happy to see you back on the channel. Your information literally saved me as I had no idea what all was happening in my body with the onset of diabetes. Your Sugar High channel educated me, and helped me through those early days. I do remember so well, my pre-diabetes days were filled with Hypoglycemia lows.. with a couple episodes of passing out totally...this is soooo important for people to be aware both as they are using insulin and before the onset of diabetes!
As a T2D, I experienced hypoglycemia when I was taking mealtime insulin. I'm no longer taking a mealtime dose of insulin, and use a CGM to more often check my glucose levels, and found it much easier for constant monitoring! I still have to be careful overnight as that is when I am most likely to experience low glucose levels due to a longer stretch without food!
I’ve been type 1 for 33 years & and a CGM imo is the best thing ever, saving all the finger prick tests that I hated & forgot to do. I always carry a red Coke with me to treat a hypo if needed
You mentioned you wanted experiences: I've been using insulin for nearly 54 years and I can't tell you the number of times I've gone hypoglycemic before realizing it. The symptoms you describe are dead on correct. For my first 34 years there wasn't any at home glucometers or CGM's. One tested your urine for sugar which was totally useless for doing any insulin dosing or hypo prevention. I got on a pump and a glucometer which helped for correction and meal bolusing. But didn't help all than much with the hypo's. Physical activity, stress, not feeling well, and the unpredictable nature of diabetes, all contributed one way or the other to not being in proper control. I had hypo's occur four times while driving. One I was able to get myself out of trouble after driving aimlessly in the country for a couple of hours. The other three I was found unresponsive stopped at a traffic light. Recall other times just aimlessly going in circles on something I was working on. Other times knowing what I needed to do but couldn't get my body to do it. Like spastic body movements that made it difficult to get to where I needed to go for help. Praise the creator's of CGM's. Setting the low and high limits of glucose readings to give ample warning of hypo's and hyper's is a major game changer. Paramedics needed to be called a number of times during the night. Now enter the closed loop CGM/insulin pump system and what a major improvement. I went from a low glucose warning 2-5 times a week to zero in the last 4 years! I did have a prescription for gluagon. At the time the shelf life was 6 months and it wasn't inexpensive. Believe it was used once on me. I haven't had a Rx for it since getting on a CGM. Currently 75 years old and still don't have diabetes mastered by a long shot. Today's glucose readings are history and can't be changed. Tomorrow I'll try again to find out how well diabetes and I can play better together. I know diabetes was graded in school: "Doesn't play well with others."
What a wonderful comment. Thank you so much for sharing this. You’ve certainly seen so many generational changes and milestone developments in diabetes management. I wish you the absolute best
Hi. If there are actual, measured episodes of hypoglycemia in a non-diabetic person (who would presumably not be on any medication that would explain/cause the hypoglycemia), I’d recommend checking with his/her healthcare provider to check insulin and C-peptide levels. Insulin production can be elevated in someone with insulin resistance, but depending on how high the level is, we sometimes need to start looking for other possible sources of that excessive insulin production.
hi, I have secondary adrenal insufficiency that I discovered January 2024. I also have hypoglycemia unaware which sometimes goes with this disease. My insurance wouldn’t cover the Dexcom originally except that every once in a while, which is at least once a week my hypoglycemia goes down into 54 or less my primary doctor first with the insurance company to give the Dexcom six so I would know when I was dipping. The hyperglycemia for me has no symptoms at all except when the alarm goes off, do you have any patience like this? I was in my doctors office and my glucose level was 57 and she checked it and it was between the hypoglycemia and the secondary adrenal insufficiency I have been going crazy trying to figure everything out. Any suggestions? I would appreciate it very much because I have read everything. I could possibly read on it and I have a a bracelet and I have told everybody in my family about it in case something happens thank you.
