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Low blood sugar.

Al_P

Al_P

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Location
Spain
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Insulin
I live in Spain and I've been asked to check my BG 6 times per day with one of those being a pin prick. I'm using an Abbott Freestyle Libre for all the other checks. I bought the kit as I wanted to be constantly aware of what's going on. I have Type 2 so I've been told that's not so serious.
I've just done my last check of the day using the Libre monitor and it says I have low blood sugar, 70 mg/dL. Should I be concerned? I feel OK
 
Al_P said:
I live in Spain and I've been asked to check my BG 6 times per day with one of those being a pin prick. I'm using an Abbott Freestyle Libre for all the other checks. I bought the kit as I wanted to be constantly aware of what's going on. I have Type 2 so I've been told that's not so serious.
I've just done my last check of the day using the Libre monitor and it says I have low blood sugar, 70 mg/dL. Should I be concerned? I feel OK
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are you taking any medication for your diabetes or for anything else ?
 
Al_P said:
I'm on insulin
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I take 20 units every morning before breakfast.. I'm on a new type of insulin, Toujeo and am half way through my second pen. This is supposed to be slow acting so my care nurse wants me to monitor the affects, hence the 6 checks per day. Thank you both for your responses. I've just been stuffing myself with chocolate and my blood sugar is now up to 109 and slowly rising. Yummy, i love chocolate. :)
 
What kind of insulin are you taking? If you're taking insulin you should have been given guidence on how to spot and treat hypos. 70 is probably the bottom line, anything under 4mmol/l is hypo and 70mg/dL equates to 3.9mmol/l.

Have you confirmed the libre read with a finger prick? If so, have a small amount of fast acting sugar.

Here's some info on hypos - http://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-a-hypo.html
 
and keep measuring untill your number has raised again , I think you should phone some emergency-line if you have a number and get their advice on it too right now.
 
I understand chocolate is not very good to treat hypo's with, unfortunately. I, too, love chocolate and would love to have chocolate to treat hypo's, ie an excuse to enjoy chocolate without feeling guilty ;) However, because chocolate contains fat, it will be processed more slowly in the gut, hence not the best for treating hypo's.

Best to use is a glucose solution, ie sugar in water, squash or cup of tea etc. Jelly Babies are very useful too, particularly as they have a stable amount of glucose in each. I think around 10gms glucose each Jelly Baby so 5 of them is 50 gms. They'll act more quickly than chocolate - but just don't taste quite the same. They taste good to me, though. I don't go hypo these days as off meds, I have to add ;)
 
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