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Permalink Reply by MissKitka on November 5, 2010 at 5:22pm

I have consumed all sorts of things before getting to the checkout and payed for empty wrappers or empty bottles of products. Never have I been questioned. Instead, I think I am seen as an honest person, where many people consume products and never bring the empty containers to the checkout.

No teller has ever looked at me in a weird way because they likely know a diab who has told them of a similar story.

Don

Permalink Reply by latvianchick on November 5, 2010 at 5:27pm

They know I am honest. And there is a pharmacy in the store with whom I deal an awful lot. They know me and know that I am diabetic. I wish I could find an affordable bracelet to prove it though to those doubters!

Permalink Reply by MissKitka on November 5, 2010 at 5:41pm

I remember once being in front of a person who checked out an empty chocolate bar wrapper who said "I could not wait" and I was right behind with a half empty tube of Dex 4 glucose tabs and I also said "I could not wait" ha ha!!!! The cashier laughed.

Don

Permalink Reply by latvianchick on November 5, 2010 at 5:44pm

Ha ha! Diabetics Anonymous! Did not know that hypos were contageous! Good one! I know I should not smile at other peoples' misfortunes, particularly as I know what it feels like, but what are the chances of that happening twice in the same queue!!!

Permalink Reply by Sheri on November 5, 2010 at 10:19pm

Having hypoglycemic unawareness, I have passed out in lots of different places around town. Grocery stores, restaurants, shopping centers, pharmacies, you name it, I have probably passed out from being too low when I was there one time or another. I can carry on a conversation with somebody when my blood sugar is 20, but dropping much below that and down I go! The paramedics in my town and I are almost all on a first name basis with each other. But I have never, ever had any problems anyplace that I have passed out in. I do not come out of my lows on my own, so I either have to depend on somebody giving me something (like honey), or calling the paramedics to come bring me back around. Is it scary? Yes, but I never ever leave my house without some kind of medic alert jewelry on. I have been diabetic for 42 years now, and this has been happening for the past 32 years, and I am still not used to it!

Permalink Reply by latvianchick on November 6, 2010 at 1:19am

Ooops. I am not as bad as that. I do not know what 20 means in measurements. We measure in mmols. 5.2 is acceptable. I too have know awareness and one minute I can be fine, or at least I think I can. Not always sure. Next minut I will look as though I have come out of a shower! By that time I am 1.2 which is dangerous! I have had los which go down to below 1.1. I have never passed out, though I can come close to it. I think if I allowed my legs to unlock I would go down. I tend to look and act and speak drunk even though I do not drink any more.

Remember one new years morning - having celebrated with a paramedic friend of mine coming back. Had been high despite not having had much to eat. Fell asleep on the sofa. 3 am woke with a Lo. I could not get it back up!!! I had to ring the concierge who rang and ambulance. The ambulance man came alone and by that time I had to crawl to the front door. I could not see anything but heard his voice and roundly told him off for being on duty having consumed alcohol!

Turned out it was another paramedic and I had confused his voice with my friend's!

I have now changed to pork insulin and it is slowly getting better. Have to run my levels a bit higher and sometimes I can feel it at 3 or 2.5! Hey ho! But the treatment can be most pleasant! That is what I told my pastor once while consuming his supply of biscuits!

Permalink Reply by LaGuitariste on January 26, 2011 at 8:50pm

Oh, I just saw this thread. I put something about my Safeway hypo in the general comments. ;0)