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After you've had what you consider a very low blood glucose reading (usually a reading between 50 mg/dl or 2.8 mmol/l and 60 mg/dl or 3.3 mmol/l), how long does it take for you to feel like you've fully recovered?
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It is & has never been consistently the same. I’ve been in the 30’s and recovered quicker with less resources than when I’ve been in the 60’s.
Same here. For me it seems to have more to do with the rapidity of onset than with the actual BG reading per se.
Usually a very low BG is followed by a bounce. That rollercoaster ride can really vary.
An hour or two for severe ones. Meaning the kind where it plummets really fast and I get that flashbulb effect in the center of my field of vision. Low 50s, which doesn’t happen very often, couple times a year, usually due to exercise. Not like it used to be back in the old R/NPH, pre-CGM times. Garden variety 60s and 70s I don’t usually feel at all anymore.
Yes. I get the flash bulb effect, usually in the 40’s, and below.
Due to hypoglycemic unawareness I no longer notice symptoms most of the time. If I do, my blood sugar is usually 40 or below.
This feels like deja vu all over again. I thought we answered this question yesterday? Although, I don’t see it listed under “all questions.”
Anyway, it varies greatly depending upon whether I’m active, how fast my blood glucose is dropping. Some lows hit me hard, or I don’t feel them at all. As others have said, I’ve blood glucose readings in the teens and didn’t even feel them (extremely rare). But, I’ve had 70’s where I feel light headed, and 40’s where I felt fine. Sometimes it takes me a half hour to feel recovered. Sometime it takes days to recover. Go figure.
I always make sure I take take glucose tabs or eat some carbs(dried fruit etc) to quickly resolve the low blood sugar
Of course, using a Dex G7 Sensor and a Tandem X2 Pump, I rarely go over 250.mg/dl. However, I still remember when it went very high my legs didn’t want to walk.
Answered the wrong question!
I have hypo unawareness, so I don’t feel it when I get low, even down into the 40s. And I don’t feel highs either. So I don’t feel it when I’ve recovered. The only way I know is by my cgm.
If it’s only between 50 and 60 I’ll recover within 15 minutes but if it is a fast dropper and end in 40’s then it takes longer. If it’s really severe and at night I’d rebound and feel like crap all day until ai realized when I sweat so bad with severe lows I’m actually dehydrated. Once ai starting drinking electrolytes like gatoraid I bounces back quickly. I recommend to anyone who feels like crap or they have the flu to drink electrolytes. Instant cure.
It’s all of the above for me, depends on time of day and what I’m doing at said time of hypo.
Why the same question again today? I answered it yesterday. Or is your system missed up due to the At&T nationwide outage?
I don’t have low symptoms so when my CGM goes off I treat it with a few carbs and continue whatever I’m doing. Back when I was aware of my hypos a severe hypo (and really, 50-60 is not “very low”) that caused a seizure would take me 2 days to recover from. When I’d get down to the 30s is when I’d feel bad for awhile after, maybe a couple of hours.
I do not feel any hypoglycemic symptoms until my BG falls to 20 or less; over that range I am usually fully functional.
Sometimes I get low w/ no symptoms.. Other times it could take less than an hour. Then again, sometimes it will wipe me out for the rest of the day!. Not really sure what makes it more difficult sometimes.
Please consider running this and the previous question again but as part of a qualitative study instead quantitative. For example “After you’ve had what felt like a very low blood sugar that you were able to recover from without assistance, how long does it take for you to feel like you you’ve fully recovered?” The quantitative version suffers from 1. everyone is a little different when it comes to low blood sugar symptoms 2. using a dexcom G6 as an example, a CGM is only within +/-15mg/dL 90% of the time meaning you are asking about 35-75 and 3. you miss the feelings from BG being out of range and the feelings from the body producing and reacting to glucagon.
Some bad lows last three or four hours just to get back to 120 where my pump is set and those take at least a day for it settle down I am more likely to have more lows in the next 24 hours if it last shorter then longer I get 40’s at least once a month usually because I have more activities then normal or are less then normal I am trying to lose 20 pounds and each 5 I have lossed triggers about 3 units of insulin less a day. So when that process stops I hope to move back to a stable sugar levels
I put less than an hour because I mostly don’t feel lows in that range. Exception would be if I’m falling fast. That I feel. Usually recover quickly once I get carbs in my face.
For me it’s variable. Sometimes I’m good to go once my bg is above 80, other times it take at least half a day to really recover.
Usually less than 30 minutes (I marked “Less than 1hr”). It really depends how fast my BG falls. A very fast fall will produce symptoms and then the recovery take longer. 50-60 isn’t bad at all as I don’t have a lot of symptoms at that range if it has gradually fell. ( about 1 mg/dL in 5 min).