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benunited

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Sometimes, even after being T1 for more than 10 years, I just get stumped with how BS works!

My control is pretty good at the moment as I'm eating healthily, low carbs and doing lots of exercise. Did a half marathon on Sunday, workout Monday and two hour long runs yesterday.

This morning my BS was 4.7 (using the old system). All I had for breakfast was a low fat lemon yoghurt, which has 12g of carbs.

Normally 1 unit of novorapid would be enough to cover that. I decided to wait an hour and a half as I thought there was a good chance I'd have been hypo if I hadn't had my yoghurt, so I though it would probably take me up to around 7.0.

So an hour and a half later I'm at 12.8. Normally I'd need 2-3 units to get me back to 5.0 or 6.0 so I took 2.

An hour later I'm still at 12.8, so another 2 units.

I just know that having taken 4 units for ONE LOW FAT YOGHURT I'll probably hypo soon.

Sometimes I just don't understand! Any advice much appreciated!!
 
Strange, but I've had similar things happen to me - infuriating.
Just a wild guess, but perhaps you went low just before you woke & your liver dumped glucose into your system. You then did a test just as it began to increase & added the yoghurt into the equation...

In the end it's probably best to put it down to "one of those crazy diabetes sessions" and just carry on!
 
Novo rapid has a 4 hour life span, most is used at the 2 hour mark.

I definitely wouldnt be correcting again at the hour mark otherwise you are leaving yourself open for hypo's later on.

There is no hard and fast rule though to be honest normally you treat diabetes proactively but sometimes you need to swap that to reactively because generally no two days are the same.
 
On the odd occasion I get the same problem and get angry trying to understand the cause. Duneplodder might be right with the glucose dump suggestion. I never stack up my Novorapid dosage between meals as I did once and hypo'd. If I am high after say 2 hours I try to move about and work it off before my next pre-prandial BG reading. It usually works.
Good luck.
 
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