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<blockquote data-quote="LooperCat" data-source="post: 1798608" data-attributes="member: 468055"><p>I had my very first hypo in the car on the way home from hospital in Hemel Hempstead when my dad was taking me back to that family home in Somerset (I was studying for my PhD at the time in Hertfordshire when I was diagnosed) for a few days. It was terrifying - for both of us. I can’t remember the numbers, but I seriously panicked and shoved a bag of jelly babies and a ham sandwich down my throat as soon as we could pull off the M4 to get something. I was so unprepared, I had no idea I was supposed to carry glucose on me. I’ve had a few humdingers in my time, but only ever needed paramedics the once, and that was this January, when in a rush I misread the dry and cooked weights on a pack of pasta, and injected double the amount of Novorapid I should have. That rattled me enough to basically stop eating carbs, fast ones at least. So after 20 years of highs and lows, with high carb meals and big insulin doses, I’ve found that for me at least, small amounts of slow carbs with correspondingly tiny insulin doses mean way less hypos, and if I do get them, they come in much more slowly and can be easily headed off at the pass with a dextrose tab or two. Rarely (once in four months, maybe) below 3.5, which according to my DAFNE stuff, hardly counts, despite the “four is the floor” mantra.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LooperCat, post: 1798608, member: 468055"] I had my very first hypo in the car on the way home from hospital in Hemel Hempstead when my dad was taking me back to that family home in Somerset (I was studying for my PhD at the time in Hertfordshire when I was diagnosed) for a few days. It was terrifying - for both of us. I can’t remember the numbers, but I seriously panicked and shoved a bag of jelly babies and a ham sandwich down my throat as soon as we could pull off the M4 to get something. I was so unprepared, I had no idea I was supposed to carry glucose on me. I’ve had a few humdingers in my time, but only ever needed paramedics the once, and that was this January, when in a rush I misread the dry and cooked weights on a pack of pasta, and injected double the amount of Novorapid I should have. That rattled me enough to basically stop eating carbs, fast ones at least. So after 20 years of highs and lows, with high carb meals and big insulin doses, I’ve found that for me at least, small amounts of slow carbs with correspondingly tiny insulin doses mean way less hypos, and if I do get them, they come in much more slowly and can be easily headed off at the pass with a dextrose tab or two. Rarely (once in four months, maybe) below 3.5, which according to my DAFNE stuff, hardly counts, despite the “four is the floor” mantra. [/QUOTE]
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