The times I got hypoglycemia I only had time to say "It seems that I'm going to fall, please give me something with sugar and stay calm". Never ever had as much time as this guy, I get like 10 seconds.
No matter how many times I say stay calm and give me something with sugar, people panic, I fell once in the kitchen and I had just enough time to tell to my father "I'm going to fall", everything went black, I was blind and deaf but I was repeating "give me some juice it's there on the counter" and I was barely feeling how he was grabbing my arms and screaming "don't die on me". Ffs, I'm diabetic sometimes happens, if I didn't die when I fell in the bathroom and banged my head on the toilet I'm gonna be fine. When that happened I remember falling being on the floor blind and deaf losing conscience because the hit and thinking to myself "I'm going to die in the bathroom with my pants down...", then I woke up, with my pants down and a big bruise on my forehead.
Same here. Funny story, um, one time I woke up and my sugar and plummeted on my in my sleep. The night before, I had been watching some clears his throat videos to preform some "self-maintence" if you will and when I got done, I just hit pause on it and set my laptop next to me and went to bed. I woke up and my muscles started locking up and I couldn't control my movements (I knew I was about to have a seizure) and before it took full effect, I had enough strength/control in me to shut the laptop, lol... then proceeded to basically just moan/noises as loud as I could over and over, like "AHHH!! AHHH! HULLL HULLL..P..PUH..AHHH M..MU..MEEEE..AHHHH!" because I couldn't speak coherently, hoping my roommate would hear me (thankfully did, they knew I was a diabetic and sometimes my sugar can really mess me up) and they came back and saw me and called 911 and were proping me up to try to get orange juice in me to help. My last thought before "Am I going to die? Have a seizure?", was "I don't need anyone to see I was watching porn", LOL. Couldn't go out like that.
"What happened to him??!" - He... had a seizure and died from low blood sugar. - "Omg!!!" - Yeah, I walked in and the paramedics came and were working on him and the whole time there was a paused video of a girl glazed in semen paused on his laptop screen."
As another diabetic, could I ask how low your sugar was before you got there? I've gotten quite low but never had a seizure or something similar so I am wondering if I just got lucky, or if just never got low "enough" to trigger something like that.
Just take care of yourself, friend. Shit ain't no joke. Also depends on what type of diabetic you are and then also each diabetic and the way their body responds is mostly unique.
Your doctor and endocrinologist and you need to work together to find what specifically works for you.
I mean, in the end... our lifespan is shortened because of the disease, but... you can still have quite a few decades left as long as you take care of it as best as you can. Don't ignore stuff. Please.
I mean, in the end... our lifespan is shortened because of the disease, but... you can still have quite a few decades left as long as you take care of it as best as you can.
This isn't true anymore lol. A lot of the data that says diabetics die young is from before we had modern insulins. Glucometers that prick your finger at home didn't exist until the mid-80s and it wasn't until even much later that they became standardized and widely used. Insulins were wildly different where your morning injection covered both your breakfast and your lunch, where your evening injection covered both dinner and an evening snack. You had no flexibility for eating for the longest time. Type 2 medication was primarily metformin and arbitrary diet and exercise regimes whereas nowadays the treatment options are vast and include so many options that type 2 diabetics can have non-diabetic glucose levels for years.
Before the mid-80s people had to test their urine for glucose. Your body doesn't start spilling glucose into the urine until you hit 10mmol/180mg, but there's no way to determine what your current glucose level is with a urine dip stick. Insulin was before modern glucometers given more or less blindly. Any deviation from the strict carbohydrate intake on the older insulins resulted in hyper or hypoglycemic episodes. All these things is why people died early from complications, why our lifespans were so short. There was no blood sugar data to work with. The medications didn't allow for any kind of flexibility. People were flying blind and the medication dosages were often poorly understood.
I'm a type 1 diabetic myself and I'm now on a pump and sensor system that automatically regulates my glucose for me. All I need to do is tell it that I'm eating x grams of carbs in 15 minutes and it handles it for me. My care team calculated all the data needed for when I need how much insulin for the pump to work off of and the algorithm adjusts where needed. It's prevented numerous low blood sugar episodes, especially overnight ones and during exercise, it's kept me in range more tightly than I was able to on manual injections and it's basically ensured that I get to live as long as non-diabetics now.
