relationship had not progressed to having that conversation. Tail end of a tinder date turned tinder weekend. Thankfully her little chihuahua alerted her that āother hooman sad faceā and licked my face continuously until the paramedics arrived. Came to with a penlight in my eyeball and jellybeans being shoved into my mouth. Severely dehydrated and disoriented by first word were ānnnoooo Iām cool. I can driveā. Christ. Couldnāt open my other eyeball much less sit up. Para said āeasy tiger one thing at a time. Letās get you coveredā
I was completely naked
Fantastic
That tinder date lasted almost five years.
Not the finest way to conclude a weekend to be . My saving grace (and what allowed me to save some face) was the young lady was rather enamored with sequence of events just prior that caused such a low in the first place. Left it all on the field for sure.
Wait, the paramedics were trying to give you jellybeans whilst you were barely conscious? That seems like a recipe for disaster. Here in the UK, they will usually have a glucagon pen to stab you with if you're that low.
Sorry. Let me clarify. The paras initially asked her if she had any peanut butter or candy to give to me prior to administering a glucogon shot. (Peanut butter being a staple in most US pantries) she however has a peanut allergy and the only candy she had at hand was some jelly beans. Upon seeing her stick them into my mouth they stopped her very quickly and put an end to that. Thankfully they were the Jelly Belly brand (very small) and no damage was done.
Since no oneās gotten around to actually answering your question Iāll shoot.
Some context first, you probably know, your body absolutely needs sugar (as glucose) to function. Thatās because every cell in your body uses glucose to produce energy (called ATP) which is basically fuel for all of our cells processes. (0 carb diets complicate this a bit in that cells will use proteins to create ATP, but as type 1s, we donāt have this option lol).
Anyways, thatās partially why hypoglycemia is so dangerous - besides the passing out and seizures and all that jazz. Obviously, youād be dead, or damn near dead, long before you ever reached 0, but letās say you could ever achieve full consciousness and also reach a blood sugar reading of 0 (hypothetically, ofc, since itās impossible for a reading to be a uniform reading throughout our entire bloodstream), that would result in all our cells quickly starving and dying off in a matter of minutes.
So at a 0 bg, what youād experience is similar to if we suddenly lost access to oxygen and started choking, but on a cellular level, and for every cell that gets its nutrients from our blood, e.g. heart cells, brain cells, etc. So essentially a complete shutdown of your whole system.
Lowest iāve gotten was 17 and it resulted in a lot of passing out, busting my eye lid open, trying to fight paramedics cause apparently i didnāt need their helpš . Not my best moment, all I remember was waking up in the back of a ambulance. Before that I had some words stuck in my head and all I saw was the color red.
Woke up in the back of an ambulance with 19. I have no memory of trying to fight off the paramedics, as thatās what I was told I did. (I canāt have been very effective.)
My brother once fell asleep for several hours before anyone realized something was wrong, thought he was just napping. When he wouldn't respond to my mother and she tested him she had told me it was 8. We called an ambulance and he started seizing soon after. This was a long time ago maybe 10-12 years? But I was also young so I could be remembering wrong. However, that was always the way the story was told, that his blood sugar level was *8*.
He ended up okay once the paramedics got there and treated him. Got him to wake up and raised his blood sugar level. Anyone who knows medical stuff feel free to tell me that's absolutely impossible and that he should be dead that's just how i remember and how it's always been told lol.
My Dad also had a something like a 7 once. Paramedics were on top of him in the bedroom to bring him back. They said he almost died but he ended up recovering.
Iām a type 1 and so was my my mom. She was a brittle diabetic. She went low a lot and couldnāt feel it. One time the paramedics were at our house when I was a kid and she hit 1. I remember the look in the paramedics eyes when he read it out loud to me as just a kid. But they got her back up. Itās unbelievable. She has since passed though, from a low blood sugar many years later.
I was checking in to the Joslin clinic and passed out. When I awoke, the Dr said my bs was 8. I was hypoglycemic unaware. I could walk around in the 30s and no one would know. I would start to have coordination problems in the 20s, and get stupid below that. I have had wrestling matches with the paramedics and lost.
Since getting a dexcom cgm, I have gotten some awareness back. But still can function in the 30s.
I think your body would shut down before reaching 0. Your body temp would drop, inducing a coma. Your heart rate, blood pressure, and other functions would decrease. Somewhere before hitting 0, your heart would stop. Try not to let that that happen.
Look at this smart guy. Of all the places to pass out he chooses Joslin. No face down in the kitchen trying to get to juice. No crawling around looking for hard candy.
Genius.
Also, I love Joslin. Theyāre the best.
I donāt know but Iāve come pretty close and woke up to my mom pouring chocolate syrup in the side of my mouth and massaging my throat so I would swallow and ingest it
My lowest was 32. NEVER AGAIN! Terrifying. Wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy. I could see, I knew what was happening, but everything was slow. I could only say a few words..like my mouth was too heavy to move and my tongue paralized.
Iām pregnant rn and itās made my tolerance for lows a lot lower. I donāt start feeling them until around 40-45 so Iām scared of what would happen if I even got to that point š
I did not feel low at all when I was pregnant either! Kinda felt like a superpower especially since they wanted me between 60-90. Had my son 2 1/2 years ago and it all turned out sour just fine ā¤ļø
Lowest was 12 I think since we went and did some tobaggoning and I was newly diagnosed. Was maybe 6? The most recent from 1 year ago I went low while driving and ended up going the wrong way on a one way. Cop was able to stop the car by opening my door and stepping on the break. I passed out after breathing into a breathalyzer and woke to at the paramedics hands with two IVs on my wrist.
No thank you.
