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- Type of diabetes
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- Insulin
I honestly thought I was going to die this morning, so I'm very happy to be sitting here telling you all about this now. I have excellent control, and a keen sense of hypo awareness (I can feel it around 4 most of the time) but even though I picked up this hypo early, it went wrong anyway
This morning I had my usual breakfast, usual bolus, and once my IOB was down to virtually nothing I started to get ready for the day. When I was brushing my teeth, my head felt funny (and my cgm said 5.8, a slight decrease from earlier), so I had a couple of mouthfuls of juice. The next cgm reading was 5.0, and I still felt funny, so I did a fingerprick and got a 3.7. Had a juice, and sat down to wait until I recovered before I finished getting dressed.
8 minutes later, the cgm said I was 4.3, and I felt the need to do another fingerprick - 2.6 That's a massive decrease, considering the short amount of time, having no IOB, and having drunk about 20g of sugar. I had 3 more juices immediately (yep, that's about 60g sugar, but I didn't want to get any lower) and yelled for help. My dad sat with me in case I needed glucagon, and I reviewed the procedure with him while I waited for the next fingerprick. Thankfully, my blood sugar went back up again! The thing is, I had about 70g total carbs, and my blood sugar peaked at only 7.1 :/
I don't know what caused this - I ate the same breakfast I do every day, same doses, no other medication changes, no illness, and hadn't done any physical activity yet apart from the incidental exercise of getting dressed. I lowered my basal for the time period in which I had the hypo, and the few hours before, and I will be running my blood sugars a bit higher today in case anything else happens.
Thanks for reading, I just really needed to get this off my chest.
This morning I had my usual breakfast, usual bolus, and once my IOB was down to virtually nothing I started to get ready for the day. When I was brushing my teeth, my head felt funny (and my cgm said 5.8, a slight decrease from earlier), so I had a couple of mouthfuls of juice. The next cgm reading was 5.0, and I still felt funny, so I did a fingerprick and got a 3.7. Had a juice, and sat down to wait until I recovered before I finished getting dressed.
8 minutes later, the cgm said I was 4.3, and I felt the need to do another fingerprick - 2.6 That's a massive decrease, considering the short amount of time, having no IOB, and having drunk about 20g of sugar. I had 3 more juices immediately (yep, that's about 60g sugar, but I didn't want to get any lower) and yelled for help. My dad sat with me in case I needed glucagon, and I reviewed the procedure with him while I waited for the next fingerprick. Thankfully, my blood sugar went back up again! The thing is, I had about 70g total carbs, and my blood sugar peaked at only 7.1 :/
I don't know what caused this - I ate the same breakfast I do every day, same doses, no other medication changes, no illness, and hadn't done any physical activity yet apart from the incidental exercise of getting dressed. I lowered my basal for the time period in which I had the hypo, and the few hours before, and I will be running my blood sugars a bit higher today in case anything else happens.
Thanks for reading, I just really needed to get this off my chest.