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Hypo when eating lunch

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mum2westiesGill

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Had my lunch not too long ago I'd eaten my jacket potato & was eating my choc ice & went hypo but it was too late to do anything about ie testing because the hypo symptoms had well & truly set in ie sweating & a fuzzy feeling on my tongue but it was one if those eating hypos so I ended up having an extra choc ice 2 jelly babies & 2 custard cream biscuits which is 38g extra of carbs. I'm going to be testing again approx 2 hours after I had my lunch so we'll see what my BG level is then!
 
So 2 hours after lunch tested BG & unbelievably after eating all those extra carbs it was 3.7 even though I didn't feel hypo this time so I had 3 jelly babies to treat the hypo & 15 minutes later it's now a nice 6.2 so I'm going to have 2 custard cream biscuits (16g carbs) because meal isn't due yet & no bolus for the 2 biscuits xx
 
What did you have with your jacket potato? sorry but I'm predicting a high later at some point as I'm assuming there was a lot of fat consumed that may strike later x
 
Hi Kaylz, I had tuna & mayo with the jacket potato
 
That's a lot of carb to fix a hypo, LOL.😛 That happens to me ev now and then - I think I've probably eaten too much and then it seems I haven't...who knows what goes on in our bodies sometimes?!🙄 I hope you're OK now, Gill.🙂
 
Do you have any idea why you went so low Gill?
 
Radders said:
Do you have any idea why you went so low Gill?
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I'm wondering if the reason is because my BG before lunch was 4.3 & I injected for lunch. At that level of BG I should've injected after lunch.
 
Before breakfast this morning BG was 4.0 so I injected after breakfast 🙂
 
It's all trial and error, especially if you're new to the game.
 
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