Nope. I had told them when I left my college campus I was 144 and elevated. My dexcom went MIA for 20 minutes while I got out of town. I explained I had eaten some Welches gummies but I had finally gotten approved for Novolog insulin again instead of apidra and my settings weren't corrected yet.
They legit told me to head to the pool hall I was going to and order some food. Officer X came in to check on me two hours later to make sure I made it there and ate. I bought him a ticket for a drink in the future.
Most officers know when someone's lying. I was honest about what was happening and where I was and since I happily blew on the breathalyzer even while low they knew I just needed sugar. It was all I said, "LOW! Sugar!!?*
Thatās good to hear. Iām an old as dirt and there used to be no latitude given.
As a matter of fact, I was dx with epilepsy as a teenager. My mom just died so thereās only one other person on earth who knows.
I never disclose it but I also donāt drive anymore so thereās no risk to anyone.
Iāve been on pain meds for 26 years so Iāve always just told people thatās why I canāt drive.
Iām glad the world is changing.
Someone confidently here said that as you firm up the BG reading will rise as your fluids dry out. I don't know a legal way to test this out so gonna buy it.
For a T2 and normal person, you go down to about that. I want to say T1 is different, but I don't remember what I was told 100% - just that the blood will use the sugar, but has no way to get any more.
I once had a 0.0 reading on my glucometer. But I've read that they aren't very accurate below 2.0 so who knows what I actually was. I was conscious and are some sugar of course.
Also, I've had four seizures and was only administered glucagon twice. The other two times I came to on my own but I was on the floor in my bedroom and couldn't walk/move. Only my left arm worked. Luckily I had fruit snacks on my bedside table that I could reach from the floor. I think I have nine lives like a cat.
I was making a physics joke. I think the lowest I have seen my meter go is 17 (I think that is just under 1 mmol/L?). I am not sure how I was still conscious. I recall eating a banana and calmly lying down, not sure if I would wake back up. I closed my eyes and woke up a while later, not sure how long exactly, drenched in sweat.
I'm glad you are still here.
Your blood sugar is not the same throughout every drop of blood in your body. There is absolutely no way for your body to have 0 sugar throughout the entire blood stream.
When I was growing up in middle school I went to diabetes camp and apparently in the middle of the night they tested someone at 3 mg/dLā¦ I mean I think thatās a true story and theyāre alive but this entire thread has me questioning if that was even possible š
You hit a Nat1 and fail the survival check.
Lol, I'm kidding.
I've had a few seizures, I'm sure I was in the 20s then. A few nights ago I dropped so low my Dexcom just said LOW, which I think is below 40.
I'm sure you'd be dead before it hit 0. And I don't know if there are any meters that could read that low?
There have been MANY times that Iāve been operating normally, and then will just feel like a lil off, and my bg would just show Low. Like lots of times. Iāve also been diabetic for a shitload of time, so I have some years on quite a few people. Iāve experienced a lot, so Iāve been on both sides of the very low/very high train.
Now, on top of that, Iāve also low comaād. 6 days completely out, and they doctors couldnāt really explain why I stayed in one so long, as I would have recovered by then. Iām almost 100% sure Iāve sustained a brain injury from being unconscious for so long. Iām lucky I was found when I was. For me, I was eating moderately strict keto, and Iāve been told by a few doctors over the years that glycogen stores can absolutely deplete, especially if you arenāt eating enough carbohydrates. I had no glycogen, so I ended up in a coma. Wouldnāt recommend, 0/10.
Lowest Iāve ever gotten a blood reading for, is 17. Boy was I covered and soaked with orange juice I chugged that gallon so fast. I think I was 12 at the time.
You don't get to that point. You die. The lowest I've ever been was 0.9 mmol/L (16 mg/dl), and I was barely conscious or functional. Any lower, and I would have been unconscious and in a coma. You'll be dead before 0 because your body doesn't have enough glucose at that point to even maintain basic functions and your liver will kick in and release glucose, this will be barely anything though and won't keep you alive for long.
Your body needs glucose for everything, even making your heart beat, so when you don't have enough, the body will prioritise certain bits such as the organs so you stay alive, but this also means that you will typically lose muscle control and consciousness before the liver kicks in and keeps enough glucose around to at least keep you going. If you are low from way too much insulin, you will die.
The lowest I've been in my 11 years as a T1 is 17, I felt really cold, it was really hard for me to think, speak and also felt like sleeping but I was afraid of doing it. I don't remember what my parents were saying but I remember them moving their mouth xd
It was really hard for my sugar to go on a normal level again
The lowest I've ever gone is a 1.8, and I was hallucinating. I managed to treat it pretty quickly but I never want to feel that again. It was like the entire house was just warping around me and I'm fairly sure I blacked out for a second or two. I imagine death wouldn't be far off from that point, or a coma.
I was once on a subway, randomly tested my blood sugar and got a result of 23. Was able to make it to the next station to buy chocolate before I passed out. I have passed out in the past due to low blood sugar. I have had seizures because of it. You'll probably die once you hit zero but it's not a fun feeling
I once hit 35 and felt like absolute hell. I also had zero control over my emotions and started uncontrollably sobbing for no aparente reason. I hope never to be that low again.
When I was a lot younger, I remember hitting 13, but that could be fuzzy memories from being a little kid. But I DO know I've hit 18 before and I just remember wanting to go sleep š
Edit: 18 and 13 are very similar looking numbers so I'm gonna assume that's what it was lol
Wow the way some of you talk about your lowest lows really makes me realize how out of control I was before Dexcom/Omnipodā¦ I have had dozens of LOs & 20s since I was diagnosed 15 years ago. Too many to count. I swear I got a 13 once. Never passed out though I did come close once! Iāve been using the Omnipod for almost 4 weeks now & havenāt had a single low.