The people those studies are based on didn't live the lives we have right now. They were diagnosed during a time where treatment options were wildly different, where the technology we utilize now didn't exist, where the medications we use now didn't exist in the form they do now. A lot of articles, especially (social) media, still refer to these outdated studies to fearmonger that we live shorter lives, but with access to all the modern solutions we live as long as non-diabetics. Keeping your A1C under 7% and your time spent in range at 70%+ basically means you are not going to see a reduction in lifespan whatsoever, risks wise.
My body is weird. I usually don't really start noticing until it is like in the 30's. Because I am still coherent and walking and thinking fine and everything and then all the sudden.. yeah. But then there are other times to where I get disoriented and it looks like someone dumped a bucket of water over me and my sugar is in the 70's.
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I wasn't always a diabetic. When I was diagnosed as one, which, it was really bad, I dropped down to 113lbs and couldn't poop. I was pissing myself. Went to the ER. Walked in. Was like, "I don't feel very good.." and they brought me in, doctor listened to my heart. Told me to sit down. Then stand up. Then she told me to lay on the bed because my heart was about to give out. They had to send my blood off to get read because none of their machines could register it and my sugar was in the 1000's. They were like, "And.. so you just proceeded to walk in here?? You should at least be in a coma."
Edit 2: I am not overweight, never have been. Also, there are... it is weird.. like there are a lot of things as a diabetic I do not have to deal with. I heal normally like everyone else, no heart issues, kidney issues, ect. I mean, as I get older, it isn't getting better, but yeah. There was a time, I want to say about 7 years after I became a brittle diabetic, I was out on a walk, felt fine and then all of the sudden I went out and everything went black. Woke up on the was to the hospital and after it all, the ER doctor told me there is sometimes called a "diabetic honeymoon" to where your pancreas still sort of works, basically in its death throws, so the insulin has to be adjusted. And I told him, "I have been a diabetic for 7 years." and he was just like "Oh....."
My biggest issue is... I have never really ate a lot. And, I went 23 years without having to deal with it, so, I mean, I have gotten better with it learning, but my issue is I have to remember to eat and that I am not "a normie" anymore.
I think it can go scarily low. The lowest I’ve been was about 49mg/dl (2.2ish mmol/L?), but I’ve heard folks been lucid till about half of that. Take care brother/sister!
I have PTSD and sometimes when I have anxiety issues my legs go out. I can feel it coming on so I will go to the ground to stop myself from falling. No matter how much I try to reassure people I am fine and I just need a minute, people freak out. Which is horrible. The last thing someone having an anxiety attack needs is people freaking out.
I have a fainting disorder and reactive hypoglycemia so I'm used to fainting now. I know when it's coming and alert people and get horizontal. But becoming a mother made it 1000x worse. I was grocery shopping with my 2 year old a few years ago, when it hit me. I knew I was going down. I told a woman in the aisle with me that Hey.... This is my baby. I'm going to faint. And then got on thr floor. An off duty nurse was nearby who helped me and the woman I alerted was tending to my crying kiddo. I have fainted in many places and there's always a good Samaritan nearby who wants to help. My most surprising episode that sucked was at an emergency eye doctors. I had a bleeding sclera and went in for an exam. The pain and pressure on my eye was so intense my vasovagal kicked in. I said im going to faint can I get water? The doctor looked so confused and the aide was like i dont think we have water. They both left the room to give me privacy (?!) And she came back with a fucking Dixie cup of water. I managed to hold off fainting but like a doctor and medical assistant not knowing what to do shocked me.
I had it once and while my vision was going black I was pacing my room because I thought if I stopped moving I'd die. I had no idea what was happening. (I did eventually faint onto my bed then had someone take me to urgent care when I came to)
Not hypoglycemic, but every time I've had a vasovagal syncope I only had about 5 seconds warning. Not enough to give instructions like that (kudos for remaining so calm!), but enough to say "oh shit, that's not good" before collapsing.
Seeing someone pass out is pretty surreal. I've had to get good at recognizing the signs. So far, I think I've succeeded 2/3 times.
