My experience of hypoglycaemia.

John talks about how he felt when having a 'hypo'. He explains he felt terrible. When an ambulance crew arrived to his home, they gave him glucose intra-venously and told him that had they been 30 minutes later that the situation may have gotten out of hand.

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Well, I felt I felt absolutely dreadful. I and the the ambulance crew that attended here at home pumped me full of glucose and said had we been half an hour later we think it would have been too late.

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