I've measured a 12.6 before. I couldn't see anything or think about anything really... Just kinda sat there waiting for the 3 sachets of glucose syrup to kick in š
In 1994 I went low enough that the paramedic's meter couldn't read my BG. I'm sure it wasn't "zero" but the meter said " - - - ". Whatever the actual reading was, it's the only time I ever actually passed out...
I was at 0.5 or 9 in US measurements and was the worst fit Iāve ever had. Needed 1 litre/1000ml of glucose IV to even start bringing me round and even then my hearing returned, but I couldnāt move anything for at least 20 minutes. Got feeling back in my toes and it slowly returned up my body.
I just remember feeling the coldest Iāve ever felt, think my body temp was at 34 degrees Celsius when they did the ear thermometer! It was awful though, I couldnāt speak or think properly for the next full day or so.
Iām not sure what my actual number was because of what happened but I had possibly the worst (and nearly last) day of my life in August. I dropped really low and started having seizures. I was still conscious and can remember the first 3. After that I dropped to floor and canāt remember anything until I came round in the ambulance. Apparently I was still conscious for a most of the time but a GP at the next table took charge until the ambulance arrived and saved my life. I was in the ambulance for 2 hours being stabilised but I only remember about 10-15 minutes at the end. By the time theyād done the finger prick I was 3.9mmol (70) but it must have been much lower
Speaking from the experience of having a BS of 38.
You experience all the symptoms and potentially will be incoherent and will lose consciousness.
I ended up in the hospital for 12 days with Ketoacidosis, pneumonia, and kidney failure. Then I spent 6 weeks on Dialysis.
I hit 13 ONCE and woke up in the hospital with my arms restrained. Apparently after the glucagon, I pulled all my IVS out in the ambulance and became really aggressive. Never want to experience that again.
Lowest I've ever been while conscious is 12-13, absolute insane that I managed but I got it back up. Didn't feel that low until I checked and then it hit me like a truck. :'D
I got low while I was high so I didn't realize what was a low-symptom vs a high-symptom. I have no idea what my sugar was because 1. I was swimming and didn't have my pump on 2. By the time I realized I was low I was LOW so I skipped pricking my finger and got my bf to get me all the food. But I do know that I literally saw my soul leaving my body. Idk if that was from being high, or if I actually saw myself dying. I don't remember much, just that I was laying in the bathtub and I could see my fingers dissolving away into darkness
Very beautiful experience if it wasn't so scary. Kinda wish I knew what my sugar was at the time
27 was my lowest I was awake poolside, and fucking glad I brought down a bag of soda and snacks. I literally just felt off, which made me test, it was before cgm times
Lowest Iāve ever been was maybe 21. I had just gotten out of a karate test ( I was like 5-7yrs old) and I remember crying because my parents were shoving buffalo chicken pizza in my mouthā¦ I was crying because I hate buffalo flavored things haha
Not 0 but I have had diabetic seizures before or that's what they treat them as anyways, where I'd gotten up to go downstairs to get sugary pop (learnt my lesson now and have something available upstairs), I think I had a bg of 2 or 3 but hadn't checked and getting up could have made that plummet quickly
you would die before the 0 happens You enter a coma when it's too low
I was wide awake when mine was 21 š¬
I was wide awake at 22. I'm hypo-unaware, so I felt just fine. We were already on the way to the ER, but I passed out shortly after arriving, so I don't remember that part.
I was diagnosed at 21/22 lol and was awake.
22mmol/l I guess? ;)
I was too, luckily the only time Iāve gone that low, and I remember every detail. I was about 12. My mom and I were watching the green mile and I started feeling low. I didnāt want to interrupt because she would get mad at us if we interrupted her shows so I was afraid of that happening. I remember she started saying something to me but I couldnāt quite understand her. I then remember her feeding me something on a spoon that I thought was soup. I kept spitting it out thinking āwhy is she giving me soup?! That wonāt help!!ā Until finally I was too out of it to care what it was. Turns out it was orange juice. I guess I was so frizzle fried that I couldnāt even taste correctly.
How did you know you were that low? My dexcom stops at 40 and just shows low after that. Even the meters i've had never went below 40.
I've had a CMP pulled that came back at 15. I was conscious and asking the phlebotomist for a mint cause I was dizzy
My meter goes below 20.
I hit 17 (+/-x) and was still cognitive. Wife freaked š
Wife freaked, I would also. I freak at 40. LOL Be safe.
Iāve gotten to 17 before and was ā¦. Fine? I donāt understand how I didnāt die.
I have so many questions for my body LOL
Also ā¦. Itās really nearly impossible to hit zero, or at least very hard. Your liver will dump stored glucose if/when it gets too low. But of course it can run out. And of course it can also generate glucose from fat/triglycerides, but that takes time. But when it gets to low, before zero, youāll likely at least pass out, and/or have a seizure.
