Daniel talks about his experiences of having a hypo as a person with type 1 Diabetes. He describes what an aura feels like to him and also how his experiences are different from his friends. He talks about how the symptoms of hypo tend to wear off with time and how useful his CGM device has been to pick up hypos early.
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Hyper, obviously, low sugar is an interesting one because I have friends who are diabetic as well and what I found interesting is that we all seem to experience them very differently and we all seem to have thresholds to experience them in a different way. So I seem to operate at the lower blood sugars than some of my friends. And by operate, I mean, I can make rational decisions. And I know what I'm supposed to do. I have never had a hypo that requires help from somebody else. So I've been extremely lucky there. But for example, the concept of an aura when you start seeing blinking lights. For me it's almost like a torus floating in front of me, glowing. I can see that. The first time it happened was very weird, but it's one of the symptoms that tells me that something is not right. To be honest, by the time I see that, it's probably really getting important to do something about it right away. But I can still feel them. So I've been diabetic for a while now, since the 90s, and I know some people lose that feeling of hypo. I can still feel it, but I'm also lucky to have a CGM. So the CGM alarm will tell me I have alarms turned on and they will tell me whether something is happening. But some of the the effects that I used to have like getting sweaty and shaky, those things have gone away but I can still know from the way I think and and the way I feel that something is not quite right. Obviously it's something that we need to treat right away. The interesting thing for me with hypers is it's very hard to treat the hypo that doesn't end up with a hyper afterwards. I tend to overshoot a little. But then again, like I said, I have a CGM and a pump, I'm very lucky I can adjust for that later on. But it is a very difficult thing to do. And something that, at least for me, maybe maybe other people are better at that management. But once the heart is there to put enough sugar to get you back up enough glucose to get you back output without it becoming a serious problem. When I mean I go hyper, I mean I go above 10. I don't mean I go to 20 or something like that. you
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