SC - hypoglycaemia
Donna Ford
evfemia at mail.com
Tue Jun 27 13:28:08 PDT 2000
"Decker, Terry D." wrote:
>
> The common term is insulin shock. Usually it refers to acute hypoglycemia
> induced by an overdose of insulin. The symptoms are sweating, trembling and
> dizziness, which if untreated, can continue to coma and death. Because of
> the way the body uses insulin, you do not need to be a diabetic or naturally
> hypoglycemic to die of hypoglycemia from an overdose of insulin.
I'm positive that is true. But since I am not diabetic, I do not take
insulin. I am hypoglycemic. I control my symptoms by avoiding sweets
and high starch items such as white rice, white bread, etc.
Evfemia at mail.com
>
> Bear
>
> > Yes, I wondered about this. An ex lover of mine suicided by injecting
> > massive doses of insulin (no, he wasn't diabetic, nor, AFAIK, was he
> > hypoglycaemic). The official cause of death was hypoglycaemia.
> >
> > Gwynydd
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