That was my XO. He would ask soldiers random questions through the day. If you got it wrong. 50 push-ups. You’re going be smart or you’re gonna be strong.
advice* No need to respond, you're tough. (Gonna put this here before people get pissed, this is a joke. If you get offended, you must be pretty smart.)
Sugar Blood Minus? Seems like a passive enough mob. *5 seconds later.* That was NOT a passive mob. On the other hand- well I don't have that hand anymore...@@feraltaco4783
@@johntuel2375 there's a period between that reaction of slowing me down and nearly passing out eventually and my blood sugar going low where I become very irrational and cranky and my physical strength is definitively not effected. My co-workers sometimes even ask me if I've eaten recently when I start doing too much work and look sour lmao
If I was a rookie and saw this guy standing there with that look, I'd turn to my senior and make sure I wait and listen to his precise instructions lol
“There are three types of men. Dumb men, that make the same mistake repeatedly. Smart men that make a mistake and learn from it. Then there are wise men, who listen to the smart man and learn from his mistakes instead of their own.” I believe you are the third
I actually regress and become like a great big 5 year old, blowing raspberries and giggling at everything. I know people who get aggressive when their sugar level's low, but not me. Weird.
As a diabetic, i’ve never needed to use a glucagon. However, from experience of very low lows, that throw is IMPRESSIVE. I can barely lift my water bottle when i’m regularly low lol
I was having a high blood sugar episode and I lost my cool on the EMS guys when I was in the ambulance. I was terrible. I saw them at Walmart a few weeks later and I'm thankful I got the opportunity to apologize to them. They definitely remembered me and forgave me.
Hey diabetic here. I've experienced both high and low bs, but it just made me sick, sweaty, and shaky. Does it really change the attitude 180 like that?
@@layna-heyhey yes. My grandfather is diabetic, when his blood sugar is low he is shaky but also the crankiest, grumpiest fuck ever when its normal hes normal and when its high he gets shaky
@@jennh2096 Actually the brain can also function quite well using ketones as fuel. It's not a seamless switch though as it takes time from glucose depletion to the start of ketone production.
Wait... it feels like deja vu to me somehow... . Just wondering if one get's food, relax then adrenaline goes out, does it also sometimes make it to have a nosebleed? : P
My brother is type 1 diabetic and when he had an episode while we were younger, and I totally witnessed him successfully fighting off 4 firefighters while he was low in his bed. They eventually just wrapped his own blanket around him and stuck him on the stretcher that way. He had no idea this happened and felt awful when he found out.
Rule 1 of fire/police/EMS: when your more experienced buddy tells you something, listen to them. If you're not going to listen to them, tell them ASAP, so they can get whatever happens to you on video...
@@painrelief3441 I feel like this is more and more relevant in American society today than ever >.> Starts with book banning then comes along an 'idealist' to charm the newly dumbed down citizens. "Trust me, not the independent media"
We become unstoppable Had an embarrassing moment when my sugar regulated again and my parents telling me I almost fought the body builder paramedic who was just trying to get vitals 😅
I did not know this! Me, I think of low blood sugar as making me lethargic. Cops have shot people for 'not taking meds' according to articles I read. They never mention that it might be diabetes and I wonder why this isn't made common knowledge among emergency workers.
We had a diabetic former Nam vet as our Woodshop teacher. When his blood sugar got out of whack he'd turn into a completely different person. The things he would say in those fugue states made me think a part of him never left Vietnam.
You're probably right in that regard; war is one hell of a traumatizing experience, and vets in America aren't taken care of whatsoever. My heart goes out to him
@@jimsmith3715 not hilarious, bud, serious PTSD! We have a neighbor who was in Nam and he STILL wakes up frequently searching for his flak jacket and helmet
My Mother is a Marine Vietnam Veteran and when she has her flashbacks and from watching a myraid of other Vietnam vet's has a flashback or a PTSD attack I can assure you anyone was served then never fully came back....infinitely worse for those men who were in country.
@@labbuiltmack920 I don’t lose any strength when I’m low, but I don’t get any stronger. I’m much more likely to push someone ever though lol. I’m definitely weaker when I’ve got high sugar though, and all my muscles cramp
@Luiginotcool it always felt to me like I don't have as refined control when I'm low. So me telling my arm to move forward and grab something, I might just slap what I was gonna grab haha
@@labbuiltmack920 From personal experience, it's kind of like fight-or-flight response. The brain relies solely on glucose for energy, so when your blood sugar drops it isn't able to work as effectively and falls back on more (for lack of a better word) primitive behaviour. Bye bye rational thinking, hello moodswings and aggression. Never actually taken a swing at anyone when I had a hypo, thankfully. Just lost my temper really easily.
