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First Ever Hypo

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Tooconfused

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Type of diabetes
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I had my first hypo yesterday while walking the streets of Madrid. It was a very scary moment, I wouldn't wish it on anybody. Now I'm even more afraid of low carb, so much so that I'm starting to have bread and oatmeal again. I find that if I go for a 20 minute walk after oats & toast my sugar is back down. Prefer doing that to risking another episode like yesterday.

Good luck everyone and be careful.
 
Not everyone eats a very low carb high fat diet, many well controlled diabetics just eat a healthy balanced diet just with fewer carbs to help keep their BG labels stable.

You can eat any diet you want to but why cut out all carbs if you don't have to? If you can eat bread before exercise then you don't have to not eat it just because someone else tells you not to.

Test your own BG levels after the food you eat and decide on your own diet, the one that suits you.
 
Tooconfused said:
I had my first hypo yesterday while walking the streets of Madrid. It was a very scary moment, I wouldn't wish it on anybody. Now I'm even more afraid of low carb, so much so that I'm starting to have bread and oatmeal again. I find that if I go for a 20 minute walk after oats & toast my sugar is back down. Prefer doing that to risking another episode like yesterday.

Good luck everyone and be careful.
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How did you know you had a hypo?
Did you have the symptoms? Can you describe them to us?
Did you test your blood sugars?
Did you get your meds(?) wrong?

It's still your choice how you eat but the very thing that's definitely going to raise your blood glucose problems is having more carbs.

Just have medium carbs first and see how you do!
 
Had very cold sweats, shivers, trembling and checked sugar, it was 68, very low. Meds taken as normal, but I'd only had natural yogurt with some nuts, and fried ham and tomato. (and a coffee) Should have had some toast probably
 
Have you adjusted your insulin to take account of your reduced carbs? You need to do this with help from your care team.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Have you adjusted your insulin to take account of your reduced carbs? You need to do this with help from your care team.
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Haven't adjusted anything yet no. The only guide I have from the hospital about insulin is a paper which says "total pre-breakfast, pre-lunch and pre-dinner readings and divide by 3, once a week. If number you have is between 80-130, don't adjust anything, below that number adjust -2, above adjust +2. I inject 24 units each morning

So far it's been between 80 - 130 so haven't touched it. Going to hospital tomorrow to have a chat
 
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