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A frightening experience for me

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Good to hear that you are getting treatment for your problems Michael, cracked ribs can be painful for some time - hope things heal quickly for you 🙂

I'm wondering if what may have happened was this: You injected for you meal, ate what you could as appetite was suppressed due to the heat, but you did manage the potatoes. For some reason, the insulin was not being absorbed properly from your injection site, so your levels went high making you feel sleepy and you dozed off. Much later, as you dozed, the insulin decided to release into your bloodstream sending your levels plummeting. The hypo woke you up and you went on your hazardous chocolate quest.

Only guessing of course, as this sort of thing has happened to me, but thankfully it's very rare. Sometimes these things just can't be explained. Do you rotate your injection sites regularly? Sometimes scar tissue can build up at an injection site and that can lead to an uneven release of the injected insulin.

Anyway, hope there are no more such incidents for you! 🙂
 
I have to wait until September for my jelly babies because my sister is not due to visit me until then.

I use my upper arms for my daily injection sites, each one in turn and then in different places - as evidenced by the bruises! If I go out for a meal - not very often - I usually inject into my belly. My Lantus each night goes into my thighs.

Michael
 
Michael12420 said:
I have to wait until September for my jelly babies because my sister is not due to visit me until then.

I use my upper arms for my daily injection sites, each one in turn and then in different places - as evidenced by the bruises! If I go out for a meal - not very often - I usually inject into my belly. My Lantus each night goes into my thighs.

Michael
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Hey Michael I would be happy to send you a few packs free of charge 🙂
Just send me your address details via personal message and will send tomorrow if that would help 🙂
 
What an ordeal Michael - I do hope it doesn't happen again.

Like Jalapino if you pm me your address I am more than happy to send you jelly babies in the next day or so.🙂
 
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