Has anyone suffered fits due to a diabetic hypo ?

Answer 1

More than a few times! The horrendous part is that when I come round from the fit part of the hypo, I'm still monstrously mashed, can't talk or move voluntarily. It's no fun when your arms & legs spasm when you try & move.
What is even less fun is when it has happened & I've not had anyone around to help or even been able to call for help. Waking up in the ambulance or in hospital is strangely a relief. I know that the worst is over & I'm safe. Until the next time it happens & I spend the next couple of days finding bruises in new & interesting places. Fortunately I've not broken any bones, but I have dislocated my shoulder twice.
I'm tempting fate I know, but it's not happened for eight months. My record is eighteen months fit free.

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Answer 2

I have had a few diabetic fits, they are quite scary. The first time it happened, i didn't know that this could be a symptom of a hypo and thought i might have had a drink drugged or something like that. It usually happens if i haven't eaten enough during the day.

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Answer 4

Yes. Due to a number of complications, one of these being neuropathy (nerve-ending trouble), I no longer sense hypos coming on. Hence, my blood sugars fall to such a low level before anyone realises. Usually, a glucagon injection will bring me round, but sometimes even that isn't enough, and I have to be admitted to hospital for treatment ... normally intravenous glucose.

Answer 5

I suffered another hypo this morning....I'm full of cuts/grazes and bruises all over my body due to convulsing around on the floor....I realise what was happening and what needed to be done but I just couldn't get any food or sugar into me....

Answer 6

i am a ninteen year old on an insulin pump and 25 weeks pregnant when i first got pregnant i had quite a few times where my blod sugar would just drop and i would be doing the weirdest things that i never remebered doing but it is a good thing that my fiancee learned a lot about my diabetes so he knew what to do in these situations..

Answer 7

When I was preagnant with my second baby. My 2 yr old was running around the house I remember sitting in the chair it was 10:00 am. everything went black. when I awoke at about 5:15 pm. I remember walking around the house feeling like everything was a fog, I was disoriented, I couln't figure out where the day went what I had done. My 2 yr old thank god nothing happened to him. he was in everything, My dr said I was in a coma and the only reason I came out of it was that my liver stored extra sugars that finally brought me out of it. very scarey. u can be here one minute gone the next.

Answer 8

Yeah I've had fits twice - I think it's actually more scary for the people around you! Neither time I went to hospital, although I dunno if I should've or not! I think both were following an extra lot of exercise earlier in the day. Hypos suck! xxx

Answer 9

unfortunatly, yes!
ive had a good few in the past few years, but i dont remember a thing about them!...i went a few days, with every morning me waking up to the sight of two ambulance men, and a very tearful mother/father/aunty!....there quite scary for me, because i have no idea what i did or said!!
i hate hypos!!:(

Answer 10

Yup! While i was taking INH for positive TB test, my sugars were low, and i had a few siezures. Quite scary. I sprained my ankole and broke a glass during two of them.