Watergirl
Rock Solid
I've just had a really horrible experience and am not sure what to do.
Went to the toilet about an hour ago and felt funny, like dizzy. I shouted to my BF to wake up and asked for some water. By the time he got to me I was feeling worse. I felt like I was going to pass out.
I asked him to get me a shake (tetra)
When he came back I couldn't hold my head up properly, my hands had kind of seized up so that I couldn't move them, had pins and needles all over my arms and my arms were white.
He had opened the tetra but I couldn't drink that or water as was ready to pass out. So was sat on the loo with my head on his lap (he was sat on the side of the bath).
Said I needed to lie down, as wanted to get my head lower to stop from fainting, so he helped me off the toilet.
I only got through the door before collapsing on the floor. Was getting really scared at this point and asked him to call an ambulance. Lying down on my back I felt a little less faint and shouted to him to wait actually and I would try my shake. (not sure how I knew this would make me feel better, but just felt I needed it) Still couldn't open my hands, so he fed me the shake and within about a minute I started to feel less faint. Feeling came back to my hands and some colour. I managed to walk unaided back to bed where I felt completely normal after a couple of mins, like it never happened.
Had another shake to be on the safe side. BF said my whole body went white, including my lips and I was sweating all over.
Now I can't sleep. I'm scared of it happening again or not waking up. I am confident it was low blood sugar, as this happened once before about 4 years ago on a plane (the steward got me a full fat coke before I felt anything worse than just dizzy) This time round was really severe. I thought I was going to die and it's frightened me.
Am now wide awake. Just had a milky coffee.
It's bank holiday Mon tomorrow, so dr's won't be open and would feel silly getting emergency appointment, as the emergency has past. Should I call NHS direct? Should I say I'm on CD? I don't want whoever I talk to to assume it's CD.
Not sure where it came from. I'm now on 810. Yesterday I had 3 tetras, tuna, 2 milky coffees and about 4 ltrs of water.
I don't know too much about blood sugar, but am now worried I've suddenly developed diabetes or something :cry:
Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone have medical knowledge? I have always felt like CD stabilised my blood sugar (never get that sugar high or low type of thing anymore)
I am assuming that this is unrelated to CD, but could a low cal diet have an effect? I had also taken a laxative last night, but only 1. It says to take 1-2 and I rarely take them, but could that have had anything to do with it?
Aspirin can cause hypoglycia - is that because it thins the blood and doesn't CD do that? Sorry for all questions, but I'm scared to sleep in case it happens again and scared that any dr or nurse will just say 'it's CD'
Went to the toilet about an hour ago and felt funny, like dizzy. I shouted to my BF to wake up and asked for some water. By the time he got to me I was feeling worse. I felt like I was going to pass out.
I asked him to get me a shake (tetra)
When he came back I couldn't hold my head up properly, my hands had kind of seized up so that I couldn't move them, had pins and needles all over my arms and my arms were white.
He had opened the tetra but I couldn't drink that or water as was ready to pass out. So was sat on the loo with my head on his lap (he was sat on the side of the bath).
Said I needed to lie down, as wanted to get my head lower to stop from fainting, so he helped me off the toilet.
I only got through the door before collapsing on the floor. Was getting really scared at this point and asked him to call an ambulance. Lying down on my back I felt a little less faint and shouted to him to wait actually and I would try my shake. (not sure how I knew this would make me feel better, but just felt I needed it) Still couldn't open my hands, so he fed me the shake and within about a minute I started to feel less faint. Feeling came back to my hands and some colour. I managed to walk unaided back to bed where I felt completely normal after a couple of mins, like it never happened.
Had another shake to be on the safe side. BF said my whole body went white, including my lips and I was sweating all over.
Now I can't sleep. I'm scared of it happening again or not waking up. I am confident it was low blood sugar, as this happened once before about 4 years ago on a plane (the steward got me a full fat coke before I felt anything worse than just dizzy) This time round was really severe. I thought I was going to die and it's frightened me.
Am now wide awake. Just had a milky coffee.
It's bank holiday Mon tomorrow, so dr's won't be open and would feel silly getting emergency appointment, as the emergency has past. Should I call NHS direct? Should I say I'm on CD? I don't want whoever I talk to to assume it's CD.
Not sure where it came from. I'm now on 810. Yesterday I had 3 tetras, tuna, 2 milky coffees and about 4 ltrs of water.
I don't know too much about blood sugar, but am now worried I've suddenly developed diabetes or something :cry:
Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone have medical knowledge? I have always felt like CD stabilised my blood sugar (never get that sugar high or low type of thing anymore)
I am assuming that this is unrelated to CD, but could a low cal diet have an effect? I had also taken a laxative last night, but only 1. It says to take 1-2 and I rarely take them, but could that have had anything to do with it?
Aspirin can cause hypoglycia - is that because it thins the blood and doesn't CD do that? Sorry for all questions, but I'm scared to sleep in case it happens again and scared that any dr or nurse will just say 'it's CD'