sandy7970 - need to catch him before he goes that low. my husband gets like that sometimes. it took about 6 people to hold him down once in the hospital for an IV (his reading that night was 10). when the sugar goes low like that, the brain is completely starved of sugar for proper functioning. everything goes kinda haywire. we've been married 25 yrs now & i know pretty close what his sugar is by the way he acts. when he's a "little" low, he will often not believe it when he's told he needs a soda. he'll just look at me funny & ignore me. when he argues about it, his reading is typically in the 40s. i've actually had to wait for him to drop farther so i could treat him at a level when he wouldn't fight me. with sugar in the 30s, he won't fight my efforts but is awake. in the 20s, he's usually pretty unresponsive but i can get him to grunt at me if i call out his name. when his sugar is in the 70s or 60s, i can usually get him to eat or drink something. if i tell him he's acting a little low, he might think about it & recognize it himself... at that point, he thinks slower & isn't very talkative, but will usually cooperate. when your brother's sugar is so low that he's violent, you cannot give him a shot of glucagon due to risk of needle breaking or getting yourself hit. you also can't give something to drink, because he might prefer to throw it at you, but his ability to swallow might not be too safe & has risk of choking. better to let him calm down. it's also possible that he doesn't recognize you & is thinking you're a stranger & of course he won't do what you tell him. my husband had that reaction also which was shocking at the time. i thought he was just arguing with me & pushing me due to sugar, but then i realized that he didn't seem to know who i was. when i asked him, he looked at me almost with relief & said he had no idea who i was, had never seen me before. i told him more calmly then who i was, who he was, what was going on, and if he would just drink the soda, he'd feel better & would realize himself what had happened. after that event was over, he never remembered it. need to explain to your brother what happens to him at various stages of sugar dropping, ask him how he feels at those readings. need to keep some candy (not chocolate) in his pocket, so if he catches it dropping, he can use those to buy some time. if this happens a lot, it's time to adjust his insulin (taking less) or adjust dose of pills, whichever meds he's on.
sandy7970 - need to catch him before he goes that low. my husband gets like that sometimes. it took about 6 people to hold him down once in the hospital for an IV (his reading that night was 10). when the sugar goes low like that, the brain is completely starved of sugar for proper functioning. everything goes kinda haywire. we've been married 25 yrs now & i know pretty close what his sugar is by the way he acts. when he's a "little" low, he will often not believe it when he's told he needs a soda. he'll just look at me funny & ignore me. when he argues about it, his reading is typically in the 40s. i've actually had to wait for him to drop farther so i could treat him at a level when he wouldn't fight me. with sugar in the 30s, he won't fight my efforts but is awake. in the 20s, he's usually pretty unresponsive but i can get him to grunt at me if i call out his name. when his sugar is in the 70s or 60s, i can usually get him to eat or drink something. if i tell him he's acting a little low, he might think about it & recognize it himself... at that point, he thinks slower & isn't very talkative, but will usually cooperate. when your brother's sugar is so low that he's violent, you cannot give him a shot of glucagon due to risk of needle breaking or getting yourself hit. you also can't give something to drink, because he might prefer to throw it at you, but his ability to swallow might not be too safe & has risk of choking. better to let him calm down. it's also possible that he doesn't recognize you & is thinking you're a stranger & of course he won't do what you tell him. my husband had that reaction also which was shocking at the time. i thought he was just arguing with me & pushing me due to sugar, but then i realized that he didn't seem to know who i was. when i asked him, he looked at me almost with relief & said he had no idea who i was, had never seen me before. i told him more calmly then who i was, who he was, what was going on, and if he would just drink the soda, he'd feel better & would realize himself what had happened. after that event was over, he never remembered it. need to explain to your brother what happens to him at various stages of sugar dropping, ask him how he feels at those readings. need to keep some candy (not chocolate) in his pocket, so if he catches it dropping, he can use those to buy some time. if this happens a lot, it's time to adjust his insulin (taking less) or adjust dose of pills, whichever meds he's on.
ReplyDeleteJack - Well he just needs to keep it under control (the sugar level)
ReplyDeleteJohn W - Maybe get a dart gun loaded with glucagon.
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