...is that what that is? I've Joked about being diabetic, having felt like this when I haven't eaten well, but I figured it was just jokes but it does sound like I have a blood glucose issue then...
My buddy’s son is 6’9” and a good 350lbs, think Kevin Nash but around 30. He’s diabetic and if his blood sugar drops he gets like this. Complete black out, won’t remember anything and damn near impossible to pin down.
Jesus good on you for helping enough to know he's near impossible to pin down in that situation. 6"9 350lb giant wouldn't be my first pick to pin down and force sugar into.
@@violetskies14 oh I’ve never had to thank GodLOL His dad was telling me, luckily his dads a Marine that’s also built like a brick shithouse. He’s insulin dependent so he has the pump and the alarm that goes off when he gets low but if he ignores it then everyone’s day goes to shit in a hurry
My mum used to work nights at a 'mental home'. One night she had to go through one of the wards as the nursing station was at the far end. A male patient, naked mind you, got out of bed and asked my mum for a dance. She told him 'one dance and then you go back to bed'. He agreed and they waltzed up and down the ward for a couple of minutes. Then he went quietly back to bed. When my mum got to the nursing station the Matron asked what happened, mum explained and was told if she had said no he would have promptly lost his temper and could have attacked her.
@rock2946 I have type one diabetes. You're absolutely correct. I was referring to the unrelated comment about the hospital patient potentially losing his temper due to his mental illness, not hypoglycemia.
Used to work as a CNA. Watched a new nurse get thrown across a room like a ragdoll by our 80 yr old dementia patient. Tried to warn the dude but no. Mr. Hot Shot had to try and got his entire ass roasted and handed to him by great gramma
I’ve been working as security in a hospital Emergency Department for three years. I’ve developed the philosophy of: “Just because you’re educated doesn’t mean you’re intelligent.” Have seen new nurses and techs get absolutely rocked by a psych patient that was a regular and ignored advice from some of us seasoned “peasants” 🤦🏽♂️🤣🙄
@@glitchout_303 Considering the effect is a type of hysterical strength, the kind of thing that could happen when a soldier snaps mentally, absolutely. It's what causes a 60 year old grandma to be able to lift a car to save her grandchildren. That's not a joke, there are news articles (and granted they're taking advantage of levering). The Fight response of FFF is far more effective than any combat drug humanity has ever made to date. Also, same, had a wheelchair bound sub-80 pound great grandmother rip a fire extinguisher enclosure (not the extinguisher itself, the 'in case of fire break glass' enclosure) out of a cast concrete wall, mounting hardware and all, and peg me with the damn thing from nearly fifteen feet away (about five meters). I had been trying to get another resident away from here and ended up on my ass with three broken ribs and a fractured legs (they were probably unrelated to the incident, but still work related so they tied them in). 5 months totally off, three months weightbearing only, and three months of light duty awaited (why yes, my sanity is questionable after these events).
I guess when you lose control of your max strength it can rip the muscles apart or cause some other damage to the movement related bodyparts. And that's why we can't achieve this powers while being completely sane. Like a power cap to protect ourself.
Only saw the paramedics once, screwed up my insulin and was having a seizure, my fiance at the time called them. By the time they arrived i was doing better. They were really chill and patient. Just made sure i was ok, gave me some sugar, said they hadn't had to see me before so i probably controlled it better than most, and when I was obviously going to be fine let us know there was no charge as they hadn't had to do anything really and left. Good people.
The best part of this story was the no charge bit, that part touched me. I’m glad nobody died, but I can’t imagine how much worse off we would all be if you called for help, ended up not needing it, but got charged for it anyway.
@@Cravenfester crazy to be heartwarmed by something most of us consider a human right to get. Its incomprehensible for me to imagine needing to worry if I can afford to not die because of a medical complication.
Oh dear God that is an absolute EMS flashback for me. The Medics calling us for more "big strong men" because the patient was the upper end of six foot something, ripped and worked as a prison guard. His wife told us he "gets a little aggressive when he comes out of this"...
