We have asked her if she remembers how she feels right before she "forgets what she was doing", which is how she first catagorized her blackouts...she just couldn't remember. She says she doesn't know how she feels before yet, but we are trying to get her to pay attention.
Her problem is that she is like a whirling dervish and just never stops...when she spends the night with me, she wouldn't go to sleep before 1:30 AM, if I let her make the rules!
Even Kailey's "coach" told us in the hospital when she was first diagnosed that whenever he sees one of his "kids", he can't tell by their demeanor anything about their blood sugar...
I have had times when Kailey would be laying down more than usual, so I will take her BS...and she will over 300---which USUALLY causes her to be cranky and argumentative...so we just can't tell...
And you are right about it dropping fast..I have tested her at over 250 at lunch time, and by 5:00 PM, had to give her coke because she has gotten so low---and yet her diet and insulin doesn't vary at all...
You give the BEST pep talks....I just have no way of thanking you enough for this, and telling you how much it means to me that you have taken the time to discuss this with me...
U R the BEST!
sleuth
It is confusing to 'well persons' how to view what they see in a diabetic.
The highs DO bring on lethargy and the desire to lie down -
I was a Department Secretary in a major hospital, though, and kept going like Energizer Bunny, even when I had 2-3 insulin reactions in a single day - 7 to 12 insulin reactions every week of every year for years.
With coffee privileges in the Physicians Lounge in my position, I interacted with many of them and others keenly observed me, so unique a case, able to withstand what most cannot.
As for "and yet her diet and insulin doesn't vary at all..." tx, do please grasp the fact EXERCISE can cause the drops!!
That was definitely so in my case, walking all over a 6 floors plus basement hospital in my job.
Is she not on a sliding scale of insulin for the food she is about to eat, and taught how to adjust the dosage knowing she will be more active and need LESS insulin injected??
NO body is always level 24/7!!
I even use a sliding scale for the Lantus (24-hour level), and always for the Humalog given AFTER meals, rather than before, based on what I actually have ingested and plan to do physically...and remember that housework seriously counts as exercise....I tread carefully, needless to say.