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Roller coaster ride today not nice.

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Things started going wrong at 3 am with a hypo and the libre just saying low, main meter was showing hypo as well but not that low, corrected that ok waking up to a 4.7. After breakfast jumped to 13.5 rapidly then by lunch time wham another hypo showing on the libre, and just above hypo on main meter. Corrected again as if hypo to a reasonable 8.9, decided to call in the pub on the way home for a meal by the time we got around to ordering a meal main meter was showing above hypo and the libre was just on 3.9. Had the meal and levels were struggling to rise got there in the end with the help of sweets and got levels to another respectful 8.1 pottered around and came home after the obligatory long wait between hypo's good excuse to have catch ups with friends.

After pottering around the house and doing some cleaning checked again on the libre and very close to hypo checked with the main meter and reading around 2.0 above the libre reading. As I have the pack of sample test strips for the insulinx decided to run a comparison between this and the libre and the readings were within 0.1.

The main meter a glucomen only reported one hypo during the day, but showed levels to be fairly low above hypo. I treated all events reporting hypos as such. Now with the sample reading on the insulinx and the libre being only 0.1 out and the glucomen meter about 2.0 above the others left wondering which is right.

Have noticed when comparing the glucomen gm with previous meters seam to remember that it did read higher than other meters. With my levels being very high and now being back on gliclazide and have been getting false hypo warnings, its def been a roller coaster ride today.

To cap it all some ware during the day I lost the top of the lancing device that was in the bag with the libre, good job have plenty of spare lancing devices around.
 
The libre tends to show lower than the meters for me too.

It's normal to go higher after a low.

But yeah, you must be feeling rotten with such yoyoing
 
With two meters being so close, I'd trust them. Why so much testing, were you not feeling the hypo? I sometimes don't either if I've come down slowly but I trust my Next USB not to lie to me. I do occasionally test with the Insulinx if I get an unexpected reading, but they usually come in pretty close. I'd say your having problems with the glic and need to see your GP soonest to sort out an alternative. I'm also still convinced you're T1.5 not a T2.
 
AlisonM said:
With two meters being so close, I'd trust them. Why so much testing, were you not feeling the hypo? I sometimes don't either if I've come down slowly but I trust my Next USB not to lie to me. I do occasionally test with the Insulinx if I get an unexpected reading, but they usually come in pretty close. I'd say your having problems with the glic and need to see your GP soonest to sort out an alternative. I'm also still convinced you're T1.5 not a T2.
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Knew something was not right since waking in the early hours, not uncommon for me to do that, but feeling different. One of those things and I know how I react with gliclazide when I start like this and having been running in the very high teens as the previous meds had stopped working and coming back to more normal levels was getting false hypos. With me driving as well was checking to make sure my levels were high enough to drive and to get where I was going. False hypo symptoms can be a pain in the back side, but today looks like they were genuine ones.

I am in the vicious circle docs know less than me about diabetes the one that referred me to the hospital diabetes team has left, then the hospital refused to accept me, now just getting the usual very basic care or lack of it as can't get them to see I am not following a steady response to meds. I have been having to drive the docs on every appointment and brasses one off when one actually listens and then moves on to another practice, the joys of having locums and very few regular docs.
 
One good thing about the libre plots the roller coaster ride well.

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pav said:
One good thing about the libre plots the roller coaster ride well.

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Pav - Hopefully the data will be valuable to you, and illustrate what you have been saying all along. Everyone deals with the Libre data differently, but do do a data download most mornings, to ensure I retain full Libre data integrity. It could be useful, once you have enough data, to take note of tracks to hypo - how quickly it happens and how you progress through recovery.
 
I'd be tempted to download and make detailed timed notes too, including what hypo treatment you took at what time, and even when you felt the hypo symptoms. It's what I did to get the consultant to prick up his ears and loan me a CGM which showed just how erratic my blood sugar was, and how dangerously low I was going overnight, I have no hypo awareness at night at all it seems, which freaked him out when he said so you treated that 1.2 did you? Erm what 1.2? Nope that was my liver not the jelly babies. I don't like to say this but if your GP has you pegged as anxious or overly fixated on blood sugar control, they can be difficult to persuade and cold hard data is much harder for them to ignore. That might not be the case at all, but my consultant clearly had me in the PITA file, and thought I was overly controlling. I am controlling, no argument there, but I am also in possession of a body that doesn't behave as they'd expect, the two are not mutually exclusive. Good luck, hope you don't have such a roller coaster ride today 🙂
 
A more restful night last night woke to a 5.6, looked at the daily graph and instead of going hypo my levels spiked to around 10.0 at around the same time as I was hypo the night before.

You could be right kookyCat, after letting things slide when I was at my previous doctors, as never had any help from the doctors and then paid the price for being lax with the nerve damage. I want my levels within what I am happy with and not what the docs think is ok in running in the teens is acceptable to them. :(
 
I have no advice or even any knowledge about what you are discussing but I just wanted to say hope you are feeling better today after a restful night.
 
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