Hypoglycemia (aka “low blood glucose”) is dangerous, annoying, frustrating, time consuming. It causes us to lose productivity, forces us to stop exercising or working, can affect relationships, and even leads some people to run their blood glucose levels higher in order to avoid it.
While we desperately need to remove hypoglycemia from the diabetes equation all together, that’s not going to happen in the foreseeable future.
In the meantime, many groups and individuals are working hard to learn more about hypoglycemia, develop drugs that cause less of it, teach people about it, and come up with better ways to categorize and talk about it.
Michelle Litchman and I have developed a survey to learn more about how people define hypoglycemia, when and how they treat it, what symptoms they experience (if any), and what they call it. We believe improved understanding of this information will help diabetes professionals do a better job of teaching people about hypoglycemia and possibly even lowering people’s risk of hypoglycemia as a result.
If you experience hypoglycemia, please take the survey at this link. If you know others who have type 1 or type 2 diabetes and experience hypoglycemia, please share the link below with them and ask them to participate in our study. The survey takes at most ten minutes to complete and participants’ get a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card or a $50 donation to a diabetes organization.
Here’s the survey link: http://ow.ly/xrPB30pcb8o
Thank you for spreading the word about this survey.