Viki
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Because I really, really am not in the mood this morning.
Got in from work last night, tested at 8.3 just before taking the dog out. Got home and within 10 mins hit 2.5!! No idea where that came from, it wasn?t a particularly long or strenuous walk by any stretch of the imagination and I wasn?t exactly low to start with!
So I hit the cereal. Now I know DAFNE says treat with 10g of carbohydrate but I defy anyone in a house on their own and that low, to be able to stop after 10g when your entire body is screaming for food. I had the full hypo works, shaky, sweats blah blah but topped with numb tingly feet, hands and face, buckling knees, confusion and panic!
I only had one bowl, but it was a large bowl, and all we had was fruit and fibre, which I find difficult to manage normally because of the resulting spike. I ate it came back round and collapsed on the sofa feeling sorry for myself. Brad came home and we had dinner, he had to cook it because I was still pretty out of it with a nasty hypo hangover.
By 10pm im thinking the worst is over and im just feeling the after effects (noticed I was going to the loo a bit more frequently than normal but figured I was probably running a bit high which was probably safer after such a crashing low). I went to bed and did the normal pre bed blood test . . . 32.6😱!!!!!!! I nearly fell out of bed, so thinking it must be a mistake I went a washed my hands and tested again . . . 32.6😱!
On the one hand I was mildly impressed at my meters consistency, on the other I was terrified. Instant ketone test, negative thankfully, and a few pints of water later im laying in bed waiting for the minutes to tick by so I can get some desperately needed sleep. Finally hit single figures at 3am.
4.5 hours later the alarm clock went off this morning and surprise surprise im in the 2?s again.
Im now sitting at my desk, looking like I got dressed in a very dark wind tunnel (!) with stomach cramps, kidney pain and a headache that im sure other people can hear (!!!), wondering why its all gone wrong again.
A few days without it so I can recover, is that really too much to ask for?
Got in from work last night, tested at 8.3 just before taking the dog out. Got home and within 10 mins hit 2.5!! No idea where that came from, it wasn?t a particularly long or strenuous walk by any stretch of the imagination and I wasn?t exactly low to start with!
So I hit the cereal. Now I know DAFNE says treat with 10g of carbohydrate but I defy anyone in a house on their own and that low, to be able to stop after 10g when your entire body is screaming for food. I had the full hypo works, shaky, sweats blah blah but topped with numb tingly feet, hands and face, buckling knees, confusion and panic!
I only had one bowl, but it was a large bowl, and all we had was fruit and fibre, which I find difficult to manage normally because of the resulting spike. I ate it came back round and collapsed on the sofa feeling sorry for myself. Brad came home and we had dinner, he had to cook it because I was still pretty out of it with a nasty hypo hangover.
By 10pm im thinking the worst is over and im just feeling the after effects (noticed I was going to the loo a bit more frequently than normal but figured I was probably running a bit high which was probably safer after such a crashing low). I went to bed and did the normal pre bed blood test . . . 32.6😱!!!!!!! I nearly fell out of bed, so thinking it must be a mistake I went a washed my hands and tested again . . . 32.6😱!
On the one hand I was mildly impressed at my meters consistency, on the other I was terrified. Instant ketone test, negative thankfully, and a few pints of water later im laying in bed waiting for the minutes to tick by so I can get some desperately needed sleep. Finally hit single figures at 3am.
4.5 hours later the alarm clock went off this morning and surprise surprise im in the 2?s again.
Im now sitting at my desk, looking like I got dressed in a very dark wind tunnel (!) with stomach cramps, kidney pain and a headache that im sure other people can hear (!!!), wondering why its all gone wrong again.
A few days without it so I can recover, is that really too much to ask for?