@@curlyhairblacklilacs He looks like cane with out his mask... hold on he looks like Mr. Clean lost his job and found a new way... lol he looks like he measures his proteins before a stand up routine. He looks like he chokes slams you if you laugh too hard . cause he thinks your faking.
My dad is diabetic and lucky for us, when his sugar drops, he just turns into a 7 year old. It's pretty easy to convince a 7 year old to cooperate as long as you give them candy first lol
I’ve seen my grandma get the glucose too many times. She would go into such lows that she would just go to sleep and wouldn’t wake up. She was soaking wet and totally unresponsive. It got to the point that the EMTs would just bring it in with them. When she would come back around she said she could hear us trying to wake her and she thought she was answering us the whole time. The first time she said she was mad we called an ambulance, CANT YOU SEE IM FINE?!?! Sugar lows are no damn joke.
YEA IK ME AND MY MOM BOTH DIABETIC AND THOSE LOWS...YOU ARGUE ALOT DURING THEM sry for caps didnt see the key was on. anyway also that sleeping could become a coma if left unchecked
I just wanna say I really appreciate the fact that this channel is literally always sympathetic to the “patients” and treats anythjng negative they do as just; past of there illness and part of the job to deal with Low key one of the most whole thing things on the internet
I love that! I am an CNA and I hate it when people are rude to patients especially scolding people with dementia. Once a woman thanked me for not scolding her cause another nurse was doing this regular to her, even though she never did the things on porpoise…
@@larafranke1802that breaks my heart. My dad had severe dementia and while most of the nurses loved him (he was a sweet, non-combative patient), I know there was at least one who didn’t care how she treated him.
It’s really refreshing. One of my loved ones is going through an illness which gives her emotional lability and a loss of social filters; seeing how some doctors will write her off because of it is incredibly frustrating. Or they’ll just assume it’s a mental/functional issue, which it isn’t
As a former EMT-Paramedic and presently retired RN I am appalled by Healthcare providers especially Nurses mocking patients in videos. Especially on TikTok. I am retired due to injury. It's extremely hurtful as a patient.
@@M_SC It's not that they hate treatment. The brain relies on sugar to process rational thoughts. When your sugar is low you literally can't think straight, so your brain registers anyone that gets close to you as a threat you need to fight off.
@@M_SC without fuel (sugar) the brain doesn't function correctly and fight-or-flight ensues. Some get violent, some try to hide, and some lay there like a dead fish. Fight, flight, freeze.
@@M_SC it isn't that they hate it. The body is in distress, and thus goes into 'Fight or Flight' mode, and because they are in a state of vulnerablity, their instincts view any and all contact as dangerous, thus 'defending themselves'.
Oh, that "Hey Jimmy" was perfect! I have heard that tone a few times and used it myself - there is a somewhat indescribable mix of "everything's going to be cool, ok man", familiarity, mild internal dread, and some sort of perverse minor affection for this frequent problem.
Ah, I've met Jimmy. Daughter came in with her dad, who was really, really angry that EMS had taken him out of his car, which he was driving erratically. He (combatively and confrontationally) absolutely denied anything was wrong with him, in coherent, grammatically correct English, making perfect sense, and threatening me with all sorts of mayhem, not to mention legal action, if I didn't let him just leave; daughter says "This is how he gets when his sugar is low". Called his wife; she said the same. Ended up restraining him; checked his sugar, which was in fact low; gave him D50, and suddenly he's the nicest guy, whose first question was "Oh, God. What did I do?" (We told him he hadn't done anything; I felt bad for him). He knew how he got when he was hypoglycemic. Once his sugar was back up, he was a perfect gentleman.
@@Tetsujinhanmaa and here I was with my hopes up, cause another fellow bald man, who does army skits, uses that word too & I thought I caught a reference... :(
When my dad’s sugar was low he would do all kinds of things, throw punches, bite, kick and curse. This short is so validating, I always thought it was just how dad was. After reading the comments its good to know that other diabetics have similar behaviors when they are low and that we weren’t alone. When dad would come to he would be like ‘whoa my sugar must have been low’ smh 🤦🏻♀️. thank you for the validation ❤
It is amazing what few chemicals in your system when just processed wrong can totally take full control away from a person. We run into this constantly with addiction medicine. I would absolutely bet my life that other conditions can have similar effects. Good bless you and your family! You are definitely not crazy!
