Hypoglycemia unawareness ppt
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she did mention one thing that concerns me, and hopefully is a warning to those not sure. If you experience hypoglycemia unawareness, she said you could lose your drivers license. While I had always been aware of this condition, and hopefully watchful, this did shake me up a bit.
Question I forgot to ask endo, and will definitely follow up on...at what point with levels are you supposed to "feel" symptoms? 70's? 60's?...
anyway, he now has hypoglycemic unawareness. It happens a lot during the night. He s doing a lot better about taking his BS more often but he is possibly still approximating the carb counts ( I think that may be where he is messing up occasionally). He also has seizures with the lows, not every time. I have to call the ambulance about once a month or once every 6 weeks. I have another son who lives two hours away and now has a baby.
When you notice unawareness of hypoglycemia happening, you need to raise your glucose levels enough to avoid ANY hypo episodes for a short period of time so that the body can re-program what the normal levels are. That period of time varies from study to study, but one study I read about suggested that the awareness symptoms could return in just 2 weeks without hypos.
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The article about the study on hypoglycemic unawareness was published in my hometown newspaper in 2001. I remember it so clearly because I was one of those diabetics with a real problem wtih hypoglycemic unawareness. I followed the suggestions and truly my warning symptoms are great now. I still of course have occasional lows -- I think that any type 1 diabetic under tight control risks occasional lows.
Hello. Wow, do you have a lot on your plate. I'm not a medical professional, just a parent of a kid with diabetes. From your description of your father, it sounds like he's progressed from a functioning adult to someone completely dependent on others to simply remain alive. He almost assuredly has severe hypoglycemic unawareness, you don't say whether he's been diagnosed with that or not.
t exactly sounding like hypoglycemia, but it could be (low blood sugar) and a simple meter test will tell you. Or else he is drinking when you are at work and using diabetes as an excuse.
My symptoms included a faster heart rate, confusion, foggy thinking, impaired judgement, and many others. From personal research I correlated my symptoms with hypoglycemia. At times, it was difficult to even walk in the university halls without feeling extremely faint. Social interactions were difficult as well as I felt irritable and highly anxious.
And also that ADA recommends that to also prevent low blood sugars, which i have had some severe ones myself lately and the last one i was brought to the local emergency room, and the ADA has in studies found that those who attempt to keep normal blood sugars have three times as many low blood sugars than a diabetic on a slightly looser regimen. Also having frequent lows can bring on hypoglycemia unawareness, where the diabetic has no physical warnings of an impending low.
Your child probably does not have that problem. Hypo unawareness prevents the brain from telling the liver to dump its emergency stores of sugars -- this is why it is so dangerous.
Studies have shown that you can keep your child's warning symptoms working properly and you can actually RECOVER warning symptoms if you do several things. Some of this is addressed in the first excellent response.
Your note from the page about not being able to pay attention in school could be due to low blood sugar, hypoglycemia would occur whether animal or insulin insulin was used. As these are both insulin and designed for only one purpose to lower blood glucose.Human insulin doesn't have the allergic reactions that animal does.
I am at the early stages of PPT (I also have postpartum anxiety) my endocrinologist put me on Tapazole 2 weeks ago. I have a mild soar throat but I believe it's merely the remnants of a cold. However, I am losing an insane amount of hair, above the average hair loss due to postpartum. Is this the combo of thyroid, meds and postpartum... I'm on tapazole 10mg daily dose. Is there something I can do? I had my blood work done on Friday and WBC was normal... does it fluctuate easily?
You may have postpartum thyroiditis (PPT). PPT is considered a "temporary"/self-resolving thyroiditis. It usually starts with a hyper phase, followed by a return to normal and then a hypo phase. However, many women only experience the hypo or the hyper, not both.
TSI (thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin) is the antibody marker for Graves'. If you have that tested, and it's elevated, you'll know you have Graves'.
I have a 7 month old son and my thyroid is way out of whack. Because of my somewhat recent pregnancy my endo seems to think that I have PPT. I have researched this and PPT goes from hyper to hypo and I thought if this was the case with my sons age I would be in the hypo stage by now....also I have no inflammation which I'm pretty sure would be required for a thyroidITIS diagnosis.
First, if he has several lows in a short periiod of time and seems to be dropping lower before noticing or behaving oddly, then you should do as your doctor just arranged for -- raise those glucose levels for a period of 2 weeks, according to the study on hypoglycemia unawareness. The study indicated that this is the length of time needed for the body to return to normal with normal warnings if a pattern of lows has caused the symptoms to dissapear.
My diabetic sister has come to live with me because of her hypo unawareness. I am noticing that sometimes onset of symptoms can start at 87, but sometimes lower.
What causes this variation?
I' am not a diabetic; I' am a hypoglycemic and everyday I experience fasting hypoglycemia upon waking. My morning blood glucose is between 25-30mg/dL and I always feel like crap, I only experience reactive adrenergic symptoms like, moderate hypertension, sweating, arrhythmia, headache, lightheadedness, shaking and nausea during the episode.
You could have Hashi's, but it's more likely you have postpartum thyroiditis. PPT is a variant of Hashi's, but many people recover from it on their own. It usually presents as an initial hyper phase, followed by a return to normal and a hypo phase, although some people only experience one of the phases.
Your FT4 is only 29% of range, which is low of the 50% target. Many of us found FT4 had to be about 50% before our symptoms were relieved.
From one who has had two low blood sugar car accidents and no longer drive what happened to your husband sounds just like a low blood sugar reaction to driving. It always pays to check your blood sugar before driving, especially where it seems your husband has hypoglycemia unawareness, or doesn't feel when his blood sugar goes low.
m glad to read that I am not the only one with Thyroid issues! I am the proud mother of a new baby girl who is now 4 months old and I suffer from PPT, I had it with my first child and now I new the signs I acted fast and saw my endo. The problem is that I've been prescribed Tapazole to help me with the hyper stage until hypo sets in, and honestly, I'm really scared to take the medication. The list of side effects seem pretty severe. Is this the best process for me to take.
Has your doctor diagnosed post partum thyroiditis (PPT)?
Your TPOab is somewhat elevated, which usually indicates PPT. It's considered a variant of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is autoimmune thyroid disease and the most prevalent cause of hypo in the developed world.
PPT is usually a temporary condition characterized by an initial hyper phase, a brief return to normal and then a hypo phase. Hashi's, except in its very early stages, usually causes hypothyroidism.
Could any one help me to know what is my results means specially 2 things in my ppt:
(Pre). (Best)
Tlc 7.86. 8.90
Rv. 1.92. .90
Rv/tlc 26.44. 10.
The only thing that ever has clued my son into feeling high is having his eyes feeling very tired, so when he feels this way, he tests and there are many times he was not high, just very tired. I can only imagine how frightening hypoglycemia unawareness is, as well as hypoglycemia in general.
Do you think that after many years of having diabetes, your hypoglycemia unawarenss has happened? (Sorry if I did not interpret you correctly)
We have had a change in docs in the past year, as well.
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