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Hypoglycemia

As a student in Greece, I am preparing for my Panhellenic exams. How can I avoid having lows during the exams? I take Lantus and NovoRapid.

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After five years with type 1, I have had to reduce my daughter’s insulin significantly to prevent lows. Is this common? What should I do?

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My teen daughter does not feel her lows, nor experience rebounds. I feel that a rebound is a “safety net” to some extent. Why does she not experience this?

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My son and I have moved to an area where there are no family members or friends to assist with my son’s care. I may have to leave him alone overnight while I travel for my job. What could potentially happen to my son if no one were around to assist him in coming out of a coma/seizure?

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I was diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia a few years ago. Recently, my blood sugars have been somewhat elevated, but then drop a bit. Is this normal?

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As a college swimmer, my daughter has gone back to injections and reduced her insulin drastically, but she is still having 5 a.m. lows. How can she prevent them? She is nervous about the lows so she goes to bed with a very high blood sugar.

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Since an early July seizure, our daughter has been much more sensitive to insulin. We now have to give her diluted insulin. Have you heard of such sensitivities before?

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Working in a pizza place, our teen son is not hungry after work and is having overnight lows. Should he find a different job?

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My fourteen year old daughter with type 1 diabetes has been hitting lows recently during the night and waking up in the morning with lows. She wakes herself up, treats the lows, and then begins having horrible stomach cramps and diarrhea. This lasts approximately half hour to two hours. Can you tell me what is causing this reaction? What can we do to prevent this?

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My husband (63) has had diabetes for 10 years. He experiences terrible cold sweats at night. His blood sugar is high in the evenings, but is normal in the morning. I was told that he is crashing. What is crashing?

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