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Dextro or Glucotabs?

Gary Thom said:
Jelly babies for me. I do sometimes worry that I may be subconsciously bringing on hypos due to my love of jelly babies!
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Even when hypo you can still be selective which colour/flavour you eat first, I always go for the black & red ones :D
 
Logie said:
Dextrose everytime... Dislike Lucozade and know I'd not have the willpower to not stop @ 3/4 jelly beans! Did buy a small tube of Glucotabs to try as Dextrose can be easily broken but when I had a hypo I couldn't take the lid off... so resorted to drinking a small full fat coke
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True, the Glucotab lid is too difficult. I tried to break the seal with a knife last time, how daft is that? All fingers and thumbs, desperation, hypo and knife? Not a good combination! Glucotab, TAKE NOTE! :)
 
GlucoTabs are easier to swallow. Dextro energy are rectangular and the shape feels unnatural in your mouth, which is why I resisted being force fed them. Plus the GlucoTab packaging doesn't let them get mashed to powder if they're in your bag.
 
Blackcurrant Dextro for me but they do remind me of Refreshers and as a kid I loved Refreshers so have to make sure I don't over treat.
 
For speed I prefer Lucozde, but of the two options it's Dextro tablets for me. Blackcurrant or tropical preferable :)

I buy a box on Amazon and that lasts me ages. I prefer them to Glucotabs as they're cheaper, squarer so fit neatly in bags, etc, have nicer flavours and are more widely available.

I also sometimes have jelly babies or he little packs of children's sweets (3 for £1) or Haribos or fudge - whatever I have around. Typically, when there's something yummy but very sweet in the house (like posh fudge) I think to myself ""Ooh, I'll have that if I go low" - but then forget in the heat of the hypo! Duh!
 
Aye, jelly babies for me too! A jelly baby takes me up 1mmol, so easy to correct and they taste rather nice too.
 
Glucotabs for a fast correction, jelly belly beans (2g each) for a micro correction when I can see a low coming.
 
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