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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Juicyj" data-source="post: 1997473" data-attributes="member: 53162">Sorry to hear that [USER=501078]@johnboy4809[/USER] Hypos really are the worst part of living with this day to day.Speak to your nurse about this, they may want to adjust her background insulin as she may well be in the honeymoon phase and still producing some insulin which disrupts her control and means you have to reduce your basal.  Also note that after a hypo there can very often be a repeat hypo soon after, a hypo can cause the liver to dump some glucose to aid recovery and will then claw back glucose from the blood later on which tips the scales again, so it's best after a hypo to keep a close watch.Tell her she did everything right but her body is getting used to living with this, in time things become much easier but there will be hiccups so reassure her and tell her she's doing a wonderful job.As a parent i'd suggest you get some reading material 'think like a pancreas' available on Amazon is a good read written by a type 1.</blockquote>

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