I’m LADA & have had 3 consecutive days of lows through OMNIPOD 5G in tandem w/G7. I did not feel the 3rd hypoglycemic episode till it got to 40. It took 8oz of OJ, 15 minutes later a coffee cake square, & 15 minutes later 3 twizzlers to come back up to 70 I do have the basqimi on hand the nasal glycogen but it makes me siiiiiiiiiiick for a good 3 days…
If my last c-peptide was .5, GAD65 and antibodies were normal and negative am I a type 1 or type 2? The last Endocrinologist said type 2 but the current guy says type 1? I'm on the Medtronic system.
Due to a series of events, my sugar was regularly very high over this past summer. We've been using Insulin and better meds to get my baseline down, and I experienced-- for the first time in my life-- the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Shaking, brain fog, fatigue, you name it. I was next door to a restaurant and got a milkshake to rapidly fix it, but my continuous monitor in my arm only ever said it was 126 at the lowest. Did my body think 126 was hypo because it had been used to 400's? Or maybe the monitor was wrong? I didn't have my finger stick with me at the time. Do you have any thoughts? Anything I should know if this happens again?
When I'm high for a significant amount of time, my "normal Bg" can sometime FEEL like I'm low....once your Bgs are stable regularly you'll start to feel when your low like "normal"
I agree with what @clg82 posted- there's a possibility that you were experiencing "false low", where you're not ACTUALLY low, but your body has forgotten what normal is and you get the symptoms of hypoglycemia when you drop to normal. There is ALSO the possibility that your glucose was indeed low, but your CGM hadn't displayed it yet. The CGM number is usually about 15 minutes behind what your actual glucose level is. So we usually recommend checking with a finger stick (if you can) if your CGM reading and your symptoms don't match up.
happy to see you back on the channel. Your information literally saved me as I had no idea what all was happening in my body with the onset of diabetes. Your Sugar High channel educated me, and helped me through those early days. I do remember so well, my pre-diabetes days were filled with Hypoglycemia lows.. with a couple episodes of passing out totally...this is soooo important for people to be aware both as they are using insulin and before the onset of diabetes!
Welcome back, videos are always very informative. I started Jardiance after watching your video explaining how it works and it’s been amazing.
As a T2D, I experienced hypoglycemia when I was taking mealtime insulin. I'm no longer taking a mealtime dose of insulin, and use a CGM to more often check my glucose levels, and found it much easier for constant monitoring! I still have to be careful overnight as that is when I am most likely to experience low glucose levels due to a longer stretch without food!
I’ve been type 1 for 33 years & and a CGM imo is the best thing ever, saving all the finger prick tests that I hated & forgot to do. I always carry a red Coke with me to treat a hypo if needed
Totally agree. CGM becoming cheaper and more widely available has really changed so many people's lives.
@@sugarhighchannel I’m in uk so it’s free. I got a medical exemption card so don’t pay for prescriptions. Long live the NHS
You mentioned you wanted experiences: I've been using insulin for nearly 54 years and I can't tell you the number of times I've gone hypoglycemic before realizing it. The symptoms you describe are dead on correct. For my first 34 years there wasn't any at home glucometers or CGM's. One tested your urine for sugar which was totally useless for doing any insulin dosing or hypo prevention. I got on a pump and a glucometer which helped for correction and meal bolusing. But didn't help all than much with the hypo's. Physical activity, stress, not feeling well, and the unpredictable nature of diabetes, all contributed one way or the other to not being in proper control. I had hypo's occur four times while driving. One I was able to get myself out of trouble after driving aimlessly in the country for a couple of hours. The other three I was found unresponsive stopped at a traffic light. Recall other times just aimlessly going in circles on something I was working on. Other times knowing what I needed to do but couldn't get my body to do it. Like spastic body movements that made it difficult to get to where I needed to go for help.
Praise the creator's of CGM's. Setting the low and high limits of glucose readings to give ample warning of hypo's and hyper's is a major game changer.
