Treating a hypo with carbohydrates

[petdell]

If my body was that slow to react to lucozade ,sugar . I would need speed dial ,to paramedics. My bloods start rising, within ten minutes. We're all different , and I can self treat hypos, at 2 mmol

 

[Colin of Kent]

In a way you and your nurse are both correct. A reading of 2.1 does sound really really low however. I would expect you to be sparked out on the floor with this reading. It wasn’t 3.1?

I've had a reading of 1.6 before, and was still conscious and able to treat myself okay. I frequently have readings in the 2's.

 

[grannyx3]

Everyone is unique and therefore their body reacts differently. I have no hypo awareness and often my bm drops to dangerously low levels. I am able to treat them myself and have even given myself a glucagon injection when my reading had fallen to 0.9! I drink lucozade followed by a bread and jam sandwich. Some of you might gasp with shock at that, but it works for me. I have had T1 diabetes for 52 years and have no complications other than Coeliac Disease. I go once a year to doctors for a diabetes review and take little notice of what the nurse tells me because most of what she says is totally irrelevant to diabetes and the diabetic patient! I dont know everything but I dont like being told how to suck eggs .........

 

[ickihun]

I've had a 1.9 and treated myself. Felt like a spaceman with a very fast heartbeat thou.

 

[22nw22]

I've had a 1.9 and treated myself. Felt like a spaceman with a very fast heartbeat thou.

Same. But nothing happened I felt fine.