Evening

[Louise Thomas]

Hello everyone,

How we all feeling today?
Had two hypos today after dancing all morning!

Hate having to try and guess where I am after having lucozade? Have I had too much lucozade that I'm going to have a super high reading later or have I not had enough and go low again? (Dancer problems)

Any suggestions on how to sort this out?

Love Lou

 

[mikeyB]

Experience. You will learn if you test regularly exactly how much you need to correct, then it will become second nature. Don't worry if you overshoot, that's what insulin is for. I use Dextro tabs, they are more precise, and don't make me feel sick like Lucozade does. They are reducing the sugar in it anyway - you don't want to be reading small print when you are hypo. Jelly babies and Fruit Pastilles are pretty precise as well.

 

[Louise Thomas]

Experience. You will learn if you test regularly exactly how much you need to correct, then it will become second nature. Don't worry if you overshoot, that's what insulin is for. I use Dextro tabs, they are more precise, and don't make me feel sick like Lucozade does. They are reducing the sugar in it anyway - you don't want to be reading small print when you are hypo. Jelly babies and Fruit Pastilles are pretty precise as well.

Hi Mikey, thank you for your response. You'd think growing up with it and having it for 15 years now it would seem easy but I can never read my body sometimes it does up and takes me a while to get it back down but then other times I am constantly low and can't get them back up, as you said getting to know my body is key. Being a full time dancer though also plays a role in my hypos... oh it's just all so confusing!

 

[PhoebeC]

Hope you are feeling better with it today.

I was hyper then hypo then hyper again today, testing again in a moment, finger crossed!

 

[Amberzak]

I nearly always go high after a low. I also find that I'm not in the right mind to
Judge how much I'm going to need to get me out of a hypo when I'm actually in one. It's hard.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I nearly always go high after a low. I also find that I'm not in the right mind to
Judge how much I'm going to need to get me out of a hypo when I'm actually in one. It's hard.

I'm the same, I usually over correct as I feel so rough.

 

[Louise Thomas]

Hope you are feeling better with it today.

I was hyper then hypo then hyper again today, testing again in a moment, finger crossed!

Hope the reading was better? It always makes me feel horrible when they jump up and down!

 

[Louise Thomas]

I nearly always go high after a low. I also find that I'm not in the right mind to
Judge how much I'm going to need to get me out of a hypo when I'm actually in one. It's hard.

tell me about it! When I have a hypo I just want to eat anything and everything! It all tastes so much nicer! Haha

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

Hello everyone,

How we all feeling today?
Had two hypos today after dancing all morning!

Hate having to try and guess where I am after having lucozade? Have I had too much lucozade that I'm going to have a super high reading later or have I not had enough and go low again? (Dancer problems)

Any suggestions on how to sort this out?

Love Lou

It must be really hard to balance this given you're a dancer, I guess the trick is to have enough carb on board to see you through a class, performance etc, hopefully overtime you will be the best judge of that, as Mikey said experience is key. Good luck 🙂

 

[sunny sanghera]

tell me about it! When I have a hypo I just want to eat anything and everything! It all tastes so much nicer! Haha

I agree food tastes much better when your having a hypo Then when you test later and it's high you wish you had not ate it

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I feel starving when I'm hypo, weirdly I can feel sick at the same time, but the hunger overrides it, talk about conflicted 🙄

 

[trophywench]

We are all different - I don't feel like eating anything when I'm hypo - I have difficulty swallowing and chewing is definitely out. Is why Lucozade is ideal for me. Plus I completely resent eating 'nice' stuff for a hypo - cos it's impossible to ENJOY whatever I use for hypos - and I only bought whatever treat it is, to ENJOY.

 

[Louise Thomas]

It must be really hard to balance this given you're a dancer, I guess the trick is to have enough carb on board to see you through a class, performance etc, hopefully overtime you will be the best judge of that, as Mikey said experience is key. Good luck 🙂

Hi, yeah it's a challenge as the last thing I want to do it have a hypo while on stay performing! How embarrassing would that be!

Yeah I think experience is key!

 

[Louise Thomas]

I feel starving when I'm hypo, weirdly I can feel sick at the same time, but the hunger overrides it, talk about conflicted 🙄

It's the best feeling in the world when you unleash yourself in the cupboard ... 2 hours later ... not so much! Haha

 

[sunny sanghera]

Hi, yeah it's a challenge as the last thing I want to do it have a hypo while on stay performing! How embarrassing would that be!

Yeah I think experience is key!

I had a hypo once while I was playing a Sunday league football match few years back I still kept playing even tho I knew my levels were dropping as I don't like moaning and felt I could get threw it then people were staring at me as I was all over the place and had to stop all that after I drank a whole bottle of lucozade before the match but still my levels dropped