True story...more about anxiety and blood sugar if you all might indulge me.

Hi All,

So grateful for the feedback from you all on my last thread, this community is a treasure.

(https://www.reddit.com/r/diabetes/comments/g8ljrg/sometimes_when_i_think_i_am_having_an_anxiety/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x )

So, I developed a deep fear of low glucose about 8 years ago. The following is the story of why.

I had just started on glipizide at the time and did not realize that I was perhaps sensitive to it. One night that started out quite normally, I was on the laptop watching Netflix. Then flash to this not sure how long after:

"Woke up" collapsed in my tiny shower stall with ice cold water running over me. I couldn't see anything but horrifying hallucinations, much worse than any nightmare. I thought I had crossed over into another reality and couldn't move or think, just react to the horror of it in my mind. Then flash to this:

On the phone with my father, no memory of crawling from the shower to my cel phone. No memory of calling his number. No inkling that I should have called 911. "Came to" speaking gibberish, hysterically crying and telling him that I think I snapped, don't know what to do. So glad he had the presence of mind to ask me if I had checked my blood sugar. Hadn't even dawned on me that it could be related, my current state being complete helplessness.

Sure enough, blood glucose of 30. I made my way to the kitchen, barely able to walk and grabbed bread and peanut butter. He stayed on the phone with me while I slowly chewed on it and slowly got more lucid. Eventually got into normal range and the relief that my mind had not just failed to function from then on or worse was palpable.

Ever since, I overcorrect when I do go low. Also when I lived in a tent in the woods, I had something similar happen and no one to turn to. At least I knew what to do.

tl:dr Low glucose is the scariest thing I can ever imagine.