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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning 5.4 and an 11:45pm hypo drench (new favourite time) again. Starbucks chocolate cake at fault there me thinks, I had to correct because they've changed the recipe (yuk didn't like it) and she gave me the carb for 100g, so when I got home checked my blood sugar and the carb value on the web I did a 1 unit correction (which is less than should have been needed) dropped me 5mmol/l 🙄 and I think I was still dropping when I injected for dinner so congratulating myself on managing to get to a 7 before bed was premature. Oh yes Mr consultant of course I can snack with insulin between meals, yep works wonderfully (the cake was my lunch, but the correction is an example of how stacking works for me....not at all 😱). Grumble over!
 
Ack! Sorry to hear this KC :( I could probably count on my fingers the number of times I've stacked, and it nearly always ended in hypodrench 😱 Really hope you can get it through to the consultant how unlike the text book people are!
 
Northerner said:
Ack! Sorry to hear this KC :( I could probably count on my fingers the number of times I've stacked, and it nearly always ended in hypodrench 😱 Really hope you can get it through to the consultant how unlike the text book people are!
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I should have known better, but thought I was probably safe because she'd given me a value that was nearly 30g under (wouldn't have eaten it if I'd known that before hand, they made it all sweet and sickly), so I thought one unit would bring it down enough but not too much. I'm glad to hear stacking doesn't work for you either, the way my consultant talks you can eat 7meals a day if you want, no problem at all. Maybe I should suggest he inject insulin for his snacks and see how that goes for him 🙄
 
Morning all. 🙂 3.6 here.😛
 
Good morning 🙂 4.1 here today.

I really hope you can get some sense out of your next appointment KookyC. Stacking is a risky business- even worse when the cake wasn't good - the initial good results lull me into a false sense of security until all the insulin gangs up and guarantees hypo drench.
 
Flower said:
Good morning 🙂 4.1 here today.

I really hope you can get some sense out of your next appointment KookyC. Stacking is a risky business- even worse when the cake wasn't good - the initial good results lull me into a false sense of security until all the insulin gangs up and guarantees hypo drench.
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I shan't be doing it again that's for sure, if one unit drops me 5mmol/l I don't have a chance. Least it's a good example for consulty pants 🙂
 
Morning 5.6 today, and I believe we're in for post apocalyptic rain, marvellous 😉
 
Good morning very happy with my 5.5 after guesstimating a Chinese takeaway🙂
 
Thank you Northerner🙂
 
Morning 5.8 today, small hypo at 1:15am, never had that time before, so something new and exciting 😉
 
Good morning 5.0 for me🙂
 
Thank you Alan. I'm really pleased that they've stabilised again 🙂
 
Morning folks.🙂 4.7 for me.😛
 
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