3 hypos in two days.

[Bazzza]

I've had 3 hypos in two days. Yesterday, on my way home from the shop on my bike, I got home and was 2.4mmol/L this morning at the Diabetes day center I was 2.8mmol/L and just this evening again I dropped to 2.8mmol/L. I find it weird because I've not altered the amount of insulin or ate less food in any of the cases. I took my BS before Dinner it was 6.1mmol/L and so I took my 12units of insulin and had my dinner. It was small fillet of fish (I removed the batter) Small portion of baked beans and two potato waffles. I also had about 50 odd grams of blueberries afterwards and....four sugar free biscuits. So that's quite a lot of carbs but then again not really anymore than I'd normally have as I'm trying to gain weight for the time being. So I was wondering what might be the cause of these...any ideas?

 

[Emmotha]

Hello.
If you have one hypo it can create a "bouncing ball" effect where ur sugars are spiking and dipping with corrections.

How long have u been diabetic?

 

[Bazzza]

8 years now, but I've only recently started to take charge of it and get it under control the last few weeks. I'll check out that bouncing ball effect, Thanks

 

[Emmotha]

Ah. Yep nurse on DAFNE told me about the bouncing ball. I always over correct mine with fast acting. So when u were showing 6.1 before dinner, it may have been from fast acting carbs from an earlier correction which then burned out too fast.
Hope that made sense, I'm not very good at explaining things :/

 

[Alasdair]

You say dinner was quite a lot of carbs but not how many - do you carb count and use ratios?

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[noblehead]

Try doing some basal testing first and work from there, if it isn't set at the right dose you just end up chasing your tail:


http://www.salforddiabetescare.co.uk/index2.php?nav_id=1007

 

[donnellysdogs]

Cycling is exercise and can lower levels as can just walking...