Hei Rachel, if you’re new to all this I wonder if you have a CGM? If so or when you get them you can adjust the low alarm point to a setting above which you start to feel ‘symptoms’, so you have plenty of time to do something about it. But in order to do that you need to know at which point you start to get ‘symptoms’.
I can often feel my blood sugar level changing, but when I check it is actually going in the other direction to what I thought it was doing!
I was frightened to go to sleep when I was first diagnosed, in case I had a hypo while sleeping…but since I was exhausted, the fear never stopped or stops me sleeping.
I was advised a certain level to be at at bedtime, +2 if I have taken any alcohol and not to go to bed within 2 hours of taking fast acting insulin.
For a few months I tried to keep my BS lower than I aim for now, then realised I felt a wee bit ill most of the time.
I know that swimming plummets my bs very rapidly, so I carb up before a swim and check bs after 20 minutes of swimming. If I go for a walk I always have sweets or something in my pocket..except of course the other day when I had a ‘spontaneous’ walk after doing the weekly shop! Trouser pockets=empty, jacket pockets =empty, not even any blackberries to be had on the brambles! Comforted myself with the fact that my CGM generally reads a bit lower than a finger stick. But made my way back to the roadway sharpish. I was fine, but on doing a finger stick at home the CGM was reading true! I find the red on the
I had a medic alert bracelet made, once the doctors had confirmed which sort of diabetes I had. Think being told I would be on insulin for the rest of my life was a bit of a clue!