It’s honestly terrifying when you find out the kind of things you can go through, like dementia and memory loss and all that weird stuff. Like our minds can play tricks on ourselves. And different chemicals just help what can already happen. Usually as we get older. Like if we can end up making our bodies live longer eventually we’ll run into the problem of our minds going bad. 😅
Why is this so true? I had a regular that was exactly this. I could tell you his name and address right now, and I haven’t seen the man in 10 years. I went there every shift. 60 year old man that could fight off 3 firemen and a paramedic with ease, dude was unbelievably strong. Only fought when his sugar was low. Soon as he got glucose and ate a PBJ sandwich he was the nicest guy.
This is very true. We used to have ti deal with a young very fit, muscular male who would not watch his levels adequately. When we got the call, it was a real struggle to keep him physically stable while getting some sugar in him. Some mornings it took 4 or 5 guys to hold him still.
One of my worst memories is having paramedics called for low blood sugar and for how I acted towards them (low blood sugar makes you so unlike yourself) and this made me feel a little bit better about it thanks
Honest question: Did you have to pay for the bill? How much was it? I don't care if I'm bleeding, dying in the streets. Do NOT call an ambulance. If I survive I'm not going to be able to afford it.
@@tauberkuppler it's like $600, they send you a bill in the mail, and you don't have to pay it. They never take anyone to small claims court and the debt is forgiven after seven years. Also you can haggle with the billing department to lower the price, because normally that's what the insurance companies do on your behalf. It may mess with your credit score, but chances are you probably don't care about that if you don't plan on paying. Also they can't garnish your wages if you don't pay, because it's a debt that can be forgiven.
I got to witness a caregiver with an extremely low blood sugar once, lady was in her late fifties, maybe 5 ft 5. We called the paramedics, and by the time we got there, she was starting to get belligerent and a little bit violent, so they had to hold her down to administer the glucagon. Despite being a little old lady, it took three paramedics to hold her down long enough for the injection, the whole time ahe was thrashing and screaming bloody murder. Then, less than a minute later, she just kinda woke up, with no idea what had happened. Crazy stuff yo.
As someone whos Diabetic 1 and Hypoglycemic, I can confirm that your body goes into what I call "Survival Mode" when your bloodsugar gets low enough. Its your body making you a bit more of a Caveman in order to try to get you to eat and thus raise your bloodsugar to a normal human level.
This!!! When my glucose is low my brain going into auto pilot and guides me to food sources 😂😂😂😂😂 I cannot remember having any conversations with anyone after my hypos 😂😂😂
I’ll never forget, I had a guy that I treated multiple times for low sugar levels. One time I treated him and he was like, “I’m freaking out, I don’t feel right” all the classic signs. His sugar was a 36! I couldn’t believe he was still conscious and speaking!
Dude my dad is the same! He goes so low the machine won't even read it sometimes and all it does is make him sluggish and unable to speak it's so bizarre. At least he's still all there though unless he siezes, helps us work with emts better
It will soon be a year since I was diagnosed with diabetes. I remember my second day in hospital. Nobody was in the room with me, all the nurses were busy and I wasn't feeling well. It was one of my first hypoglycaemic episodes and I knew something was wrong, so instead of calling someone with an alarm button, I had a brilliant idea - I would go and ask for help. I don't think I need to say how stupid of an idea that was, but luckily I did. I will never forget the reaction of the lady who measured my sugar when my meter showed the result .... 29mg/dL!
My brother had a low blood sugar episode once driving the freeway in Utah between point of the mountain and Salt Lake (IYKYK). He and a co-worker were transporting a juvenile delinquent to court. Co-worker recognized the signs and spent a while convincing my brother to pull over. I imagine the driving in the meantime had a Fast and Furious feel. When he finally pulled over, the kid jumped out of the car, kissed the ground and said "I'll never be bad again."
@@BisexualPlagueDoctor not uncommon. But welcome to merica. We're you die trying. Why? Because there's no alternative to you getting to and from. MERICA......
I used to have a guy like this in my district, he was like wrestling an alligator covered in syrup. He was a professional bodybuilder and would kick our ass every time - but we knew what we were getting when that address came over the air
I'm diabetic T1 since basically birth, and when I'm having hypoglicemia, i just get stoned tbh. A bit distressed and overwhelmed with anyone who tries to talk with me but otherwise i just get a bit high and act like im dreaming
I would go into fits of aggression. Coworkers figured it out and would call me on the loudspeaker forcing me to come in and eat before I basically lost it. Super chill dudes, didn't hold any of it against me either so that was nice.
