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<blockquote data-quote="hh1" data-source="post: 1696637" data-attributes="member: 146541"><p>Poor you! As someone who used to spend more time than I'd have liked alone in hotel rooms because of work it can be lonely enough without having to cope with your first hypo! Absolutely agree with [USER=372717]@EllieM[/USER], overdoing the fast-acting carbohydrate to fix a hypo can make you sky high and feeling lousy afterwards and for you with no bolus, no way to deal with that. I <em>always </em>have jelly babies; some in a handbag/briefcase/whatever, and 3 (which are enough for me to immediately fix a hypo) in a tiny ziplock bag somewhere in a pocket. It sounds as if you maybe haven't been given a lot of information about what happens when you are hypo and how to treat it effectively. Eating twice as many jelly babies won't knock your hypo on the head any faster than eating the right amount; it doubles your intake but doesn't halve the time it takes for them to take effect. I eat 3, wait 10 minutes (that's the really hard part because your brain's telling you to eat anything in sight and the sweeter the better!) test my BG and if it's over 4 and rising (my Libre tells me that but before the Libre I wanted to see maybe 4.5 to be happy I wasn't going to plummet again) then eat some longer-acting carbs eg some bread (when working away I'd always carry some digestives as a convenient if not ideal alternative). If still below 4, repeat jelly babies, wait another 10 minutes, test again. It's a real pain, especially when I hypo just as I'm about to dash off to an appointment, but after years and years this is what works for me. Hope that helps and that your day goes okay</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hh1, post: 1696637, member: 146541"] Poor you! As someone who used to spend more time than I'd have liked alone in hotel rooms because of work it can be lonely enough without having to cope with your first hypo! Absolutely agree with [USER=372717]@EllieM[/USER], overdoing the fast-acting carbohydrate to fix a hypo can make you sky high and feeling lousy afterwards and for you with no bolus, no way to deal with that. I [I]always [/I]have jelly babies; some in a handbag/briefcase/whatever, and 3 (which are enough for me to immediately fix a hypo) in a tiny ziplock bag somewhere in a pocket. It sounds as if you maybe haven't been given a lot of information about what happens when you are hypo and how to treat it effectively. Eating twice as many jelly babies won't knock your hypo on the head any faster than eating the right amount; it doubles your intake but doesn't halve the time it takes for them to take effect. I eat 3, wait 10 minutes (that's the really hard part because your brain's telling you to eat anything in sight and the sweeter the better!) test my BG and if it's over 4 and rising (my Libre tells me that but before the Libre I wanted to see maybe 4.5 to be happy I wasn't going to plummet again) then eat some longer-acting carbs eg some bread (when working away I'd always carry some digestives as a convenient if not ideal alternative). If still below 4, repeat jelly babies, wait another 10 minutes, test again. It's a real pain, especially when I hypo just as I'm about to dash off to an appointment, but after years and years this is what works for me. Hope that helps and that your day goes okay [/QUOTE]
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