What have you bought when shopping with low blood sugars?

[O_DP_T1]

Oh man many many items, usually expensive trainers or clothes if I'm going low and I see something I like on-line or whist out and about it's not unknown for these items to turn up at home.

Once ordered the same trainers in 3 different colours online total bill about £450!!!!! I really really wanted to keep them but 2 had to be returned!!!!!

 

[O_DP_T1]

One lives and learns! For the record I am over 40 but behave like a child when hypo-shopping!

Exactly this ^^^^ I almost bought a car for a project once off eBay whist very very low!!!!

 

[Fairygodmother]

I love this thread! I had my first hypo yesterday (just diagnosed) & ate the whole packet of jaffa cakes that hubby was saving. I think he got off lightly..... (prepares to blame impulse shoe purchases on being hypo)

It's sooooo hard to stop eating when everything tells you to grab what's there and put it in your mouth. It becomes a primitive urge. Hence my big shop. Remembering what you've had for the correction dose can be tough too. Do you like Jaffa cakes?

 

[Fairygodmother]

Oh man many many items, usually expensive trainers or clothes if I'm going low and I see something I like on-line or whist out and about it's not unknown for these items to turn up at home.

Once ordered the same trainers in 3 different colours online total bill about £450!!!!! I really really wanted to keep them but 2 had to be returned!!!!!

OMG, that's a BIG bill! Thank goodness you could return a couple of pairs. Just think, if it'd been food you might not have been so lucky, especially if there were bite marks. Was it hard to choose which colour to keep?

 

[Fairygodmother]

Exactly this ^^^^ I almost bought a car for a project once off eBay whist very very low!!!!

'almost', phew!

 

[Diakat]

It's sooooo hard to stop eating when everything tells you to grab what's there and put it in your mouth. It becomes a primitive urge. Hence my big shop. Remembering what you've had for the correction dose can be tough too. Do you like Jaffa cakes?

Probably not as much now as before the whole pack.

 

[Circuspony]

It's sooooo hard to stop eating when everything tells you to grab what's there and put it in your mouth. It becomes a primitive urge. Hence my big shop. Remembering what you've had for the correction dose can be tough too. Do you like Jaffa cakes?

Luckily yes! Although I had just one after dinner yesterday and it didn't taste so good as panic eating the whole packet. Husband is now hiding boxes of chocolates from me....

 

[karen8967]

i love reading this thread come on it every day for a good laugh thanks for starting it fairygodmother you dont need your wand to spread the magic of laughter x

 

[O_DP_T1]

OMG, that's a BIG bill! Thank goodness you could return a couple of pairs. Just think, if it'd been food you might not have been so lucky, especially if there were bite marks. Was it hard to choose which colour to keep?

I managed to choose the colour once I 'sobered up from the hypo'. Would love to have kept them all so yes was kinda of a tough choice!!!!!

 

[karen8967]

i have just got home from work b4 was hypo at 3.4 had some lucozade and cooked me dinner went in me bag to get insulin pen out to bolus for dinner was struggling to put pentip on only realised i was trying to screw it on to my tube of gluco gel im certifiable x

 

[O_DP_T1]

I hate it when you get those lows that never ever ever want to go up no matter what you try!!!! I had one a few weeks back 3.2 and dropping took me about 3 hours to raise it to about 5.5 must have consumed about 60g+ or sugary carbs in that time.

 

[Fairygodmother]

i love reading this thread come on it every day for a good laugh thanks for starting it fairygodmother you dont need your wand to spread the magic of laughter x

Thank you Karen8967, that's so good to hear! I find that T1 gives us so much to think about that's serious, embarrassing, etc. that sometimes the only way to deal with it is to laugh at myself

 

[Fairygodmother]

Luckily yes! Although I had just one after dinner yesterday and it didn't taste so good as panic eating the whole packet. Husband is now hiding boxes of chocolates from me....

Ha ha, at least he's on your side - or is it that he fears he won't get a look in?

 

[Fairygodmother]

i have just got home from work b4 was hypo at 3.4 had some lucozade and cooked me dinner went in me bag to get insulin pen out to bolus for dinner was struggling to put pentip on only realised i was trying to screw it on to my tube of gluco gel im certifiable x

Sorry, refuse to certify you - you're just one of us. Join the crew - the only certificate you'll get is as a member of the Hypo-Brigade.

 

[Fairygodmother]

I hate it when you get those lows that never ever ever want to go up no matter what you try!!!! I had one a few weeks back 3.2 and dropping took me about 3 hours to raise it to about 5.5 must have consumed about 60g+ or sugary carbs in that time.

I agree, they can be frightening and frustrating. I've had only one of those since the Dafne course, I think it was linked to extra exercise the day before, and luckily it happened when I was at home.

 

[karen8967]

Thank you Karen8967, that's so good to hear! I find that T1 gives us so much to think about that's serious, embarrassing, etc. that sometimes the only way to deal with it is to laugh at myself

Amen to that (and no im not a religous nut ) thats a thread for another day

 

[Kristin251]

Well today's story isn't about shopping. For some reason I'm going low all the time. Weather changes, no morning caffeine, just decaf nespresso and changed bf

I was trying to call my husband....ON MY CALCULATOR!!!! Up to the ear and all. If that wasn't enough I called my mom instead of him!! It wasn't even a serious hypo. 67.

Off to shop now that I have the excuse!!

 

[Fairygodmother]

Well today's story isn't about shopping. For some reason I'm going low all the time. Weather changes, no morning caffeine, just decaf nespresso and changed bf

I was trying to call my husband....ON MY CALCULATOR!!!! Up to the ear and all. If that wasn't enough I called my mom instead of him!! It wasn't even a serious hypo. 67.

Off to shop now that I have the excuse!!

Hope the rest of the day was right-minded! Love the calculator as a phone

 

[karen8967]

I think we are all just bonkers haha

 

[maria030660]

CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!! And donuts ...basically all stuff which you shouldnt eat when a type 1 diabetic