Fe 82
Active Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I had an awful experience of this at the weekend, and I just wouldn't want anyone else to do the same.
In the garage I saw these 60ml bottles of Lucozade. I thought, brilliant!, I've wanted handy sized bottles for ages! Bought a couple to try without paying due attention to the label (stupid stupid!). Then later on I went hypo, grabbed for one, and half way through it I thought, this is odd, it's not fizzy. Checked the sugar content, and there is NONE. All caffeine. So with this caffeine shot and going hypo, colours went excruciatingly irridescent, I started panicking, and felt really dizzy. I managed to grab a standard bottle from the cupboard and after five minutes was ok.
Overall an utterly horrible sensation though; the bottles are really powerful, and on the standard Lucozade the caffeine is only 0.02%; in these bottles it is 0.2% (10 times greater!) - huge difference.
So if anyone else is tempted to try these - DONT - they are not good at all. If Lucozade were truly responsible, they wouldn't diversify within their product range without clearly informing consumers. I shouldn't have been so silly not to check, and the lesson here was horribly learnt.
Fe x
In the garage I saw these 60ml bottles of Lucozade. I thought, brilliant!, I've wanted handy sized bottles for ages! Bought a couple to try without paying due attention to the label (stupid stupid!). Then later on I went hypo, grabbed for one, and half way through it I thought, this is odd, it's not fizzy. Checked the sugar content, and there is NONE. All caffeine. So with this caffeine shot and going hypo, colours went excruciatingly irridescent, I started panicking, and felt really dizzy. I managed to grab a standard bottle from the cupboard and after five minutes was ok.
Overall an utterly horrible sensation though; the bottles are really powerful, and on the standard Lucozade the caffeine is only 0.02%; in these bottles it is 0.2% (10 times greater!) - huge difference.
So if anyone else is tempted to try these - DONT - they are not good at all. If Lucozade were truly responsible, they wouldn't diversify within their product range without clearly informing consumers. I shouldn't have been so silly not to check, and the lesson here was horribly learnt.
Fe x