Hypo now 3.5 mmol/l

[helli]

Just out of interest ... in your opinion which of these works the fastest, and what is your preference?
1 dextrose tab (3 gCHO)
1 JB (5 gCHO)
1 skittle (3 gCHO)
50 ml Tropicana (4.7 gCHO)

My preference is 1 x Lift tab (4 gCHO).
I avoid sweets (JB, skittle, etc.). In the past, this has been seen as eating treats and not sharing.
I prefer the packaging of Lift over dextrose as they come in plastic tubes which last longer than the paper of dextrose.
I bought 3 tubes of GlucoTabs about 8 years ago and refill these tubes from tubs containing 50 tabs each which I buy in bulk from eBay,

 

[rayray119]

Reading through this thread I'm sort of surprised that people have alerts set in the 5s, because that is the level I aim to be at all the time (wishful thinking!). A non-diabetic person's BG is normally in the 5s. I understand the international consensus is that anything under 3.9 is considered a "low" and that we should aim for less than 4% of time below that (with 70% TIR).

That's what I've always been told. I have my alarm set at 4.2 and have maintained 0% of the time lower than that for the last 90days. That said it doesn't mean that the alarm hasn't gone off, it just means that I've caught it in time. I thank goodness for those alarms. I use Dextro tabs because in my opinion they're a lot faster than JBs and you're not in the least tempted to over-consume them. Oh and I do still have hypo awareness.

Well sometimes I found it useful especially when I was doing my Christmas elf job as there would be more a lag time with the activitity a an alert at 5.6 double arrows down or even a straight arrow down could have well ment i was in the 4s allready also dexcom explain I. Thier train videos that a straight arrow down could mean you fall up 5 mmolls withen the next 30 minutes.

 

[rebrascora]

Well sometimes I found it useful especially when I was doing my Christmas elf job as there would be more a lag time with the activitity a an alert at 5.6 double arrows down or even a straight arrow down could have well ment i was in the 4s allready also dexcom explain I. Thier train videos that a straight arrow down could mean you fall up 5 mmolls withen the next 30 minutes.

But just to counterbalance that scary thought of levels dropping fast, 15g fast acting carbs could raise your BG by 4.5 mmols in 15-20 mins, so getting that hypo treatment into you asap can stop the drop and start to raise things quite quickly.

 

[rayray119]

But just to counterbalance that scary thought of levels dropping fast, 15g fast acting carbs could raise your BG by 4.5 mmols in 15-20 mins, so getting that hypo treatment into you asap can stop the drop and start to raise things quite quickly.

Yeah thats why I had set to to there. I wasn't nesarcy scared just new it was time to do something about it.

 

[rayray119]

Yeah thats why I had set to to there. I wasn't nesarcy scared just new it was time to do something about it.

I was just explaining the thought of process of setting the alarm at that level as @Pattidevans said she was surprised.

 

[rayray119]

Well sometimes I found it useful especially when I was doing my Christmas elf job as there would be more a lag time with the activitity a an alert at 5.6 double arrows down or even a straight arrow down could have well ment i was in the 4s allready also dexcom explain I. Thier train videos that a straight arrow down could mean you fall up 5 mmolls withen the next 30 minutes.

Then again I guess the beep could have sounded like it's was a phone going off or something to customers which I guess could have looked bad(the company were well aware I was a type 1 diabetic I made that clear in my interview but customers wouldn't have nessacery had known that.