DancingStar
Active Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 3c
Woke up at 2am with a horrible hypo. i was so shaky I could barely get my glucose testing kit out & prick my finger - blood glucose 2.5.
Ate 3 jelly babies, waited 15 minutes and retested - 2.8. Panicked a bit and ate 5 more jelly babies. I still felt very shaky after 15 more minutes and rather than being sensible and testing again I just ate 5 more jelly babies and a slice of wholemeal bread and peanut butter. Tbh I'd have probably eaten more jelly babies as well, but that was all I had in the packet and the rest were in the car. I hadn't woken my husband so I was on my own in the kitchen. i was scared I was going to pass out while I was on my own.
Fell asleep on the sofa around 3am.
Woke at 7.45am, tested my blood - 20.1. Wanted to cry. Had 20 lantus and 12 novo rapid (correction dose plus insulin to cover breakfast carbs).
In the middle of teaching at 12 when I felt horribly shaky. Couldn't stop to test blood sugar in front of students, ate 3 jelly babies.
Tested blood at 1.15pm when I got home - 12.8. Was it a real hypo or just my imagination?
Tested blood sugar at 7.30pm before my dinner - 12.5.
I feel quite deflated. I'd kept blood sugar below 9 all week and now it seems to have gone haywire again. And to top it all I have big black bruises on the ends of 2 of my fingers where I've been finger pricking.
Ate 3 jelly babies, waited 15 minutes and retested - 2.8. Panicked a bit and ate 5 more jelly babies. I still felt very shaky after 15 more minutes and rather than being sensible and testing again I just ate 5 more jelly babies and a slice of wholemeal bread and peanut butter. Tbh I'd have probably eaten more jelly babies as well, but that was all I had in the packet and the rest were in the car. I hadn't woken my husband so I was on my own in the kitchen. i was scared I was going to pass out while I was on my own.
Fell asleep on the sofa around 3am.
Woke at 7.45am, tested my blood - 20.1. Wanted to cry. Had 20 lantus and 12 novo rapid (correction dose plus insulin to cover breakfast carbs).
In the middle of teaching at 12 when I felt horribly shaky. Couldn't stop to test blood sugar in front of students, ate 3 jelly babies.
Tested blood at 1.15pm when I got home - 12.8. Was it a real hypo or just my imagination?
Tested blood sugar at 7.30pm before my dinner - 12.5.
I feel quite deflated. I'd kept blood sugar below 9 all week and now it seems to have gone haywire again. And to top it all I have big black bruises on the ends of 2 of my fingers where I've been finger pricking.
