No formal diagnosis of yet, just borderling readings but ate as normal tonight and now dropped to 3.8 plus my vision feels just a bit strange and I feel a bit spaced out. Any thoughts?
3.8 and feeling a bit weird
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Hi Lucozade,
A reading of 3.8 is hypo territory and would explain how you felt. It is too late for advice now but hope you are feeling alright. Please let us know.
Catherine.
A reading of 3.8 is hypo territory and would explain how you felt. It is too late for advice now but hope you are feeling alright. Please let us know.
Catherine.
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Lucozade,
As Catherine has said, 3.8 is hypo territory, and best avoided , therefore you should eat something to bring your levels back up again. 'Four is the floor' is a saying to remind people with diabetes that anything below this level is considered to be a hypo. Hope all goes well at your next appointment!
Nigel
As Catherine has said, 3.8 is hypo territory, and best avoided , therefore you should eat something to bring your levels back up again. 'Four is the floor' is a saying to remind people with diabetes that anything below this level is considered to be a hypo. Hope all goes well at your next appointment!
Nigel
I say when this happens again i'd eat something sugary or have a swig of lucozade, then a slice of toast to back it up. When it happens to me I eat a very carbed biscuit, this normally does the trick. I normally get a hypo warning at 3.8 but I have had no warnings and got 2.9 
Hi again
Thanks for all the responses. I had some Lucozade and that got me back up to 5. something then I went to sleep. But I am confused as to why I would go to 3.8 in the first place, as I had been eating snacks all evening, in fact my last food and drink was 11pm-ish, including a mini chocolate cheesecake, several bags of crisps, half a small bottle of lucozade and a piece of swiss roll and I was around 7.4 when I went to bed at midnight, only to start feeling like **** a short while later. How could this happen?
That was all **** food I know, but after tea I was still starving and just could not stop eating and was ravenously craving sweet things for some reason.
Also, I checked the metre readings several times and the metre was properly calibrated.
Thanks for all the responses. I had some Lucozade and that got me back up to 5. something then I went to sleep. But I am confused as to why I would go to 3.8 in the first place, as I had been eating snacks all evening, in fact my last food and drink was 11pm-ish, including a mini chocolate cheesecake, several bags of crisps, half a small bottle of lucozade and a piece of swiss roll and I was around 7.4 when I went to bed at midnight, only to start feeling like **** a short while later. How could this happen?
That was all **** food I know, but after tea I was still starving and just could not stop eating and was ravenously craving sweet things for some reason.
Also, I checked the metre readings several times and the metre was properly calibrated.
