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Hypoglycemia

When my blood sugar is quite low, I get a cramping pain in my pelvic area. It will wake me so I can treat myself. What could cause this pain?

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My 16 year old son has had hypoglycemia during high stress wrestling. The doctors, put him through the wringer of tests only did one fingerstick fasting glucose test. The symptoms seem to be appearing more often, and I have several questions.

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My daughter’s school is concerned about her lows, averaging one or two a day. Is she having way more episodes of hypoglycemia than average or normal?

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I work with a 25 year female who has diabetes, and, twice within the last four months we had to call 911 because her blood sugar dropped. It happened again today. Is there something we can do to help her when her blood sugar drops like this again?

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How long after a child becomes unconscious/unresponsive does any type of brain injury begin? Does it occur as the child is in the process of going low?

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A friend, whose father has type 1 diabetes, was told by the doctor that her father is not allowed to have glucagon for treating severe lows even though his wife is capable of giving the injection. Is there any reasons for not letting my friend’s father have glucagon?

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My four year old daughter has had type 1 diabetes for 13 months. Do you think that it is possible for her to have a hypo during the night and not have any side effects of it other than high blood sugar later?

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Our granddaughter has had diabetes for eight years. Last night, she took six units of Lantus only, then required a lot of high sugar foods to prevent lows all day, with no additional insulin. Are there any tests to determine what is going on?

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Recently, my daughter, who takes Adderall, had a low blood sugar. And, she is tired. Is it from the blood sugar and/or the medicine?

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Usually, my son can tell when he’s hypoglycemic but, lately, he’s had a funny feeling in his legs often. For him, that’s a symptom of a low. Could it be related to the switch from NovoRapid to Humalog? Is it related to growth?

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