low blood glucose / hypoglycaemia

[AnnSebastian]

Hypo’s are horrid, horrid things.
Here is some info on hypo’s
Treating hypo’s
It doesn’t say so in the above link, but you need to test and treat every 15 minutes until you are above 4.0.
It’s very easy to over treat a hypo , esp if you have the hypo hunger , this is where your feeding from the fridge and cupboards,
I set the timer on my meter fir 15 minutes to remind me to retest , as it’s easy to forget things when hypo even when you think you’re coping well.
Personally unless my BG goes very low or it’s one that just won’t go away , I don’t tend to have a snack as recommended afterwards as it would shoot my BG levels up far too high, but you may find you need to.

Causes

I know you posted this ages ago, but I see exactly what you’re saying. I don’t think I’ve ever had an actual hypo- but my diabetes nurse kept reinforcing how dangerous it is - so I probably overreacted.

Now I feel safer aiming for a lower BG reading - but I make sure that I always have a glucose fix at arms length just in case. But you’re right about over compensating.