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- Type of diabetes
- LADA
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi, I’ve just my the worst night with diabetes yet and I’m trying to understand where I went so wrong. I had the exact same dinner as the night before, same bolus, same activity levels that day etc. This time my blood sugar dropped so I had a couple of jelly babies around when it was 5.2. Tested and it was still 5.2 so had another jelly baby (I’m nervous of hypos and can drop fast) tested fifteen minutes later and was 3.7 so had a Lift drink, waited and tested and then was 3.2?!?
I double checked my insulin pen and had taken the units I thought I had for dinner so it wasn’t that I gave myself too much?
I ended up with climbing blood sugars and went for a walk last night. Came back and tested as my Libre had stopped working (scan error messages) and I was at 22.5. Ugh. Decided to do a correction to bring it down (one unit takes me down 7 points) and drank water, went to bed and pretty much the same scenario! Was dropping so tried jelly babies, checking constantly, then ended up hypo so another lift drink, wait, check then still hypo so another lift drink. I went high again (not so bad this time) and sat up until half three.
Can anyone guess what went wrong? Random delayed food digestion for dinner? I’m exhausted today
I double checked my insulin pen and had taken the units I thought I had for dinner so it wasn’t that I gave myself too much?
I ended up with climbing blood sugars and went for a walk last night. Came back and tested as my Libre had stopped working (scan error messages) and I was at 22.5. Ugh. Decided to do a correction to bring it down (one unit takes me down 7 points) and drank water, went to bed and pretty much the same scenario! Was dropping so tried jelly babies, checking constantly, then ended up hypo so another lift drink, wait, check then still hypo so another lift drink. I went high again (not so bad this time) and sat up until half three.
Can anyone guess what went wrong? Random delayed food digestion for dinner? I’m exhausted today