My T1 teen experimenting with extreme lows
I am concerned that my 13 year old T1D son is playing a dangerous game of seeing how low he can go before he really needs to his blood sugar back up. He has successfully managed his insulin and blood glucose range independently for the past 2 years and has proven himself fully capable of addressing lows in the past.
More recently there has been more than one occasion where he hits an urgent low and has taken much more time than needed to take juice/tabs/etc.
Last week when I was at work he ignored his caregiver’s pleas around 44 mg/dL and hit 34 mg/dL before coming back up. We try not to nag him until it hits a pretty low point so he doesn’t feel smothered but at that level (and a bit higher) we are definitely not holding back from checking in. He waved her off casually with an “I’ve got it” but I think he wanted to finish whatever he was doing first before addressing it because he has touched numbers this low before without consequence (yet).
We are going to have a serious conversation with him about this new pattern but I was hoping to get some real anecdotes from this community on any experiences or stories of T1D going too low WITHOUT scary consequences that we can share with him to shed more light on the dangers he is playing with? (Saying you can die is too obvious - he knows this and has generally been told of potential seizures and coma but his understanding of what that really means may be basic) but I’m looking for a little more of the nuanced details that might wake him up to stop this new game and take urgent lows more seriously.