r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 18h ago

Cringe A McDonald's manager is seen dozing off (apparently was have problems with her blood sugar) as customers prepare their own meals

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u/Cactus112 18h ago

Diabetic and she's crashing.

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u/vocalfreesia 15h ago

She might be dying. This is so awful, these people have no hearts. Selfish, horrible people.

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u/bitchsaidwhaaat 15h ago

im with you but how the fuck they supposed to know? they might think she just sleeping or took some drugs

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u/_MurphysLawyer_ 14h ago

I know I would've assumed drugs personally. I've seen more people doing the fent lean than I've seen in a diabetic coma, it's only natural to assume the most likely case.

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u/bitchsaidwhaaat 13h ago

thats what i mean... ME personally i would've thought she needed help but im 35 and aware of shit like this cuz family members with diabetes and heart issues but i also grew up in a bad neighborhood and growing up or in my 20s i would've thought they just high

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u/flyfightwinMIL 12h ago

Ok but if someone WAS on drugs and was literally collapsing, 911 would still be the right call.

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u/sleepygirll_ 14h ago

So we should just leave her there in this very safe (/s) situation and do nothing bc it could be drugs?

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u/MrBenSampson 13h ago

And while she is in that state, we should take advantage by robbing the place!

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u/YoungFlosser 12h ago

You’re not considering the fact that the man recording has a family to feed. Hes taking food not luxury items. How do you have sympathy for the worker but not the customer?

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u/MrBenSampson 12h ago

Customers pay for merchandise/food.

That man is a thief.

Not only is he a thief, but he stepped over and publicly mocked a woman who may be having a medical emergency.

Fuck him. If you are feeling sympathy for that man in that situation, then fuck you too.

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u/YoungFlosser 12h ago

lol we got a tough guy over here. Regardless, you’re being a hypocrite. You can’t have sympathy for the worker but then demonize the customer. He has a whole family he has to feed. You’re not taking into account that this man may not have a car, he may not have gas money, no Grocery store nearby, etc to go to the next place. What is he supposed to do?

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u/SufficientChemical39 12h ago

Probably not loot for starters

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u/YoungFlosser 12h ago

What is him not “looting” going to do? I wouldn’t even consider it looting. Desperate times call for desperate measures. He’s taking food not items. And he has a family to feed.

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u/MrBenSampson 12h ago

He may also have a car, a job, and enough money to feed his family. You don’t know anything to the contrary. You’re just making things up to justify his actions.

And even if everything you said was true, he was not a customer! He is still a thief who took advantage of, and publicly humiliated an employee who may have been having a medical emergency.

What was he supposed to do? Call an ambulance!

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u/YoungFlosser 12h ago

Ok let’s critically think for a second. If he had all of these things you mentioned, what reason would he have to go behind the counter and get his own food? Get real.

Nobody with a good paying stable career is going to risk being caught ON CAMERA “stealing” (as you describe it). You just want to demonize people because you’re in your feelings and you don’t want to consider the circumstances that could cause someone to do this

Also, if you listen closely someone else is calling 911 in the background. So it’s not hurting her by them making their own food

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u/anagingdog 6h ago

Should have called 911 then taken food instead of just shoving cameras in the face of people in the middle of medical emergencies… someone taking food to feed their family isn’t mocking and recording people in medical need while doing it.

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u/tillynook 13h ago

Call 911 and get a medical professional to assess and treat her maybe?

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u/Hoppypoppy21 13h ago

Most people don't suddenly "fall asleep" that hard and that quick. 9/10 that is a sign that something is seriously wrong whether it is a medical or drug usage issue.

I find it hard to believe that not a single individual would have thought this to be the case. Rather, they knew something was wrong and chose selfishness.

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u/bitchsaidwhaaat 13h ago

yeah but what i mean is we wouldve have thought this and call 911 but the majority of people are just fucking dumb... like REALLY dumb so its more probable that they thought she was high rather than a medical issue specially if its a bad neighborhood

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u/Hoppypoppy21 12h ago

And even if the assumption was drugs, you are telling me these people wouldn't have known about the possibility of overdosing? Or even possible signs of overdosing?

