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Sudden drops in BG

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AJLang

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Has anyone got any thoughts please as to why my BGs should suddenly keep dropping unexpectedly/I'm needing more carbs.. This has been happening for several days with no pattern. Fortunately I'm catching most of them before I go hypo - a condition of keeping my pump is one or fewer hypos a day so im very vigilant with testing. An example is going from 7 to 4 in an hour or down to 3.4 just now. I've reduced my Basals etc but these drops are happening at different times and I'm not doing much physically and have a lot of headaches
 
the weather is turning colder, it has an effect on many peoples levels. Have you altered the way you eat or your routine?

I hope you get it sorted quickly.
 
Thanks Caroline. No the only real change has been eating more than usual to stop my BGs dropping. Apart from the last two days I've been keeping the house at its normal temperature - but the BG drops started a week ago - there's no pattern at all
 
not sure what else to suggest apart from maybe keep a record of your daily activity to work out what you are doing when things start to drop?
 
Thank you Caroline 🙂
 
Hormones?

I find myself blaming more and more odd BGs on hormones, having a son at the beginning of adolescence!
 
I wondered about hormones but I haven't had a period for over three years (doctors aren't bothered about that ) and as far as I know I'm not going through the menopause. But apart from that hormones would make sense
 
Going through the same thing at the moment its getting very hard to control my levels.

Yesterday at 14:19 I was 9.2 then at 15:32 dropped to 3.6 (what a drop in 1 hour 13 mins), started the shakiness so knew something was wrong.

I don't know what's causing it as can eat the same food one day and go high the next day would be hypo. :confused:
 
I call it the sputtering engine syndrome. Your pancreas suddenly decides to release more insulin just because it feels like it... Then goes on strike again when you least expect it.
 
This is what doesn't make sense for me because I don't think that there is any way at all that my pancreas can be working after 43 years of Type 1 diabetes. I have not moved off the settee this morning yet it dropped from 9.5 to 7.2 in 1.5 hours and this was 6 hours after my last bolus (it was 9.5 after I ate too much for a hypo). I've just spoken to the DSN at the hospital and she wants me to see her Friday morning.
 
hope all goes well Friday, and you get some answers.
 
Hope all goes well on Friday and they sort you out, hope we both get answers as I see a new DN as well on Friday.
 
Thank you Caroline and Pav. Pav I hope that you get answers on Friday as well
 
Amanda I am convinced my pancreas still has moments of going insane and chucking out some random insulin! How many years have I been type one - er (racks brains) 36 years. Also hormones mess things up too - I know you have good reason not to suspect it's that but we never really know do we? And of course the cold weather............ah well it could be any, all or none of those things but what a darn nuisance it is when it keeps happening. I feel for you and hope you get some good help on Friday.x
 
Thanks Karen. I'm getting worried about it but hopefully it will be something simple that can get sorted out.
 
I hope you get some help with it on Friday.
 
Thanks Newbs? Another hypo this morning an hour after waking up at 5:(
 
Sorry AJ that you've had another bad morning, noticed in your new thread you were having another hypo. I can't win either last night I went the other way before tea at 6 pm I was 9.1 then midnight 12.2 must of been a lot higher earlier in the evening and back to 6.0 this morning.

Has your sleep pattern or any thing else changed recently? My sleep pattern is going all over the place but BS levels don't even match any change in sleep, just totally random of going low or high even eating the same food/s.
 
Pav I'm sorry to hear that you're having these problems and that you're having problems with sleeping. My BGs are only going up if I have less insulin than I would normally otherwise they are having bursts of sugars going down. My sleep pattern is normal but I am exhausted, much more than normal, and keep having horrible headaches.
 
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