Paramedics needed to be called a number of times during the night. Now enter the closed loop CGM/insulin pump system and what a major improvement. I went from a low glucose warning 2-5 times a week to zero in the last 4 years!
I did have a prescription for gluagon. At the time the shelf life was 6 months and it wasn't inexpensive. Believe it was used once on me. I haven't had a Rx for it since getting on a CGM.
Currently 75 years old and still don't have diabetes mastered by a long shot. Today's glucose readings are history and can't be changed. Tomorrow I'll try again to find out how well diabetes and I can play better together. I know diabetes was graded in school: "Doesn't play well with others."
What a wonderful comment. Thank you so much for sharing this. You’ve certainly seen so many generational changes and milestone developments in diabetes management. I wish you the absolute best
Very helpful, Many thanks.
Welcome Back! (Again)
See you in six months for my next video. 😂
Hi, thanks for the great video. I'm wondering about nocturnal hypo in someone who is not living with diabetes but might have insulin resistant.
Hi. If there are actual, measured episodes of hypoglycemia in a non-diabetic person (who would presumably not be on any medication that would explain/cause the hypoglycemia), I’d recommend checking with his/her healthcare provider to check insulin and C-peptide levels. Insulin production can be elevated in someone with insulin resistance, but depending on how high the level is, we sometimes need to start looking for other possible sources of that excessive insulin production.
hi, I have secondary adrenal insufficiency that I discovered January 2024. I also have hypoglycemia unaware which sometimes goes with this disease. My insurance wouldn’t cover the Dexcom originally except that every once in a while, which is at least once a week my hypoglycemia goes down into 54 or less my primary doctor first with the insurance company to give the Dexcom six so I would know when I was dipping. The hyperglycemia for me has no symptoms at all except when the alarm goes off, do you have any patience like this? I was in my doctors office and my glucose level was 57 and she checked it and it was between the hypoglycemia and the secondary adrenal insufficiency I have been going crazy trying to figure everything out. Any suggestions? I would appreciate it very much because I have read everything. I could possibly read on it and I have a a bracelet and I have told everybody in my family about it in case something happens thank you.
I’m LADA & have had 3 consecutive days of lows through OMNIPOD 5G in tandem w/G7. I did not feel the 3rd hypoglycemic episode till it got to 40. It took 8oz of OJ, 15 minutes later a coffee cake square, & 15 minutes later 3 twizzlers to come back up to 70 I do have the basqimi on hand the nasal glycogen but it makes me siiiiiiiiiiick for a good 3 days…
If my last c-peptide was .5, GAD65 and antibodies were normal and negative am I a type 1 or type 2? The last Endocrinologist said type 2 but the current guy says type 1? I'm on the Medtronic system.
Due to a series of events, my sugar was regularly very high over this past summer. We've been using Insulin and better meds to get my baseline down, and I experienced-- for the first time in my life-- the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Shaking, brain fog, fatigue, you name it. I was next door to a restaurant and got a milkshake to rapidly fix it, but my continuous monitor in my arm only ever said it was 126 at the lowest. Did my body think 126 was hypo because it had been used to 400's? Or maybe the monitor was wrong? I didn't have my finger stick with me at the time. Do you have any thoughts? Anything I should know if this happens again?
When I'm high for a significant amount of time, my "normal Bg" can sometime FEEL like I'm low....once your Bgs are stable regularly you'll start to feel when your low like "normal"
I agree with what @clg82 posted- there's a possibility that you were experiencing "false low", where you're not ACTUALLY low, but your body has forgotten what normal is and you get the symptoms of hypoglycemia when you drop to normal.
There is ALSO the possibility that your glucose was indeed low, but your CGM hadn't displayed it yet. The CGM number is usually about 15 minutes behind what your actual glucose level is. So we usually recommend checking with a finger stick (if you can) if your CGM reading and your symptoms don't match up.
These devices are very expensive
Oh how I've missed that prickly beard.....and what if I'm naturally irritable? :)