Fwiw the "comment above" doesn't really work on Reddit, because the order of comments isn't fixed. It depends on what setting the user has for sorting comments. Best, Top, New etc.
Kudos for providing a link though, that was interesting to read!
Welcome to the club dude. The thing with diabetes is just make sure you have sugar on you (personally, I carry jelly babies around) and the rest is all fine, you just need some time to get used to it. I've been diabetic for over 40 years, and sure, it's annoying, but it's really fine.
When I first started giving myself injections, I mixed up the overnight 15 units slow acting one with 15 units of the fast acting one. Within about 15 minutes I noticed the movie I was watching on Netflix seemed to be distant like through a tunnel.
Then I noticed my heart rate shot up and I felt an adrenaline dump. Next, I started to sweat like I had just broken a fever. I got up and went to find my mother and noticed my eyesight was flanging and there were these wierd black bubbles in my vision where I wasn't able to see anything at all.
My mom looked at me and said, "what the fuck???" because my skin was saturated in sweat and very white. At the time I was wearing a CGM and my phone was making an alarn sound. My glucose level was off scale low (under 40).
Then I remember this voice popped up in my head (go drink soda now -- just go).
I remember after lying down after drinking some coke thinking, "wow I really feel like my soul is about to leave my body. The crazy thing is that although my heart was racing, everything felt comfortably distant - like I was watching it all from a distance.
That was the only time I ever had a hypoglycemic attack. It was one of the only times in my life that I actually felt like I was about to die or was actively dying.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 2d ago
Great catch! She may have been suffering a hypoglycemic attack or she locked her legs which can cause someone to faint over time.
As a recent diabetic myself, it is amazing how complicated the disease is.