{"id":35207,"date":"2014-01-29T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35207"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:44:18","slug":"hypoglycemia-living-on-the-edge-with-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35207","title":{"rendered":"Hypoglycemia: Living On The Edge With Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hypoglycemia-BG-35.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35213 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hypoglycemia-BG-35.jpg\" alt=\"Hypoglycemia - BG 35\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hypoglycemia-BG-35.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hypoglycemia-BG-35-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hypoglycemia is dangerous. It can actually be deadly. But somehow when I have a real episode of hypoglycemia, I mean a truly low low, the kind that wipes you out, it seems like just another part of the day. It has a very significant physical effect, but emotionally it doesn\u2019t really register.\u00a0 No post trauma or even much reflection, although it is essentially a near death experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Last Saturday night I went out for a post <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/exercise-blogs\/tiberias-marathon-2014-a-humbling-experience\/35115\/\">marathon<\/a> celebration with a few of the guys I run with. \u00a0I don\u2019t go out or drink beer very often, but I decided that I deserved to have some fun, and since I wasn\u2019t in the mood for any serious drinking, I joined the crowd and had a couple beers. I also had a Caesar salad topped with grilled chicken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I bolused three times, once for each beer (<a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/food-nutrition-blogs\/beer-and-diabetes-do-they-mix\/27167\/\" target=\"_blank\">something I\u2019ve learned I must do<\/a>) and for the salad (I ate all the croutons J.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At around 10:30 I was tired and decided I was going home. I had planned to walk home (it\u2019s only a mile and a half) but when my friend offered to drive me, I didn\u2019t refuse.\u00a0 But I did tell him to let me off a few blocks from home so he wouldn\u2019t have to go too far out of his way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I enjoyed the fresh air and felt good, well, at first I felt good. When I reached the turn onto my street I suddenly felt very weak, like I was about to fall. I started to sweat and realized I was going low. I continued walking thinking to myself, like during the marathon, <em>just don\u2019t stop<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Then I realized I didn\u2019t have a house key. <em>Shit, I hope Jess isn\u2019t sleeping.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I took out my phone and started to text Jess, with a shaky hand, to \u201cplease open\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As I reached the door, she opened it. Without saying much I headed for the kitchen counter, where I had left my glucose meter, and checked my blood sugar. It was 35.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I was totally out of control, and I felt like I was about to pass out. I grabbed a mini Snickers bar from the kids\u2019 treat drawer. Then I ate some fruit. And then a mini Twix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After checking my blood sugar a few times to making sure I was on the way up, I went to the couch and fell asleep.\u00a0 I was sound asleep until I felt Jessica pulling off my shoes.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really remember what else happened.\u00a0 Somehow I made it to bed. \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/jessica-apple\/blogs\/diabetes-management-blogs\/st-happens-so-does-hypoglycemia\/35177\/\">Jessica has a more accurate account of the evening.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The next day the roller-coaster continued. I woke up high, bolused, dropped to 44\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That evening Guy asked me who had the last Snickers bar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI did,\u201d I said<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cReally?\u201d Guy asked in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cYup,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWas it good?\u201d He asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019m not sure he understood, but not being able to remember what the candy bar tastes like made me realize how serious and dangerous the situation was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":35213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[264],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hypoglycemia: Living On The Edge With Diabetes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hypoglycemia is dangerous. 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