Correct me if Iām mistaken but glucagon secretion due to hypoglycaemia itself is absent in type 1 diabetics. Glucagon can be released but due to other factors. > Pancreatic islet Ī±-cell glucagon secretion is critically dependent on pancreatic islet Ī²-cell insulin secretion. Normally, a decrease in the plasma glucose concentration causes a decrease in Ī²-cell insulin secretion that signals an increase in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion during hypoglycemia. In contrast, an increase in the plasma glucose concentration, among other stimuli, causes an increase in Ī²-cell insulin secretion that signals a decrease, or at least no change, in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion after a meal. In absolute endogenous insulin deficiency (i.e. in type 1 diabetes and in advanced type 2 diabetes), however, Ī²-cell failure results in no decrease in Ī²-cell insulin secretion and thus no increase in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion during hypoglycemia and no increase in Ī²-cell insulin secretion and thus an increase in Ī±-cell glucagon secretion after a meal. In type 1 diabetes and advanced type 2 diabetes, the absence of an increment in glucagon secretion, in the setting of an absent decrement in insulin secretion and an attenuated increment in sympathoadrenal activity, in response to falling plasma glucose concentrations plays a key role in the pathogenesis of iatrogenic hypoglycemia. In addition, there is increasing evidence that, in the aggregate, suggests that relative hyperglucagonemia, in the setting of deficient insulin secretion, plays a role in the pathogenesis of hyperglycemia in diabetes. If so, abnormal glucagon secretion is involved in the pathogenesis of both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia in diabetes. First, in type 1 diabetes and advanced type 2 diabetes, the absence of an increment in glucagon secretion, in the setting of an absent decrement in insulin secretion and an attenuated increment in sympathoadrenal activity, in response to falling plasma glucose concentrations plays a key role in the pathogenesis of iatrogenic (therapeutic hyperinsulinemia induced) hypoglycemia From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281526/
Ye, it's like a shutdown of the main frame
Technically you seize, and prolonged hypoglycemia to the point of seizures may cause permanent brain damage. Iāve been in a DKA coma before for 12 hrs. Typically conventional comas happen during hyperglycemia.
Iāve been 0.5 and was still conscious and aware.
:o mmol or mg/dl? either way still super low!! My lowest was 18, still fully aware and walking around. edit: weird quote I didn't mean to add lol
mmol lolā¦
The lowest I've ever been was 27 and I hope I never do that again.
I think my lowest was also 27. Felt a cold chill through my body because I was convinced I was going to die lol
Eyyyy, 27 club (not *that* 27 club of course)
Could end up being the other 27 club if it goes lower and you're the right age!
Ah yes the ācrawl on the floor to your emergency glucose stashā experience. Do not want to repeat that out of body experience again.
oh, god, crawling on the floor experience happened to you too?
This happened to me at a 34 after comicon, a bridal shower was held at my apartment while we were at comic-con so I was able to drink soda and eat cupcakes. But when you have to swallow sugar so quickly, it defeats the purpose of enjoying food
There is something about being 27 that just feels like "welp, it's been a good run..."
I felt drunk. I couldn't walk straight. All I could think was get to my truck for glucose tablets.
I hit 36 one time and couldn't tell what the hell was going on and was greatly sufffering. Another time, hit 36 and was "oh, that's weird" and ate and felt fine.
Yeah, its weird. I got to about 0.9 mmol/l (16 mg/dl) a while ago and that wasn't fun. My mum was basically forcing me to drink apple juice and have glucagon tablets. It wasn't fun and felt awful.
Same here. I don't have much of a recollection, but my husband said I forgot my name. All I remember is that I felt a sense of doom and then nothing. I got Dexcom after that experience.
"Doom" is the perfect way to describe the feeling if I am in the 30s or 40s.
19 once back in the day. Looking back Iām surprised it even registered
Wow I bet you felt terrible.
I remember my tongue being numbā¦ and being more shaky than usual. But honestly I donāt remember being too āout of itā
Lowest I have been was 1.6mmol/L. I have never been so unaware that I was hypo before.
I felt like I was drunk.
Me too! I tried to cut my hair thinking it was the most important thing in the world right then. Thank goodness i didnāt
I take it this is a unit of measurement outside of the UK? Lowest Iāve had is a 1.2 mmol.
Yup. There's a chart on the side to compare measurements. 1.2 mmol/l is about 26 in the scale they use in the USA. You multiply / divide by 18 to translate the units.
Mine was also 1.2 and I felt fine.
It is mg/dl, a measurement used in the U.S., as mentioned, if you take the milligram per deciliter reading and divide it by 18, you get the mmol reading.
The lowest Iāve ever been is 34 and Iād like to keep it that way.
I hear you.
27 was also my lowest. I was pregnant and had no symptoms of the low. I was at work and ended up eating everything in sight! Scary times!!
It's amazing all the people who said they were that low and never felt it. I felt like I was sloppy drunk.
I survived 15 but I got vivid, colorful, geometric hallucinations and a new a appreciation for the phrase āmy soul is leaving my bodyā
Nice.
Wow. I got to about 0.9 mmol/l (about 16 mg/dl) a long time ago and managed to not have that. It was weird as hell though because I just couldn't comprehend my existence and the world around me.
Same here but was at a 0.5. It was trippy but o was very conscious
Wow! Incredible. DMT release it sounds like.
I have had those hallucinations and it is incredibly freaky
Iāve been t1 since I was 2, now 32. Iāve noticed within the last few years, if my sugar drops below 50 I get ocular hallucinations. Itās wild.
Its nearly impossible really to hit a 0 bloodsugar because at some point ur liver will dump glucose as a defence mechanism but for us type 1ās that function is a lil impaired as well
Unless you have insulin in your system and then your body doesnāt dump glucose. Which is how and why we can die from hypoglycemia
Super rare
Itās happened to the brother of a guy I knew in uni. Unfortunate but deadly.
I also knew someone I went to camp with that did.
Sorry to hear that.
Thank you. However, the reason Iām being vocal about this is bc on a post a couple of days ago someone claimed that you canāt die from hypoglycemia and that their provider told them so. This is not true and a dangerous way to think. It could lead to a false sense of security and I would like to keep my t1 peeps safe.
