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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1416217" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>That's an easy mistake to make, I've done it plenty of times.</p><p></p><p>You'd be surprised by how little sugar is needed to sort out a modest hypo, usually only about ten grams, that's just two jelly babies, 50 mls of ordinary lucozade, 100 mls of pink lucozade. </p><p></p><p>If you can get yourself on a DAFNE course, their recommendation is to take ten grams, wait ten minutes (it takes time for the sugar to ger from your stomach to your blood), test again, and if it's not sorted, have another ten grams. </p><p></p><p>It's easy to panic in a hypo, thinking how hard is this dropping, will it keep dropping, but next time you have a mild hypo, try experimenting with just ten grams, sit back and wait.</p><p></p><p>I used to just eat till I felt better, but because of that time which it takes sugar to get into the blood, I ended up overeating and too high, which sounds like what you've been doing. </p><p></p><p>I still have occasions where, based on symptoms, circumstances, testing, the amount of insulin on board and past experience, I reckon it's dropping very hard and is likely to continue, so the ten grams rule will go out the window, so it's definitely not an absolute rule, but works most of the time for your common or garden type of hypo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1416217, member: 374531"] That's an easy mistake to make, I've done it plenty of times. You'd be surprised by how little sugar is needed to sort out a modest hypo, usually only about ten grams, that's just two jelly babies, 50 mls of ordinary lucozade, 100 mls of pink lucozade. If you can get yourself on a DAFNE course, their recommendation is to take ten grams, wait ten minutes (it takes time for the sugar to ger from your stomach to your blood), test again, and if it's not sorted, have another ten grams. It's easy to panic in a hypo, thinking how hard is this dropping, will it keep dropping, but next time you have a mild hypo, try experimenting with just ten grams, sit back and wait. I used to just eat till I felt better, but because of that time which it takes sugar to get into the blood, I ended up overeating and too high, which sounds like what you've been doing. I still have occasions where, based on symptoms, circumstances, testing, the amount of insulin on board and past experience, I reckon it's dropping very hard and is likely to continue, so the ten grams rule will go out the window, so it's definitely not an absolute rule, but works most of the time for your common or garden type of hypo. [/QUOTE]
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