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I Am Concerned with Recurrent Hypos...

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Mariam Agha

Mariam Agha

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I am struggling with recurrent hypos since 11 am and I do not know whether it is related to the newly introduced drug (I started methotrexate this morning) for my Rheumatoid Arthritis. Has anyone experienced this long and lasting chain of hypos or just me?? I have nearly finished a bottle of Lucozade :( I hate it xxx
 
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Mariam - 3 hours isn't all that long I'm afraid in the overall scheme of things, as long as they only happen very very occasionally. Presumably the only insulin on board you have, is your basal?

Have you had something else - that's a bit longer-acting carb - and not only Lucozade? - I think you should, frankly.
 
I haven't had any unusual foods. I am on Humulin I and Novorapid. For the very 1st time that I am experiencing hypos for this long in more than 20 years. :(
 
Hi Mariam. I agree with Jenny about having some longer acting carbs as well as Lucozade, I don't particularly like the stuff either.
Hypo's are horrid aren't they! The first one that takes time to resolve can be quite frightening.
I had a look online at the patient info for your new med, it mentioned it could cause higher BGs, I didn't see anything about causing lows, that's not so say it can't, perhaps have a chat with a pharmacist tomorrow.
In the meantime if you are getting worried about this hypo, call your out of hours gp service , possibly 111?
I hope you're hypo bu**ers off soon and you don't feel too rough afterwards.
 
Ljc said:
Hi Mariam. I agree with Jenny about having some longer acting carbs as well as Lucozade, I don't particularly like the stuff either.
Hypo's are horrid aren't they! The first one that takes time to resolve can be quite frightening.
I had a look online at the patient info for your new med, it mentioned it could cause higher BGs, I didn't see anything about causing lows.
I hope you're hypo bu**ers off soon and you don't feel too rough afterwards.
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Hypos are nightmares :(. I just checked my BG and it 3.7) style going downhill 🙂 I am careful in treating hypos coz I don't want to end up having hyper. I am hoping that they can settle down soon. My BG is normally stable after 3 pm until dinner time.
 
Hypos are a sight more dangerous than the odd high reading, Mariam. Hypos kill brain cells. Get some food inside you, as the others have suggested. And check that you haven't got the new lower sugar Lucozade, which I don't doubt tastes just as horrible as the original, but is only half as good at fixing hypos.
 
Thank you all for your comments. I am now feeling OK with constant reading of BG around 6. It was indeed an awful day :(
 
I'm glad you're better
 
How long have you been T1, Mariam? Did you know that if insulin doesn't absorb properly, it hangs round under your skin for any amount of time thereafter - but importantly - remains active for up to 12 years. So if one day a pocket you happen to have, suddenly decides it will absorb - we're stuffed for hour after hour after hour.

And there's no way of telling whether you've got any - or when they'll decide to break free, if they ever decide to. All in a day in a diabetic's life ........

I had one that there couldn't possibly be any other reason for but rather hilariously - whilst in with my DSN at the hospital! We were both late home that Friday - I couldn't drive obviously and she wouldn't leave me, so couldn't lock up and go home and do her husband's dinner. But he didn't mind when she told him why she was late - cos he was T1 anyway!
 
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How long have you been T1, Mariam? Did you know that if insulin doesn't absorb properly, it hangs round under your skin for any amount of time thereafter - but importantly - remains active for up to 12 years. So if one day a pocket you happen to have, suddenly decides it will absorb - we're stuffed for hour after hour after hour.

And there's no way of telling whether you've got any - or when they'll decide to break free, if they ever decide to. All in a day in a diabetic's life ........

I had one that there couldn't possibly be any other reason for but rather hilariously - whilst in with my DSN at the hospital! We were both late home that Friday - I couldn't drive obviously and she wouldn't leave me, so couldn't lock up and go home and do her husband's dinner. But he didn't mind when she told him why she was late - cos he was T1 anyway!
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Thanks Jenny for this info. Honestly, this is the first time I am hearing this, I started making sense of what has happened to me yesterday. I am a Type 1 for the last 21 years.
 
Well I wouldn't have heard of it either had I not been an active member of a forum (not this one) for a few years previously. But when I said tome DSN did she think it might be one of those? she didn't bat an eyelid and she couldn't think what else it might be instead either. No argument or 'That doesn't happen!' or anything at all.

But if you look it up on Google Scholar or the reference library etc - Yep! - it can and does happen!
 
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