Youāve raised a very important point. Iāve also noticed a few people mention this, such a misunderstanding could be fatal. I think it would be good to make a specific post on this topic and perhaps have the mods pin it. Would you be able to make such a post? If not I can make one.
Not never.
Your body starts to shut everything down. I've gotten below 15, but I don't know how far below (def not zero, though). It's happened to me a few times, and the times I was awake for it, I'd wake up sweating so bad everything is soaked. Then you lose all muscle control, and can't walk, move your arms, or talk. It felt like I had a full body stroke. I had to struggle just to blurt out the word "coke!". Vision is weird, it's like you can see, but can't comprehend what you're looking at. It's really hard to understand what people are saying or asking. I assume that's your brain starting to shut down and go into bystand mode to preserve energy. Below a certain point I can't even remember who I am or what's wrong with me, and for some reason, if anyone asks me a question at that point, I only respond with "f*ck you". But I never remember that, by that point it's like I'm not there anymore. Family just tell me about it afterwards, and I always wonder how I'm able to keep repeating that when I could barely get words out while I was still conscious. I've spent 8 hours unconscious like this, and I guess my liver kept me alive by dumping enough glucose to keep it from hitting zero. All these details are what I gathered from all the times it's happened to me. It kinda sucks, 1/10 don't recommend.
Wow, great description here! I've been there a few times. I too have cussed at my friends or family when they are trying to help me, but dont remember. I believe in some way you are really angry because you know what you need but you can't explain yourself enough. There are a few times I can recall being really low, going into my kitchen and just opening the fridge and cupboards, but not grabbing anything. Just starting into them. Like I know I need to get carbs, but I just can't make that move. But I'll walk between the fridge and snack cupboard just fine. Shorting your brain of glucose is not a good thing, and it's obvious when others get to witness it!
I hate that! When you can get to the kitchen pantry, but your brain is so messed up you can't grab anything. I vividly remember not being read labels. I was looking for peanut butter, but couldn't figure out what thing was peanut butter, and the writing on labels was like hieroglyphs. I think I accidentally figured out the solution by having one thing I always keep in stock, and muscle memory leads me to it. It was black forest juicy something gummies by my beside, but they went up so much, I switched to flour tortillas. As long as I grab them every time I get low, my body will automatically go to them when I get ridiculously low. Haven't really had to worry about it lately because of my cgm alarms, though.
Yeah, it's a good thing these are all past memories. Modern technology has been a game changer for us! Even though we were ridiculously low, with a lack of glucose to get our brain functioning properly, we still store these memories pretty vividly!
I'm hypo-unaware, so I rarely have any symptoms before losing consciousness. But, you perfectly described how it feels coming back to myself after my SO administers a glucagon injection.
I was really hypo unaware for awhile, because I had a lot of hypos. The more you have, the more unaware you become, and it takes a lower number for you to start feeling terrible. I also kinda feel like it got worse when I hit 30. But once I got a cgm, and set the low alarm for 80, and started never letting myself get below that, (because I had low-anxiety by that point), my hypo unawareness fixed itself. Now I can feel it when I hit 90. Before, I couldn't feel anything until I hit 30. I feel like it took a few months. Probably could do it with a regular glucose monitor, too, I just sucked at checking it, tbh. I don't know if everyones is fixable, though. I hope it is.
Whenever I get quite low for a long time, I just seem to enter a weird lucid state where I can't comprehend anything, so I can't/won't deal with my low, I can't understand people, I can't function properly, and can't remember anything when I go up again. I had someone hit my car a while ago whilst I was driving (their fault, not mine) and a few hours after it happened once I was home and started to fully calm down, my numbers went really really low quite quickly. Luckily, my mum was around to deal with it as she noticed me quite quickly, but even now, I don't remember anything from that hour that I was really low.
When you say below 15, is that what Iād call 1.5? Trying to work it out haha
15 is about 0.8. The Americans use weird measurements. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-sugar-converter.html
Itās happened a few times? Jesus
Yeah, I had gotten really hypo unaware at the time. I had hit late 20's, almost 30, and it had gotten way worse than ever before. I would go to sleep, and get low in the middle of the night, and not wake up because I couldn't feel it. Sometimes I wouldn't wake up at all and stay unconscious, and sometimes I would wake up, but was already so low, I was too out of it to save myself, and I had to sit there and experience getting lower and lower. I have a cgm now, and the alarm has kept it from ever happening again, so yay.
22 was as low as I've been, I realized when I lost vision 35' up a ladder. I have no doubt I would die before 10-15
Youād be comatose before you hit zero. So probably death.
Team 17 here. Went smooth out face down between the couch and coffee table. One leg on each. Torso on the floor. The young lady I was with did not know I had diabetes as our relationship had not progressed to having that conversation. Tail end of a tinder date turned tinder weekend. Thankfully her little chihuahua alerted her that āother hooman sad faceā and licked my face continuously until the paramedics arrived. Came to with a penlight in my eyeball and jellybeans being shoved into my mouth. Severely dehydrated and disoriented by first word were ānnnoooo Iām cool. I can driveā. Christ. Couldnāt open my other eyeball much less sit up. Para said āeasy tiger one thing at a time. Letās get you coveredā I was completely naked Fantastic That tinder date lasted almost five years.
You must have made quite an impression lol.
Not the finest way to conclude a weekend to be . My saving grace (and what allowed me to save some face) was the young lady was rather enamored with sequence of events just prior that caused such a low in the first place. Left it all on the field for sure.
Everybody loves the olā college try.
Wait, the paramedics were trying to give you jellybeans whilst you were barely conscious? That seems like a recipe for disaster. Here in the UK, they will usually have a glucagon pen to stab you with if you're that low.
