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Old September 12th, 2004, 06:11 PM
Roger Zoul
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Lictor wrote:
|| "Roger Zoul" wrote in message
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||| If you do some reading on hypo, you'll discover that hypo is not
||| merely a low BG reading...they symptoms can be brought on by the
||| rate that BG levels fall, so the BG doesn't even need to be that
||| low for one to experience hypo.
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|| That was typical when taking Prandin. At some point, I would
|| experience crash hypos, though I'm certain my levels where not
|| trully hypoglycemic. I read some diabetic report that they have felt
|| some hypo symptoms when dropping from hyperglycemic range to still
|| hyperglycemic or high normal (for instance, dropping from 200 to 110
|| very quickly).

Right, exactly.

|| I don't know if transitionnal hypos are felt with the full range of
|| symptoms (both somatic and neuro) or only a subset (only somatic
|| would make sense)...

A lot about hypo is poorly understood. All I know if that if I go ride 60+
miles on LC, I'll have such a bad hypo that I can barely function.