I was able to do that.. Talk/walk and be awake and still had a major low.

I was just coming off a rotation for the day. walking down a flight of stairs. We (my friends and I) thought that I should check my sugars.

I was 16 or 0.9mmol.

Not diaphoretic,

talking normally

walking normally

nothing.

was completely asymptomatic of hypoglycaemia. The ED was only 200 feet from where I was. I was walked over there and the friends told them that I was asymptomatic to a low, and that I just tested at 16. The nursing staff just about **** their pants. I was rushed into the back, started on IV D5 and a amp of D50 was rapidly infused. I shot to over 600 (on their meter). I spent 4 days in hospital, to find out how and why I went so low, and why I was asymptomatic (per my physician, and per several of my professors).

One reason on that part was Hypo-Unaware, which is what I was diagnosed with durring that visit (had subsquent lows durring that visit, into the 20's (1.2-1.8) to 600+ (33.3 +).

It can happen and it does happen.

Medical students, phsyicians in training (residents) and phsyicians are being taught/trained in Hypo-Unaware now (actually it started back in 2000).

 

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