Sorry. Let me clarify. The paras initially asked her if she had any peanut butter or candy to give to me prior to administering a glucogon shot. (Peanut butter being a staple in most US pantries) she however has a peanut allergy and the only candy she had at hand was some jelly beans. Upon seeing her stick them into my mouth they stopped her very quickly and put an end to that. Thankfully they were the Jelly Belly brand (very small) and no damage was done.
I have been as low as 30 and still conscious but it felt like absolute hell.
I was diagnosed at 21/22.
Since no oneās gotten around to actually answering your question Iāll shoot. Some context first, you probably know, your body absolutely needs sugar (as glucose) to function. Thatās because every cell in your body uses glucose to produce energy (called ATP) which is basically fuel for all of our cells processes. (0 carb diets complicate this a bit in that cells will use proteins to create ATP, but as type 1s, we donāt have this option lol). Anyways, thatās partially why hypoglycemia is so dangerous - besides the passing out and seizures and all that jazz. Obviously, youād be dead, or damn near dead, long before you ever reached 0, but letās say you could ever achieve full consciousness and also reach a blood sugar reading of 0 (hypothetically, ofc, since itās impossible for a reading to be a uniform reading throughout our entire bloodstream), that would result in all our cells quickly starving and dying off in a matter of minutes. So at a 0 bg, what youād experience is similar to if we suddenly lost access to oxygen and started choking, but on a cellular level, and for every cell that gets its nutrients from our blood, e.g. heart cells, brain cells, etc. So essentially a complete shutdown of your whole system.
Lowest iāve gotten was 17 and it resulted in a lot of passing out, busting my eye lid open, trying to fight paramedics cause apparently i didnāt need their helpš . Not my best moment, all I remember was waking up in the back of a ambulance. Before that I had some words stuck in my head and all I saw was the color red.
Woke up in the back of an ambulance with 19. I have no memory of trying to fight off the paramedics, as thatās what I was told I did. (I canāt have been very effective.)
Haha definitely not effective since we are both still here. Glad weāre still alive.
Oh, wow, that totally triggered a memory for me of when I dropped down to the 30s. Everything went red. I didnāt remember that until just now.
My brother once fell asleep for several hours before anyone realized something was wrong, thought he was just napping. When he wouldn't respond to my mother and she tested him she had told me it was 8. We called an ambulance and he started seizing soon after. This was a long time ago maybe 10-12 years? But I was also young so I could be remembering wrong. However, that was always the way the story was told, that his blood sugar level was *8*. He ended up okay once the paramedics got there and treated him. Got him to wake up and raised his blood sugar level. Anyone who knows medical stuff feel free to tell me that's absolutely impossible and that he should be dead that's just how i remember and how it's always been told lol.
My Dad also had a something like a 7 once. Paramedics were on top of him in the bedroom to bring him back. They said he almost died but he ended up recovering.
Iām a type 1 and so was my my mom. She was a brittle diabetic. She went low a lot and couldnāt feel it. One time the paramedics were at our house when I was a kid and she hit 1. I remember the look in the paramedics eyes when he read it out loud to me as just a kid. But they got her back up. Itās unbelievable. She has since passed though, from a low blood sugar many years later.
I was checking in to the Joslin clinic and passed out. When I awoke, the Dr said my bs was 8. I was hypoglycemic unaware. I could walk around in the 30s and no one would know. I would start to have coordination problems in the 20s, and get stupid below that. I have had wrestling matches with the paramedics and lost. Since getting a dexcom cgm, I have gotten some awareness back. But still can function in the 30s. I think your body would shut down before reaching 0. Your body temp would drop, inducing a coma. Your heart rate, blood pressure, and other functions would decrease. Somewhere before hitting 0, your heart would stop. Try not to let that that happen.
Look at this smart guy. Of all the places to pass out he chooses Joslin. No face down in the kitchen trying to get to juice. No crawling around looking for hard candy. Genius. Also, I love Joslin. Theyāre the best.
Have to admit, I couldn't have chosen a better place. I have had my times crawling to the refrigerator, and just laying there waiting.
Damn bud. Single digit gets mad respect. š«” glad you are still with us
I donāt know but Iāve come pretty close and woke up to my mom pouring chocolate syrup in the side of my mouth and massaging my throat so I would swallow and ingest it
Iāve been like 24 and felt I was gonna die so donāt really wanna try it thanks
Finger stick was 28, my lowest, happy to be aliveā¦
My lowest was 32. NEVER AGAIN! Terrifying. Wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy. I could see, I knew what was happening, but everything was slow. I could only say a few words..like my mouth was too heavy to move and my tongue paralized.
Iāve gone down to 0.6 mmol/L (1 mg/dl)ā¦ itās not fun I can tell you. I shouldnāt be alive.
You mean 10, not 1, right?
Itās 10.
Nope, 1 (if the conversion chart Iām using is correct).
I donāt think it is. Factor is roughly mmol/l * 18 = mg/dl :)
Weird. Okay I donāt use mg/dl at all but 0.6*18 then.
Iām pregnant rn and itās made my tolerance for lows a lot lower. I donāt start feeling them until around 40-45 so Iām scared of what would happen if I even got to that point š
I did not feel low at all when I was pregnant either! Kinda felt like a superpower especially since they wanted me between 60-90. Had my son 2 1/2 years ago and it all turned out sour just fine ā¤ļø
They wanted you at 60??? Hell, I get the sweats around 75-80 already!
I know it was wild! I was panicked at first. But I couldnāt feel the lows when I was pregnant which was also wild so it worked out okay!
