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How do you hypo on a ketogenic diet?
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<blockquote data-quote="smidge" data-source="post: 665904" data-attributes="member: 29301"><p>[USER=113749]@LucySW[/USER] I tend to stay out of ketosis most of the time, but am definitely low-carb, rarely eating the big 5 carbs. I get the full range of hypo symptoms but can function pretty well down to about 2.2 - although it's pretty unpleasant and I'd rather correct once I've fallen below 3.5ish. What I have noticed and commented on many times is that my BG does not fall quickly it can fall into the mid 3s and hang around for hours, so I know I don't actually need to rush to correct. I have had quite a lot of bad comments from some people on this forum when I've said this though. However, my use of the Libre for the past week has shown me beyond any doubt that my BG generally moves very slowly, drifting up and down rather than rising and plummeting - I have hardly seen anything other than the horizontal arrow on the Libre reader. (TBH I've just scanned and I have a very strong vertical up arrow at the moment, presumably due to the mountain of mashed swede I ate an hour ago and the not-so-rapid-acting Apidra failing to keep up.) Anyway, mountains of mashed swede aside, I managed to go 3 days without seeing anything but a horizontal arrow. The only times I have seen them was after bread, after ryvita and after a tiny chocolate used to correct a hypo the other day - oh, and now the swede! So, I am coming more and more to the conclusion that low-carb means my BG rises and falls far more slowly.</p><p></p><p>Smidge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smidge, post: 665904, member: 29301"] [USER=113749]@LucySW[/USER] I tend to stay out of ketosis most of the time, but am definitely low-carb, rarely eating the big 5 carbs. I get the full range of hypo symptoms but can function pretty well down to about 2.2 - although it's pretty unpleasant and I'd rather correct once I've fallen below 3.5ish. What I have noticed and commented on many times is that my BG does not fall quickly it can fall into the mid 3s and hang around for hours, so I know I don't actually need to rush to correct. I have had quite a lot of bad comments from some people on this forum when I've said this though. However, my use of the Libre for the past week has shown me beyond any doubt that my BG generally moves very slowly, drifting up and down rather than rising and plummeting - I have hardly seen anything other than the horizontal arrow on the Libre reader. (TBH I've just scanned and I have a very strong vertical up arrow at the moment, presumably due to the mountain of mashed swede I ate an hour ago and the not-so-rapid-acting Apidra failing to keep up.) Anyway, mountains of mashed swede aside, I managed to go 3 days without seeing anything but a horizontal arrow. The only times I have seen them was after bread, after ryvita and after a tiny chocolate used to correct a hypo the other day - oh, and now the swede! So, I am coming more and more to the conclusion that low-carb means my BG rises and falls far more slowly. Smidge [/QUOTE]
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