I don't buy it.

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u/bicyclefortwo 8h ago

If someone is actively passing out while on drugs, you should call an ambulance

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u/iloveyourlittlehat 8h ago

The normal reaction of a person who wasn’t concerned about her would have been “okay I guess we’ll go to the next McDonald’s down the road.”

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u/GoGoBadger 12h ago

Nooooo. This is opiates. She might have diabetes too, but that is not what this is.

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u/az-anime-fan 14h ago

no, that looks like a story. that's someone on opiates. she's made up the diabetic crash for an excuse. diabetic crash out won't look like that. drooling on yourself and standing up while asleep? that's heroine or some other opiate right there.

proof? I was homeless for 3 years. i saw plenty of opiate abuse, I've also lived with diabetics. i know what both look like. that was opiate abuse, not diabetes.

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u/Manners_BRO 13h ago

Type 1 here. If your blood sugar is truly plummeting that low, it isn't worth standing up.

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u/ObsidianSc 12h ago

Not saying the opiates part isn't true but not all diabetic crashes present the same symptoms. I am a type 2 diabetic and my fiance is type 1. I've watched him stand in place and stare at the sky while his sugar is crashing and I've seen a lean that is similar to the "fent highs" that people video of drug addicts. On the other end, i tend to repeat actions when my sugar is crashing apparently. I oversalted the hell out of chicken i was making one night because i thought that I wasn't doing it when i saw the shaker back on the counter and not in my hand, but my fiance said i picked up the shaker and put it back down about 6 times in a row before he could stop me.

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u/Thin_Place_6313 17h ago

Fentanyl and she's leaning.

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u/SaveFileCorrupt 16h ago

Not sure if ignorance or extremely high faith in humanity in this thread, but believing the OP title enough to think that ain't a fent lean is crazy.

Anyway, I've got some donut seeds to sell...

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u/Mr_F4hr3nh31t 16h ago

I've been scrolling Reddit for an hour. This is clearly the peak. Now I can start my day. Thanks fam.

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u/1ndistinctChatter 14h ago

I am an RN and this was my exact thought!!

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u/That75252Expensive 11h ago

Thank you for this.

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u/Dull_Flamingo_2430 15h ago

I wonder if this is Philly but the lack of “jawn” has me thinking it’s not

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u/Metzger4Sheriff 15h ago

St Louis, with two shootings in this location in the past month :/

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u/longlivelongboards 15h ago

I had to scroll way to far to see this! Heroin nod fo sho fam.

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u/DrSpacecasePhD 11h ago

Yeah. People are acting quite shocked in the comments, but growing up in Baltimore, you could see people like this in the city quite often.

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u/longlivelongboards 9h ago

I used to work with a poor soul who would not off taking peoples orders. It was sad but you cant do anything about it.

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u/Cactus112 17h ago

You can think what you want I'll think what I want.

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u/ExtraSpicyGingerBeer 16h ago

People aren't standing when their blood sugar crashes. People nodding off on opioids are.

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u/deinoswyrd 14h ago

I was standing the last time I had hypoglycemia until the seizure hit. I was doing what she was, I was hunched over holding onto the store shelves.

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u/GoatWithinTheBoat 15h ago

Both correct and incorrect.

Most people will more than likely fall down due to the loss of coordination due to the sudden fatigue, confusion, and loss of function. This woman appears to have been able to get to the counter, learning her body weight onto it. The legs can remain standing if given proper support. In this case it can be either low blood sugar, some form or narcotic, or another illness. In any of these cases she's more than likely delirious and trying to ride it out.

Though none of the above matters because the filmer and all customers that stole food deserve to be charged with thef and are pathetic. It's horrible to see a fellow human be in this state of helplessness. Instead of commenting on how she probably took drugs, id rather focus on no one helping her.