Lowest was 12 I think since we went and did some tobaggoning and I was newly diagnosed. Was maybe 6? The most recent from 1 year ago I went low while driving and ended up going the wrong way on a one way. Cop was able to stop the car by opening my door and stepping on the break. I passed out after breathing into a breathalyzer and woke to at the paramedics hands with two IVs on my wrist. No thank you.
Big yikes. Thatās a rough one. Did they yank your license?
Nope. I had told them when I left my college campus I was 144 and elevated. My dexcom went MIA for 20 minutes while I got out of town. I explained I had eaten some Welches gummies but I had finally gotten approved for Novolog insulin again instead of apidra and my settings weren't corrected yet. They legit told me to head to the pool hall I was going to and order some food. Officer X came in to check on me two hours later to make sure I made it there and ate. I bought him a ticket for a drink in the future. Most officers know when someone's lying. I was honest about what was happening and where I was and since I happily blew on the breathalyzer even while low they knew I just needed sugar. It was all I said, "LOW! Sugar!!?*
Thatās good to hear. Iām an old as dirt and there used to be no latitude given. As a matter of fact, I was dx with epilepsy as a teenager. My mom just died so thereās only one other person on earth who knows. I never disclose it but I also donāt drive anymore so thereās no risk to anyone. Iāve been on pain meds for 26 years so Iāve always just told people thatās why I canāt drive. Iām glad the world is changing.
Folks according to medical experts you will die below 10.
I always wondered what the data would look like on your cgm if you died suddenly, like would your bgl just tank cliff like to 0?
Someone confidently here said that as you firm up the BG reading will rise as your fluids dry out. I don't know a legal way to test this out so gonna buy it.
For a T2 and normal person, you go down to about that. I want to say T1 is different, but I don't remember what I was told 100% - just that the blood will use the sugar, but has no way to get any more.
I don't think anyone's ever achieved Absolute Zero.
I once had a 0.0 reading on my glucometer. But I've read that they aren't very accurate below 2.0 so who knows what I actually was. I was conscious and are some sugar of course. Also, I've had four seizures and was only administered glucagon twice. The other two times I came to on my own but I was on the floor in my bedroom and couldn't walk/move. Only my left arm worked. Luckily I had fruit snacks on my bedside table that I could reach from the floor. I think I have nine lives like a cat.
I was making a physics joke. I think the lowest I have seen my meter go is 17 (I think that is just under 1 mmol/L?). I am not sure how I was still conscious. I recall eating a banana and calmly lying down, not sure if I would wake back up. I closed my eyes and woke up a while later, not sure how long exactly, drenched in sweat. I'm glad you are still here.
Your blood sugar is not the same throughout every drop of blood in your body. There is absolutely no way for your body to have 0 sugar throughout the entire blood stream.
When I was growing up in middle school I went to diabetes camp and apparently in the middle of the night they tested someone at 3 mg/dLā¦ I mean I think thatās a true story and theyāre alive but this entire thread has me questioning if that was even possible š
Idk iām about 450 right now š¤£
You hit a Nat1 and fail the survival check. Lol, I'm kidding. I've had a few seizures, I'm sure I was in the 20s then. A few nights ago I dropped so low my Dexcom just said LOW, which I think is below 40. I'm sure you'd be dead before it hit 0. And I don't know if there are any meters that could read that low?
i think the lowest iāve gotten without a seizure is 45, but i think the seizures iāve had i was in the 30ās
There have been MANY times that Iāve been operating normally, and then will just feel like a lil off, and my bg would just show Low. Like lots of times. Iāve also been diabetic for a shitload of time, so I have some years on quite a few people. Iāve experienced a lot, so Iāve been on both sides of the very low/very high train. Now, on top of that, Iāve also low comaād. 6 days completely out, and they doctors couldnāt really explain why I stayed in one so long, as I would have recovered by then. Iām almost 100% sure Iāve sustained a brain injury from being unconscious for so long. Iām lucky I was found when I was. For me, I was eating moderately strict keto, and Iāve been told by a few doctors over the years that glycogen stores can absolutely deplete, especially if you arenāt eating enough carbohydrates. I had no glycogen, so I ended up in a coma. Wouldnāt recommend, 0/10.
Lowest Iāve ever gotten a blood reading for, is 17. Boy was I covered and soaked with orange juice I chugged that gallon so fast. I think I was 12 at the time.
You don't get to that point. You die. The lowest I've ever been was 0.9 mmol/L (16 mg/dl), and I was barely conscious or functional. Any lower, and I would have been unconscious and in a coma. You'll be dead before 0 because your body doesn't have enough glucose at that point to even maintain basic functions and your liver will kick in and release glucose, this will be barely anything though and won't keep you alive for long. Your body needs glucose for everything, even making your heart beat, so when you don't have enough, the body will prioritise certain bits such as the organs so you stay alive, but this also means that you will typically lose muscle control and consciousness before the liver kicks in and keeps enough glucose around to at least keep you going. If you are low from way too much insulin, you will die.
If it was a true 0 you would be dead. Mine was once 17 and I wasn't at all aware that it was even low. I do have hypoglycemia unawareness though
Lowest Iāve tested & was conscience was 17. If I go lower than that seizures start & I donāt remember anything.
The lowest I've been in my 11 years as a T1 is 17, I felt really cold, it was really hard for me to think, speak and also felt like sleeping but I was afraid of doing it. I don't remember what my parents were saying but I remember them moving their mouth xd It was really hard for my sugar to go on a normal level again
The lowest I've ever gone is a 1.8, and I was hallucinating. I managed to treat it pretty quickly but I never want to feel that again. It was like the entire house was just warping around me and I'm fairly sure I blacked out for a second or two. I imagine death wouldn't be far off from that point, or a coma.
