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Hi , can anyone help? I've been type 1 for 15 years and for the last few years my hypos have been getting worse and worse. It's got to the stage where I've been below 1 and still functioning (almost) . I can't seem to find any pattern to them but it's now at least 2 a day , regardless of how much exercise/insulin I've had! My warning signs have all but disappeared and I'm really worried that one of these days I'm not going to be able to pull myself back!
I cycle 8 miles to work and there are times when I leave and my sugars are 8 , when I get there they can be in the high teens or below 2!! I can't get my head round it.
Any advice will be gratefully received !
 
Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear about your problems with hypos.

Do you have a DSN? who might be able to help you find some patterns.

Its possible that a high may be as a result of a hypo followed by a liver dump.

Another thing to consider may be how long it is before cycling and your last injection and food, that may be influencing things.

If you have a DSN you could ask about a CGM (Continuous glucose meter) which might enable any trends to be spotted.
 
Hi Trev, welcome to the forum 🙂 Where do you normally inject? Insulin will be absorbed more quickly from areas where the muscles are in use, so thighs would be out if cycling or running. What sort of HbA1c's are you getting? The standard advice when you lose hypo awareness is to allow your levels to run higher for a while so that your symptoms get a chance to return at higher levels - your brain has become far too accustomed to functioning when very low so you are giving yourself very little margin away from unconsciousness.

When I go out for a run I inject between 90-120 mins beforehand and eat between 75 and 90 mins before so that I have insulin working and food digesting. Some people find that they need very little insulin indeed prior to exercise, I'm a little different in that respect, but you need to find out what happens to you at a time when you can experiment - not on your commute.

What insulin are you on? I know some people have found that switching to different insulins can help regain hypo awareness, so that might be something to discuss with your team.
 
I'm right with you

Hi,

I'm so sorry to hear about your sugar probs. I don't have any advice about what to do really but I want to say that you are not alone. I have the same or kind of similar problems particular with the lows.

Only thing that may help at least sometimes is to test ridiculous often there are situations there I have to test as often as 2/h :( Only thing you'll have to do is to get your DSN to understand your problem to get a bigger script for test stripes and convince her that you can handle a hypo on your own (even if not always 🙄) without assistants from sone1 else if you have a driver licence I should add.

A lot of exercise increasing your stress hormones (adrenalin) which increasing your bloodsugar. At times when you've been diabetic for a longer time it takes longer time for your body to start pumping out stress hormones this may be a first or an early stage of damage nerves.

I hope this have given you some kind of answer.
 
Hi Trev, two Hypos a day means you are injecting too much insulin, simple answer dont inject as much as you have been.
 
Welcome to the forum. Have you checked your background insulin to see if that is causing the hypos. It is also good to carbohydrate count if you are not already doing this. You've not mentioned any other problems but I found that gastroparesis caused/causes very erratic blood sugars. Is there any possibility that you have gastroparesis?
 
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