Had a bad day today!

[Darwin195]

At Work....

I was sat at work about 10 past 9 doing what I normally do and them signs and feelings that you get when a hypo kicks in E.g. Shaking, Eyes and every thing else all hit me at once so I rushed to the staff room and my levels was 2.7 so I had 5-6 belly babies and a sandwich and a pack at of chips and I sat down and rested for 15 minutes and it went off and I had dinner at 12 till 1 and about half 1 it all happened again?

I had breakfast at the same time as normal and dinner at the same time as normal and my 1st & 2nd injections

Why did that happen?

 

[catherinecherub]

Sorry to hear about your bad day @Darwin195,

I'll bump your post up to see if a Type1 can help.

 

[tim2000s]

@Darwin195 PLease can you confirm your insulin regime. Without telling us that it's difficult to provide any advice. Reading your post, I assume the following:

You are on MDI using a basal insulin and a boluses with meals.

You ate breakfast at around 7-7.30 am. You injected rapid acting insulin before breakfast.

At dinner time, you injected at about 12 and ate in the period following that.

In both cases you hypoed roughly 1.5-2 hours post bolus injection.

Based on this set of assumptions, the timing of your hypos is consistent with your bolus insulin being too high for the amount of carbs in the food you ate.

Are you carb counting? Do you know your insulin:carb ratio? Have you done a course like DAFNE?

As a point of comment regarding Hypos, and this is something that everyone should do, but sadly people don't seem to anymore.

Always carry glucose in some form on your person, whether it is a few jelly babies or dextro tabs. Treat the hypo when you feel it and don't worry about testing until you have treated.