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Hypos

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Just curious what you all do when you have a hypo to stop from then going the other way?? Whether it be in the night or day?
 
A couple of jelly babies usually sorts me out. I tend not to overtreat because I know that highs make me feel unwell. I've had a few hypos that have been very tricky to treat though, when you start to wonder if your treatment will ever take effect, but most are pretty straightforward 🙂

What do you do?
 
Some people use the 15 min rule. 15 carbs and wait 15mins before retesting.
 
I usually eat whatever's available in the house. But I really hate the feeling of having a hypo and it makes me think really unclearly so I end up eating too much to try stop the feeling quicker! Especially if I hypo during the night I have a massive phobia of it so I really panic!
 
The 'eat everything' feeling is petty hard to resist. I have more success in not overtreating by using rapid things (jelly babies, fruit pastilles) very quickest acting is carbonated full sugar drink eg coke, lucozade etc.
 
I don't tend to keep coke or lucazade in the house as it'll never get drunk! Might buy some jelly babies and stash them away! Although I still think ill over eat even with them! Lol
 
Well the Lucozade is enirely mine and medicinal, we don't have it for any other purpose whatsoever and I have a glass inverted over the top of it marked with felt nib to the 60ml mark, which is 10g carb. I use 10g, 10 minutes !

I'd never drink more, I do like the taste of the orange one, except it's just FAR too sweet. And the advantage of being a liquid is of course you start to absorb the glucose immediately through the inside of your cheeks before swallowing - so it's really really fast. Which staves off the bit where you start looking for c**p.
 
trophywench said:
Well the Lucozade is enirely mine and medicinal, we don't have it for any other purpose whatsoever and I have a glass inverted over the top of it marked with felt nib to the 60ml mark, which is 10g carb. I use 10g, 10 minutes !

I'd never drink more, I do like the taste of the orange one, except it's just FAR too sweet. And the advantage of being a liquid is of course you start to absorb the glucose immediately through the inside of your cheeks before swallowing - so it's really really fast. Which staves off the bit where you start looking for c**p.
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I take 2 glucose tablets at the first symptom signs - for me sweating snd a "funny" feeling in the tops of my legs. Test after 10 minutes and have a drink if still in the 4s. Tend to act first and test after at the moment. I get chest palpitations when in the mid to low 3s. After half an hour have a sandwich. However yesterday found that all this led me to have a reading of 12 after an hour. Obviously over compensated but I was down town shopping and on my own so panicked a bit. Having had levels in the mid to high 20s most of the summer before going on to insulin the high numbers don't scare me as much as the possibility of going into a coma.
 
I am the same but then it gets to a point of being scared to go low in public so am constantly keeping it high so not to cause inconvenience or problems. Which is why I now have other health problems ugghh :-(
 
Measured portions, using only one thing for hypo treatment, and discipline.

Doesn't always work :D

But generally what I do is use glucose tablets rather than 'food' to treat a hypo. My feeling is if I enjoy what I'm eating to treat a hypo, I will rationalise to myself it's ok to eat a lot of it "because I'm hypo". So I'll eat glucose tablets - they're not terrible but not delicious either. Four of those will usually sort me out.
 
That's usually why I pick orange flavour dextrose! Cause they are gross so more like taking medicine and won't eat too many!
 
I find Lucozade tablets easier to chew than Dextrose and as they're pure glucose they also get absorbed directly from the mouth whereas Jelly Babies and pastilles have to be digested before they start to work. Don't mind which flavour Lucozade tabs, but they're not so delicious I want to carry on eating them. I go by the 15 rule - 15g and wait 15 mins, if a meal isn't imminent I'll have 15g slower acting carb e.g. a Twix biscuit bar. The ones you buy in the biscuit section, not the sweet section.
 
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