NIco,you are correct o all of you points.   I posted to
get the argument back to clinica;l  diabetes.

If I am violent or disturbed, it an indication for 911.
When I am in the nightmare mode it is a strange world.
Every thing is moving and I am trying to hang on.  As
I recover a first it is all white,  then I see outlines.
And slowly I see real things but it is very strange.

The real world returns and I fell like an old rag.

The cost of my 911 runs run in the $700  range.  But
it seem to be a good setup for all emergencies.

They have a communication link to a doctor and
before you reach the hospital they are ready

Now I do MDI and let the blood sugar run a bit higher.
Stable now most of the time
.
Now for several years the complications seem
to be stable.. Other problems have come up
which has me very pissed.

Some docs should grow up or become a stock
broker.

                                     Guy

A discussion like this might be useful for some
new to this game.   For me it was one hell
of a scare to have  a severe hypo and not
know what was happening.

Thanks  for this input.  We had more of this type of posting in the
past.. The increase of very mild T@'s ave changed things.

At a blood sugar of 40 I as very normal recently. A bit
chilled and knew thing were not normal.  Time for a couple
of glucose tablets and to be very calm.

The serious problem is a hypo when driving.  When I drove,
the thing was to get off of the road pronto.  Then get n
the glucose.    I quit driving when I found myself on the
wrong side of the road one day.

Oh yes, Mona is very good to me.  She has a problem
child in me.but does her job very well.
                                                     Guy

Heh. Years ago, when I was having a rough time for various reasons involving
a bad breakup and not taking good care, I had a problem in a hospital
cafeteria. I couldn't bring my much-needed milk to my lips without spilling
it, so I asked the cafeteria worker for a straw. They ignored my request. (I
thought that was rude: I worked there, had been eating lunch there for six
months, and they can't get a guy with crutches and a cast on his leg a
straw?)

So the second one I asked, instead of getting a straw, trotted off to get
the employee nurse. Bad, bad, bad move. The nurse hadn't gotten to deal with
a real honest to ghod medical issue in years, and was way too excited.
Summoned a wheelchair, had me wheeled aside, called the vampiers in to take
my blood, and wouldn't give me the juice I asked for without getting blood
drawn and tested first, said she'd have someone get my glucometer from my
office downstairs but didn't do it. I finally saw someone from my office
passing, called them over, sent him for my glucometer, and someone else from
my office grabbed me some OJ.

By this point the nurse has gotten blood drawn, my glucometer is in, I'm
sucking OJ, and I test while she's telling me "oh, those aren't that
accurate" and I'm saying "but yours will take an hour and a half", which she
denied, saying it was marked stat. As it turned out, she didn't get results
for three hours. (I knew the hospital's lab better than she did.) Our
numbers matched: 22 mg/dL. I had been getting more twitchy and incoherent
during the 10 minutes or so while the drama played, and I had *just* gotten
juice in my hands, after all the requests.

As soon as I got enough juice in me, I refused treatment from the crazy
nurse lady on the grounds that she was overdoing it wildly.

I'm fairly scary. Even while quite out of it, I can often answer the
standard emergency questions. Or while slightly out of it, I'll tell htem my
vitals and try to save them the trouble of measuring it. I did that sort of
work for a while. This led to enormous fun when I broke my leg, because I
rattled off vitals (with a very good guess at my blood pressure from feeling
my own wrist pulse!) and had harsh words for them when they tried to put my
clearly broken and displaced ankle in a standard box splint. It was too bent
to go in the box: If they were going to get fancy, they'd have to use a Hare
traction splint that grabs the ankle and *pulls* the leg back into alignment
in a metal frame, and since we were all right behind a major Boston hospital
there was no point in trying to set it: just put it on pillows and take me
around the corner., or better yet wheel me in the back door.

Probably. Did you have a stunning headache and nausea after that?

And yeah, details can get pretty fuzzy at that time.

OUCH. Yeah, that sucks. I'm getting fonder of the "test and do Humalog at
every meal" approach used by my daugher, and which I'm easing into under
Lantus and Humalog. It seems to help prevent misadventures by not having the
peaks of, say, NPH lurking if you mis-handle an individual meal.

for some reason I got the impression that you were a type 2 newbie.  

Type 1 rule of 15 for hypos.
if you feel hypo and can test your BG, do so, then consume 15 grams of
fast carbs and retest in 15 minutes.  If BG is still low consume 15
grams of fast carbs and retest in 15 minutes.

repeat until BG returns to normal.  Then eat something like a sandwich
with cheese and meat.  This will prevent you from having a second hypo
when the fast carbs burn off, especially if you over calculated and
took too much insulin in the first place.

If you test at 50 mg/dl (discuss this with your doctor, he/she may
want you to do this at 60 mg/dl) or below double or triple your carb
load.  Experience will tell you what you need to do.  If you are not
able to test because the symptoms are to severe don't worry about it
until after you consume some fast acting carbs.  When you are able
test your BG.

ALL type 1s should have at least 1 glucagon kit in the home, know how
and when to use it and have at least one (1) family member who knows
how and when to use it on you, and how to test your BG for you when
you cannot do so.  You do not have to pass out and rely on a family
member to use glucagon.  If you the hypo is low enough or dropping
quickly and low enough and you can manipulate the syringe correctly
you can give yourself the glucagon. (try oral glucose/fast carbs first
if at all possible glucagon tends to make you vomit)

It's always a good idea to test BG before driving.  You could kill
yourself or someone else with even a mild hypo.