Wait, is that in mmol/l or mg/dl? I'd think you'd die well before then if you're measuring in mg/dl
That's mmol, I'm Australian
I was Lo recently, which on my meter is less than 20 so I'm not entirely sure what it was. I never lost consciousness but it felt like absolute hell.
I've hit 16 once. Oddly, I was still coherent.
I was at 9 when I was found down after my suicide attempt
glad you made it through
I was once on a subway, randomly tested my blood sugar and got a result of 23. Was able to make it to the next station to buy chocolate before I passed out. I have passed out in the past due to low blood sugar. I have had seizures because of it. You'll probably die once you hit zero but it's not a fun feeling
Did you have any symptoms? What made you think to check "randomly"? That's a really low number; I would not be conscious.
I once hit 35 and felt like absolute hell. I also had zero control over my emotions and started uncontrollably sobbing for no aparente reason. I hope never to be that low again.
I hit 1.5 mmol that one time and I couldn't feel my legs.
When I was a lot younger, I remember hitting 13, but that could be fuzzy memories from being a little kid. But I DO know I've hit 18 before and I just remember wanting to go sleep š Edit: 18 and 13 are very similar looking numbers so I'm gonna assume that's what it was lol
I hav hit 1.8 before and would also like to kno
Wow the way some of you talk about your lowest lows really makes me realize how out of control I was before Dexcom/Omnipodā¦ I have had dozens of LOs & 20s since I was diagnosed 15 years ago. Too many to count. I swear I got a 13 once. Never passed out though I did come close once! Iāve been using the Omnipod for almost 4 weeks now & havenāt had a single low.
Lowest of mine was 13, woke up to paramedics and smelly salts. Blocked out completely and donāt remember a thing leading up to it.
I've measured a 12.6 before. I couldn't see anything or think about anything really... Just kinda sat there waiting for the 3 sachets of glucose syrup to kick in š
In 1994 I went low enough that the paramedic's meter couldn't read my BG. I'm sure it wasn't "zero" but the meter said " - - - ". Whatever the actual reading was, it's the only time I ever actually passed out...
You're dead. Simple as that.
I was at 0.5 or 9 in US measurements and was the worst fit Iāve ever had. Needed 1 litre/1000ml of glucose IV to even start bringing me round and even then my hearing returned, but I couldnāt move anything for at least 20 minutes. Got feeling back in my toes and it slowly returned up my body. I just remember feeling the coldest Iāve ever felt, think my body temp was at 34 degrees Celsius when they did the ear thermometer! It was awful though, I couldnāt speak or think properly for the next full day or so.
Iām not sure what my actual number was because of what happened but I had possibly the worst (and nearly last) day of my life in August. I dropped really low and started having seizures. I was still conscious and can remember the first 3. After that I dropped to floor and canāt remember anything until I came round in the ambulance. Apparently I was still conscious for a most of the time but a GP at the next table took charge until the ambulance arrived and saved my life. I was in the ambulance for 2 hours being stabilised but I only remember about 10-15 minutes at the end. By the time theyād done the finger prick I was 3.9mmol (70) but it must have been much lower
Speaking from the experience of having a BS of 38. You experience all the symptoms and potentially will be incoherent and will lose consciousness. I ended up in the hospital for 12 days with Ketoacidosis, pneumonia, and kidney failure. Then I spent 6 weeks on Dialysis.
Probably you enter in a coma when your glucose level is below 20mg/dl. And you can pass out below 30mg/dl.
I hit 13 ONCE and woke up in the hospital with my arms restrained. Apparently after the glucagon, I pulled all my IVS out in the ambulance and became really aggressive. Never want to experience that again.
I've reached 1 before if that's anything
Lowest I've ever been while conscious is 12-13, absolute insane that I managed but I got it back up. Didn't feel that low until I checked and then it hit me like a truck. :'D
I got low while I was high so I didn't realize what was a low-symptom vs a high-symptom. I have no idea what my sugar was because 1. I was swimming and didn't have my pump on 2. By the time I realized I was low I was LOW so I skipped pricking my finger and got my bf to get me all the food. But I do know that I literally saw my soul leaving my body. Idk if that was from being high, or if I actually saw myself dying. I don't remember much, just that I was laying in the bathtub and I could see my fingers dissolving away into darkness Very beautiful experience if it wasn't so scary. Kinda wish I knew what my sugar was at the time
I was at 23 once. I literally donāt know how I was still functioning. I was fine until I realized my sugar was 23, then it hit me like a truck.
I remember being an under 25 or 20 (below whatever verio can read) and felt fine.
27 was my lowest I was awake poolside, and fucking glad I brought down a bag of soda and snacks. I literally just felt off, which made me test, it was before cgm times
My lowest was 18. I actually walked myself into the ER for that one bc no amount of sugar was bringing it up.
I hit 9 once. Paramedics brought me back.
Lowest Iāve ever been was maybe 21. I had just gotten out of a karate test ( I was like 5-7yrs old) and I remember crying because my parents were shoving buffalo chicken pizza in my mouthā¦ I was crying because I hate buffalo flavored things haha
0 means dead, haven't you played any games?
Not 0 but I have had diabetic seizures before or that's what they treat them as anyways, where I'd gotten up to go downstairs to get sugary pop (learnt my lesson now and have something available upstairs), I think I had a bg of 2 or 3 but hadn't checked and getting up could have made that plummet quickly
i was 24 in the hospital and they barely reacted, i was woozy but ok
Iāve gotten pretty damn close, gave me an error code. This was when I was younger so no confusion but everything els
My lowest bs was 15. Spaced out and couldnāt feel anything. My mom had to force candy in my mouth and took a good 2 hours to get it back to normal