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Thanks. My thought process was similar to that. However you say "When fasting, the body steadily releases glucose into the blood to our cells supplied with energy." but if I'm not eating anything at all for days where is that glucose coming from? I assume that when it says "fasting" it means normal everyday fasting like when you go to sleep.
Last night I decided to do half my normal dose of basal and I kept getting low blood sugar throughout the night. Luckily I had some granulated sugar, which I mixed into water and drank.
To answer your question, I have no money for food.
That's just .... not good. I'm so sorry. I haven't lived in the UK for a while (this century) so I'm not sure what the current welfare provisions are, but not having enough money for food is bad for anyone and healthwise as a T1 diabetic it's even worse. (I guess you'd get food if you ended up in hospital but that seems a little drastic. )
Sounds like you need to reduce your basal dose even more? Can you get help from friends/family/ soup kitchens????? (Do charities do soup kitchens any more?)
Hoping you're OK. Hoping you've got plenty of grtanulated sugar left so that you don't go hypo...
Good luck.
Edited to add. You've probably already looked at this but this looks like a relevant thread from a year ago
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/no-food-and-jobseekers.109012/
Food banks should be able to give you some emergency food?
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