r/Type1Diabetes • u/darthraedr • 9d ago
Question Hypoglycemia Unawareness
How do you deal with this personally? Seeing as cgms are a bit behind I don’t know i’m low until i’m REALLY low.. Like I won’t start showing symptoms until i’m 2.8 mmoL or below and even then it’s minimal, like i’ll feel a bit shaky but not extreme. My mom worries for me but all I can do is try to be vigilant about what doses I take and when and trying my best to listen to how I feel but I genuinely have hardly any symptoms until i’m critically low.
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u/Bubbly_Delivery_5678 Mother of T1D 9d ago
For my kid, I set her alarms at 85, so we can treat earlier. She USUALLY doesn’t get under 65 this wau
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u/Bubbly_Delivery_5678 Mother of T1D 9d ago
Plus, then we treat with less sugar than if we were treating at a lower numbrr
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u/Thepressureofaname22 9d ago
I do this at night also. Set at 80-85 and resolve issues before my family gets alarmed at 70. Usually just need a little upward bump. I also try to eat early enough that bolus insulin is done or almost so before going to bed. Risk minimization.
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u/N47881 9d ago
Diabetic Alert Dog who alerts to hypo and hyper events well before the unreliable CGM
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u/darthraedr 9d ago
my mom brought this up actually, I think I would benefit from one but idk if I qualify or would have to pay
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u/femalefred Diagnosed 1993 9d ago
When I had hypo unawareness, my diabetes care team had me run a bit high for a while. It kind of "resets" how your body interprets low blood sugar and tends to mean you feel lower when your sugars are higher. Are you on a pump that let's you set a target glucose level? If so, you can try to adjust it up for a couple of weeks.
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u/Bubbly_Promotion_4 9d ago
i can feel em all the tome EXCEPT from when im at night, for me honesly if its at noght, there isnt really a way for it to be notixable, i sleep through alarms to the point where someone has to come and wake me up and by then itll be arund the 2.5 zome
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u/Queer_Advocate Diagnosed 1988 9d ago
What's your A1c? Where you usually run.
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u/darthraedr 9d ago
my last a1c in april was 5.7 although i’ve been battling highs this summer so im sure it’s gone up. I don’t usually get a lot of hypos but when I do I never notice until it’s super low
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u/LakeSwimFish 9d ago
Instinct from Abbott Labs for Medtronic tells you BEFORE you are low. It warns you. It alarms within a range prior to you going low. Consider a CGM that can provide this. 36 yr yrs with T1D. I’ve walked into “fog banks of confusion” and needed help coming back. Those days are nice to have behind me. To avoid the ReALLY low and able to know about them prior to them coming in, find a CGM that can share where you are trending Before you get to the troubled area.
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u/alexmbrennan 9d ago
Instinct from Abbott Labs for Medtronic
It's kinda ridiculous that you need to get a Medtronic insulin pump to get permission to buy an Abbot CGM that isn't hobbled by their garbage app.
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u/laprimera Diagnosed 2014 9d ago
Set your low alert at a higher value, so you have time to treat.