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<blockquote data-quote="CathytheChef" data-source="post: 1472626" data-attributes="member: 39439"><p>Sounds like a horrible situation and one I can completely understand although luckily I don't have the same problem at the moment. Have you considered a freestyle libre? They're expensive (£50 a fortnight) but mine completely changed my life. If you don't claim PIP at the moment you definitely should - I work as a money adviser and although not everyone with T1D qualifies you definitely should. If you did get it the money could pay for the libre for you. The good thing about the libre is you can see you're heading low at a glance - I used to keep my blood sugars above 10 all the time because any lower than that I'd be scared I'd soon be hypo. Now I don't worry about that because if I'm at 5 but the arrow is straight across or going up then I know I don't need to eat.</p><p></p><p>I know you probably know all this, but not eating is the worst thing you can do in your situation. For a start then you'll get ketones, which make you feel rubbish, not hungry and more worried about hypos etc. On top of that, if you do have a hypo it'll be more dangerous because your liver won't have any glucose in it to release (I learned this the hard way!). If you eat a decent amount of carbs then if you are hypo you'll come out of it even if you are asleep etc.</p><p></p><p>I think the other thing you could do is look into an assistance dog. They can let you know when you're hypo and even wake you up during the night if you're hypo. Also would probably help you with going out etc.</p><p></p><p>Hope something there helps you - we're all different and what works for one doesn't always work for another, so just a couple of ideas!</p><p></p><p>Thinking of you xoxo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CathytheChef, post: 1472626, member: 39439"] Sounds like a horrible situation and one I can completely understand although luckily I don't have the same problem at the moment. Have you considered a freestyle libre? They're expensive (£50 a fortnight) but mine completely changed my life. If you don't claim PIP at the moment you definitely should - I work as a money adviser and although not everyone with T1D qualifies you definitely should. If you did get it the money could pay for the libre for you. The good thing about the libre is you can see you're heading low at a glance - I used to keep my blood sugars above 10 all the time because any lower than that I'd be scared I'd soon be hypo. Now I don't worry about that because if I'm at 5 but the arrow is straight across or going up then I know I don't need to eat. I know you probably know all this, but not eating is the worst thing you can do in your situation. For a start then you'll get ketones, which make you feel rubbish, not hungry and more worried about hypos etc. On top of that, if you do have a hypo it'll be more dangerous because your liver won't have any glucose in it to release (I learned this the hard way!). If you eat a decent amount of carbs then if you are hypo you'll come out of it even if you are asleep etc. I think the other thing you could do is look into an assistance dog. They can let you know when you're hypo and even wake you up during the night if you're hypo. Also would probably help you with going out etc. Hope something there helps you - we're all different and what works for one doesn't always work for another, so just a couple of ideas! Thinking of you xoxo [/QUOTE]
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