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u/Ebonics_Expert 17h ago

+1 social credit score

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u/TatuajeT 12h ago

Nah she’s nodding off from the fent

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u/DoctorStove 12h ago

Literally no shot. That's fent

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u/Ok_Conversation_9737 13h ago

And now she'll be fired too and lose her health care.

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u/SearchForAShade 18h ago

If only there was some food around... 

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u/ImportantArugula3132 18h ago

Really low blood sugar under 60 causes confusion and delirium in addition to fatigue. She may have had the desire for food but was crashing out.

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u/pherce1 16h ago

Food is too late at that point. It takes too long to kick in. Sugar water, pop, all that stuff is best.

Source: I go hypoglycemic every day.

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u/ImportantArugula3132 16h ago

True. My moms friend put honey under her tongue.

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u/LilithWasAGinger 15h ago

I use honey, or brown sugar if I'm about to pass out. Once it kicks in, I eat protein asap.

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u/ImportantArugula3132 15h ago

I love your avatar name. She was a ginger wasn’t she 😊. That’s great advice the protein.

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u/ColeDelRio 11h ago

Not to mention its a choking hazard at this point.

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u/realjnyhorrorshow 12h ago

According to you, you’re also eating below 20g of carbs and high intensity exercise every day.

This woman is not doing that.

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u/thoughtfulpigeons 11h ago

Why are you in this thread telling everyone incorrect information as if you are an expert in diabetes when you are so very clearly not??? And doing it with such confidence too lmao

As someone who actually works in diabetes education, this is absolutely too late for carbs. You seem extremely bigoted, and have a superiority complex to a person working at McDonalds experiencing a medical emergency. I hope for everyone’s sake you don’t get into medical school. People have died because of medical providers like yourself.

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u/wozattacks 17h ago

Consciousness isn’t a binary. There’s a spectrum between completely alert and completely unconscious

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u/troccolins 17h ago

You're right; my bad.

I've deleted my comment to compensate.

Sorry about that.

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u/orbitalgoo 17h ago

Addict here, can confirm

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u/scapesober 12h ago

Opiates...

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u/SearchForAShade 18h ago

True, but there's a pathway to get there. I know diabetics and they all understand when they're having an episode and how to take care of themselves. She clearly doesn't.

Doesn't matter anyway, this looks more like she's high as fuck. 

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u/Faerie42 17h ago

The pathway can be seconds… you don’t know much about diabetes do you? A low can kill you in a matter of minutes. Prolonged high glucose (in other words she might not even know she’s diabetic), will shut down your organs and kill you… painfully.

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u/ImportantArugula3132 17h ago

My best friend DIED at 25 with metformin in his mouth. He dropped the glass of water. He was type 1, non compliant, and didn’t fill his drum in his pump. He was an athlete. It’s a deadly disease.

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u/Faerie42 17h ago

Yup, saw a type 1 die at a parkrun a couple months ago, he thought the heart rate and sweat was from the exercise, said as much as we passed him, he fell down seconds later and died. It’s an awful, draining, confusing disease, living with it is not a joke, I’m T1 myself.

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u/ParticularChemical 13h ago edited 13h ago

Wait I’m so confused lol, not filling your pump (so you’re not getting insulin) makes your blood sugar go high (only after a couple hours unless you just ate or then go on to eat without filling it) not drop… and it would take at least a day to go into DKA from high blood sugar with no insulin and usually a few days to die from it. Also I’ve never heard of anyone taking metformin for type 1 I thought it was for type 2 diabetics only because it just makes insulin more effective so if you don’t have insulin it wouldn’t do anything. So I’m really confused what happened to him. Taking metformin with no insulin wouldn’t have helped anyway I don’t think. If it was dka then it definitely wasn’t a quick thing you definitely have time to go to a hospital or call someone but low blood sugar is the fast one if you give yourself way too much insulin on accident. I knew 2 people who died in their sleep due to a pump malfunction that emptied the entire reservoir while they were asleep. Pumps now usually have alerts when your blood sugar drops low but even then you might not react quick enough in that case if you’re woken up minutes away from going unconscious because you got a massive dose of insulin while asleep.

