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<blockquote data-quote="Jeannie87" data-source="post: 815024" data-attributes="member: 155592"><p>When I attended the carb counting course the year before last I was astounded to find out how dealing with hypos has changed. And now I do exactly what I was taught on the course, which was so new to me, you cannot imagine. We have been told when we get a blood test result of 4 or below, to immediately treat this with 15g of carbs, usually a 150 ml tiny can of "real" coca cola, or three glucose tablets. Never chocolate! Lucuzade which I used to use was definitely not approved of. And this new method works brilliantly for me anyway. For example today I did a blood test mid morning and it was 4.5, I had suspected it was a bit low. So I drank the small coke, waited 15 mins as instructed, tested again (as instructed) and it had risen to 5.9 - unlike in the days when I used to use lucozade full bottles and chocolate biscuits to bring it back up ......and then fight a battle the rest of the day with very high blood sugars. And then at lunch time, it was 7.5 so it had risen nicely from the 4 but not gone up so high as it would have done in the past. Sorry I interrupted this thread, just wanted to add what has helped me so much these past two years - but like I keep saying every diabetic is different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeannie87, post: 815024, member: 155592"] When I attended the carb counting course the year before last I was astounded to find out how dealing with hypos has changed. And now I do exactly what I was taught on the course, which was so new to me, you cannot imagine. We have been told when we get a blood test result of 4 or below, to immediately treat this with 15g of carbs, usually a 150 ml tiny can of "real" coca cola, or three glucose tablets. Never chocolate! Lucuzade which I used to use was definitely not approved of. And this new method works brilliantly for me anyway. For example today I did a blood test mid morning and it was 4.5, I had suspected it was a bit low. So I drank the small coke, waited 15 mins as instructed, tested again (as instructed) and it had risen to 5.9 - unlike in the days when I used to use lucozade full bottles and chocolate biscuits to bring it back up ......and then fight a battle the rest of the day with very high blood sugars. And then at lunch time, it was 7.5 so it had risen nicely from the 4 but not gone up so high as it would have done in the past. Sorry I interrupted this thread, just wanted to add what has helped me so much these past two years - but like I keep saying every diabetic is different. [/QUOTE]
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