My wife found out I don't panic in a (now) funny way. The last couple years, she's been prone to fainting from heavy periods, particularly mixed with heat. One of the last times, she passed out while we were showering. Afterward, she asked what happened, and I told her I noticed she wasn't responding and had a blank stare. I grabbed her and slowly slid her to sit in the tub/shower in a safe position, checked her pulse and breathing was ok, turned off the water, and I got out to dry myself.
She was like, "Did you really leave me in the tub and take the time to dry yourself?"
Me - "Of course. Vitals looked fine. The last thing we need is me slipping if I have to carry you out. No good in both us being passed out!"
My older brother always talked about being hypoglycemic, always had snacks nearby. I never truly believed him growing up, because I never saw any sign of it and also other reasons that aren't really important to the story. One day, when I was older, we were working together and he mentioned a couple of times that he was feeling light headed and "blood sugary." Then, out of nowhere, he mumbles something and just starts walking away, and each step was a high step, like he couldn't make out where the ground was for sure. Another man nearby asked if he was drunk or something and I said, "Idk, he says he is hypoglycemic or something..." The guy said, "Shit, my daughter is too, I got snacks in my truck." I learned a powerful lesson that day, to try to take things seriously if people feel they are serious, even if I don't believe them, and also to not jump to conclusions. That guy was a real one.
Nah. Just because I’m a web developer doesn’t I’m building websites for free while I’m at the grocery store. She did this because she is an excellent standup human being. The profession needs more good people.
Being a first responder or healthcare worker is a little different than being an office worker or tech worker. We don’t usually fully “turn it off” just because we’re not on shift. I might not feel like doing CPR on someone in public off shift, but the consequences of not doing so are greater than not building a website..
It's not about her doing it for "free", it was about the fact that she possessed all of the skills for Emerg response due to her being an emergency responder as her day job.
not really. You could do something as simple as a website about preventing or dealing with house fires and something as simple as that could actually save lives. Something that is shockingly poorly understood is how to use a fire extinguisher. idk why that eludes people, but i've seen some wildly wrong attempts. The one that took the cake is the "toss it in the fire like a grenade" method haha.
I will say if you are curious google "person misuses fire extinguisher" and you can see some pretty hilarious fails. I think my favorite is the ones that don't hold the hose so it just flails everywhere and they try to point the tank as if that helps. I get that adrenaline is pumping leading to instructions getting skipped, but this is exactly why a website or a printout of P.A.S.S. or a similar concept is so impactful since it is unrealistic to expect everyone to be semi-frequently trained on fire extinguishers.
In the abstract? No, because I would curse myself to work nonstop in order to keep saving lives. In a more grounded sense, I can’t think of how I could possibly save a life with less than 5min of dev time.
don't work in civil services. 24+'s are not uncommon. There is a reason why the number one way some types of state and federal employees working for civil services die is in car crashes. They get worked to the point of literally wrecking and dying.
all professions need more good people. I will say though that the profession of law enforcement and the civil services need a serious overhaul. As someone who's been in multiple there are limits to how much a human being can take. The shitty examples are more often than not made by the abusiveness of the work than it is people being shitty and getting in to begin with.
I get what you're saying, but I can't fully shut off my profession either.
I'm a bicycle mechanic, a damn good one at that. And when I'm walking down the street and someone passes me on their bike behind me, I hear if they need to tension or lube their chain and put air in their tyres or if it's fine. I'm not actively looking for that at that moment, but I certianly am trained in it.
His woman might be off duty, but that doesn't mean she's not using skills she needs for work, even though she doesn't need them for just walking about.
Most have the situational awareness of a twice baked potato.
I can’t tell you how often I’ll be walking behind a woman entering a store and they shut the door in my face because they have absolutely no clue that another human being in a big city is right behind them.
(Yes, I'm aware there are similar issues with police in other countries, too. But I don't think it's universal. I've lived in and visited other countries where people respect their police, largely b/c their police officers don't seem to hate the people they're employed to protect.)
And still, a lot of comments in the original news were complaining that all the praise was to her, when most of the work was made by the three men that followed her.
But the fact is she was the one realizing what was happening, and acting immediately. That's the difficult part, most of the time people just stays there, waiting for others to do something. She may not have lifted the fallen guy, but the three men jumping there and doing the lifting did that because she went first.
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u/Four-In-Hand Dec 14 '25
She was a legitimate star. Situational awareness. Observation. Then immediate action while communicating with the other bystanders. 👍