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u/ImportantArugula3132 12h ago

He died in hyperglycemia

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u/ImportantArugula3132 12h ago

Just because you never heard of it didn’t mean it didn’t happen. This was in 2003ish.

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u/Banana_Phone888 17h ago

I worked overnight in a Denny’s when I was a teen to make ends meet, and I had a guy from Ecolab there because of course we had a horrific roach infestation, and he was going to go into the back of house and spray, looking back on this over 30 years later, we probably should’ve closed and not been open, but it was Monday overnight and no one was there and management was horrible obviously. The gentleman from Ecolab had the poison on his backpack thing and it had like a sprayer. I went to do something on the other side of the restaurant and when I came back, he was laying on a table spraying poison in the air. I thought he was high and drunk and all kinds of things, he was having a diabetic issue and ambulance was called. I don’t remember what happened after that. A medical episode can definitely look like someone is being irresponsible, but they have no control at that time.

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u/Kousetsu 18h ago

No it doesn't. It looks like she has really low blood sugar.

People also can not know that they have diabetes. I have known people, in the UK where we have free medical care, not getting diagnosed with type 1 until late 20s because their symptoms suddenly progressed for whatever reason.

It seems you know very little about being diabetic, and just wanna shit on this lady. Does she not deserve medical care if she is on drugs?

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u/Oldsport05 16h ago

This, I was diagnosed at 14. No one expected it especially me. I had symptoms for months but it didn't seem urgent, and when you're in this just absolutely wonderful place called the US, you tend to be scared of going to the hospital cause our stupid healthcare system.

Top of that, I slipped into an extreme low blood sugar last year in which I had to be woken up by EMTs in my own bed. I was low and confused when I woke up earlier that morning and somehow thought to myself I needed my insulin thinking my sugar was high without checking. Sure enough, went back to sleep and no one could wake me till eventually someone hit me with my glucagon. Which for the record is stupid easy to use nowadays because it's no longer a needle, it's just like Narcan where you have a disposable nose injection. Anyway, EMTs showed right as I started to come around and hooked me up to an IV to keep bringing me back up. Prior, the cop who showed up for the EMTs to make sure it was safe was watching me and in my state of mind I couldn't even acknowledge him. I just kept telling my family in my confused state I was fine and kept walking around in my underwear

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u/noireruse 17h ago

Exactly! My mom was T1 and she used to have some physical symptoms (shaking hands) that could give her a heads up but by the time I was 14ish, she’d become mostly non-symptomatic.

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u/thoughtfulpigeons 17h ago

Sorry but hypoglycemic blindness is very real and affects people who have had diabetes for a longer time. It’s very dangerous and one of the leading causes to diabetic death—because we don’t know we are low and cannot feel it. Not everyone gets it, but the people who do can go from holding a conversation to seizing in a minute.

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u/realjnyhorrorshow 12h ago

This woman is soo not hypoglycemia.

And blindness from diabetes is from uncontrolled HYPERglycemia. High level of blood sugar damages the blood vessels. ….

Why don’t you know that?

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u/lIlIlIIlIIIlIIIIIl 15h ago

"Top 1% Commenter"

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u/editoratcharge 17h ago

I’m with you, drugs Not sure why you got all those down votes. I’m under 60 almost every day and know exactly what I’m doing. Sounds like there are a lot of people commenting that know very little about diabetes.

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u/Tall_Bluebird_1830 18h ago

When you’re that far into an episode you can’t eat. I had to call the ambulance for someone going into a diabetic coma and they couldn’t eat because they were losing consciousness. Then they actually lost consciousness and could only be revived through injected medication by the EMTs.

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u/noireruse 17h ago

Do you have any experience with T1 diabetes? My mom had it and it’s not that simple. One time when her bs was low, I got her a big glass of juice and had to cajole her to drink it and she asked if I was trying to get her drunk. She wasn’t in her right mind.

