Felt hypo but tested my blood and I wasn't hypo?

[Anonymous]

My bloods have been very good recently I have finally got them back in control Today I walked to the shops which is about a 25 miniute walk and when I got there I felt like I was going hypo and then I was walking back home and I felt hypo I always carry stuff with me incase but I left it and didn't have anything and when I got home and my blood was 14.0 but I am not sure if it was because I walked I was also carrying abit of shopping as well so maybe it just took it out of me abit. Also today when I was at home I felt hypo again and tested and it was 9.4. But later on about 5.00pm I was 3.7 and I knew I was about 3.0 before I tested but I felt the same as I did when I was 14.0 and 9.4 earlier that day. I did the Dafne course a few weeks ago so I am very pleased with how things have been going since but today has just been abit strange

 

[setto]

Hey,

I know exactly why this is happening. They say that when you do exercise you will go low, but what really happens is you go quite high first then later on you are low. Its all really confusing but thats your problem :mrgreen:

 

[timo2]

hello Jodie,
If your control has recently become tighter then you may well get a "hypo" feeling while
at normal figures. This should improve after a few weeks spent at better sugar levels.

You may also find, as I do, that you sometimes have a reaction to rapid fluctuations
in blood sugar. Your sugars may not actually be dropping too low, but it's the rate they
drop at which your body reacts to.

Hope this makes some sense.

all the best,
timo

 

[l0vaduck]

hello Jodie,
If your control has recently become tighter then you may well get a "hypo" feeling while
at normal figures. This should improve after a few weeks spent at better sugar levels.

You may also find, as I do, that you sometimes have a reaction to rapid fluctuations
in blood sugar. Your sugars may not actually be dropping too low, but it's the rate they
drop at which your body reacts to.

Hope this makes some sense.

all the best,
timo

I can attest to this too. I feel very hungry when my blood sugar is dropping rapidly - regardless of its starting level. I also feel weak and in need of sustenance when my insulin levels are too low - this might have been what happened when you went shopping - alternatively, you might have had a low and your liver might have done a glucose dump and so by the time you got home you were high.

My solution is always to test and never to rely on the symptoms. If I feel hypo, test, and I'm not, I always test again in another 15-30 minutes to see whether it's dropped - usually it has, in which case depending on how long it is since i last injected fast acting, and how long till the next meal, I will sometimes have a small low GI snack (assuming I'm not actually hypo).

 

[janabelle]

Hi Jodie, i gather you are on Lantus. I had this problem on lantus, used to really feel when blood sugar was going high, sometimes I would think I was hypo and be as high as 16. It was difficult to tell what was happening unless I tested all the time. My BS were so unpredictable a- different one day to the next, even if I did nothing different-high days and low days all over the place. I used to feel a tremor and shakiness, and have read on another forum that other people have experienced the same thing.
Some nights I felt like I was about to have a fit, and my BS was normal. Was on lantus for over 3 years, never had this problem on insulatard. I shifted to an pork isophane last week. Still adjusting to it, but not had many hypos, and feel different. The difference i feel is difficult to describe, but on the whole I feel more normal if that makes any sense. I feel confident I'll b able to lose weight, which has been a battle, eating when i had to, rather than when i wanted to, particularly with the hypos. Were u put on lantus because your control was not good?
Jus