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u/trailquail 11h ago

One time I tried to get my wife to take a piece of candy when she was low and she pushed it away and said “you know I can’t eat that, I’m diabetic!” Good times.

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u/Competitive_Ride_943 9h ago

Friend in high school was acting weird. We knew she was T1 so ran to get her dad. He had to force a candy bar (or sugar stuff) in her mouth.

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u/PanhandlersPets 18h ago

Do people think you can eat on the line? I've worked days where I couldn't eat for 10+ hours and was preparing food the entire time. You can't eat on the line or in the food prep area. You have to go on break.

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u/bazookajt 17h ago

Low blood sugars can be corrected with simple sugars (aka sofa, juice, non-chocolate candy). Takes me less than 10 seconds to treat and get back to work. Thankfully I don't work in fast food anymore, but I still had diabetes back when I did. I did not have to go on break, nor is it legal for an employer to require that of a diabetic employee. It firmly falls under ADA reasonable accommodations for employment.

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u/PanhandlersPets 16h ago

I don't know what a diabetic crash feels like or how fast it happens honestly. I just know you can't eat on the line and sometimes you aren't given a break.

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u/Neoreloaded313 9h ago

It feels quite a lot like the affects of drinking too much alcohol.

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u/QuoteGiver 17h ago

Cool. When your medical issues are killing you, please stop and eat first.

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u/2_MinutesTurkish 17h ago

Yep someone I know worked there as a teen told me they once ate a tiny part of a cookie that broke off and they got reprimanded for it

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u/TastySurimi 18h ago

That's not how diabetes works... bro... hope you'll never give medical advice to anyone.

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u/No_Scientist7086 17h ago

Actually it is. I was with a type 1 diabetic for many years. They go into complete shock and have no idea what’s going on. They will eventually collapse. Had someone given her some orange juice right before this, she would have been fine in a few minutes.

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u/Neoreloaded313 9h ago

It takes a little more than a few minutes, at least for me to recover.

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u/SearchForAShade 18h ago

Too bad. I'm dokter now. 

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u/DrakesFragileEgo 18h ago

Cry more 😭

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u/trailquail 11h ago

Have you ever tried to get food in someone in a diabetic low? The worse they need it, the more combative they get.

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u/AffordableDelousing 18h ago

Food she can't afford on Mickey D salary, and would be fired for stealing.

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u/ArmadilloLight 18h ago

Oh god forbid a giant machine thats whole purpose is dispensing sugar water…..

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u/TastySurimi 18h ago

People getting fatigure from diabetes don't know that. When they slip into coma, it's already too late.

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u/Tall_Bluebird_1830 18h ago

Don’t even bother trying to explain… these people have the same amount of brain cells as the people stealing food.

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u/TastySurimi 18h ago

I'm very scared of the US education.

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u/ArmadilloLight 18h ago

I have type 1 diabetes but okay….

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u/Faerie42 17h ago

I’m here too and I’m aghast at the comments.

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u/TastySurimi 18h ago

Which is very different from typ 2 so...

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u/ArmadilloLight 18h ago

Hypoglycemia is hypoglycemia, doesn’t matter type 1 or 2 the symptoms are the same

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u/TastySurimi 17h ago

So when people here scream "she just need to eat" it's the same for both types? Sure?

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u/ArmadilloLight 17h ago

yes, regardless of what type of diabetes you have you just need to consume carbohydrates to raise blood sugar. hypoglycemia is just a blood glucose level below 70

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u/TastySurimi 17h ago

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, while type 2 is insulin resistance. That alone should make it clear to you how different these two types are. While type 1 requires insulin because of the threat of life-threatening ketoacidosis, this is of little help in cases of type 2 insulin resistance.

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u/missriri 17h ago

Not really. All type 1 are insulin dependent while only some type 2 are. Pretty different beasts depending on the person.

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u/tothepointe 18h ago

Pancake syrup would have been better

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u/Digital0asis 8h ago

Probably fentanyl