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Hypo? Weird readings

nosher8355 said:
I think you have found your answer to your tastes and understanding.
It all depends where on the scale of things you believe you are happy with.
If you are happy in the fours or fives then so be it.
The recommended treatment for a hypo is something that is overloaded with carbs or glucose, sugar. To get your bloods up quickly.
But that causes problems in itself unless your condition predisposes that you must because of insulin resistance.
However, if somebody like yourself is in normal for much of the time and spiking with quick glucose can rebound, as @AndBreathe has alluded to.
What you can do is try both methods and see the results.
My glucose fix for a hospital derived hypo, had my stay in hospital extended by four hours because my bloods were bouncing up and down all over the place until I took the initiative to slowly bring my bloods up from a hypo, while everyone around me in the ward, thought I was mad (and weird!)
It was a lesson well learned!
After all, it's your health!
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Thank you @nosher8355
I think that slowly bringing my bloods up from a potential hypo is what I did on Christmas day. I used what was available but wasn't too carby and tested until I was at a level that was still low (for me) but that I felt comfortable at. My other concern was to bring myself out of fairly high level of ketosis that accompanied the low.

About RH: Years ago I had several episodes of rebound hypos and hypers and would hate to put myself through that again which, in a way, is why for several years I was more concerned that I didn't hypo and consequently didn't pay attention to my BG constantly being far too high. It's why I like to keep my BG fairly steady.
 
Chook said:
Thank you @nosher8355
I think that slowly bringing my bloods up from a potential hypo is what I did on Christmas day. I used what was available but wasn't too carby and tested until I was at a level that was still low (for me) but that I felt comfortable at. My other concern was to bring myself out of fairly high level of ketosis that accompanied the low.

About RH: Years ago I had several episodes of rebound hypos and hypers and would hate to put myself through that again which, in a way, is why for several years I was more concerned that I didn't hypo and consequently didn't pay attention to my BG constantly being far too high. It's why I like to keep my BG fairly steady.
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That's where I exist, mate!
I couldn't live anywhere else, it's a big no, no.
I think, the journey to the here and now, has benefited me in so many ways and I have got the experience now, not to go along with the norm.
Being weird, medically, and not knowing, needed a new and different approach to my treatment, my endocrinologist was so persuasive to get my life back on track, this forum furbished the reasoning behind it all! And I have my life back.
The reason that it really works for us RH ers, is as you have alluded. That not having the spike offsets the trigger for over production of insulin which eliminates the hypo.
Quite logical! As Spock would say!
The only hypo I have had, was intentional in hospital for an OGTT in nearly two years.
That's what is the most important part of my control!
So why, should I do anything different?
If it works for me, it could and does work for others!
 
Sometimes I've felt ok in the 3 mmol/l range and don't start to really suffer until into the 2 and less mmol/l. Mild hypoglycaemia is subjective psychologically but you can show physiological changes, everyone reacts differently. :)
 
@ noshed8355

You and I have a lot in common.

The only medical 'support' I had about the yoyoing hypos and hyper was to be told that you can't hypo while on metformin so it must have been something else. (Try telling that to my husband who had physically drag me across a muddy field whilst on a long country walk because I'd gone beyond the stage of knowing I needed to get my sugars up. That disbelief was really when I lost faith in my GP and DN and is the reason I prefer to try things out without too much medical interference.
 
I have gastroparesis which messes up your sugar levels big time. I've felt like I am having a hypo only to test and get a 15 mmol/l + reading. On other occasions I thought I was hyperglycaemic and tested low. It baffles me how we can perceive things differently.
 
Of course, you can't have hypos on metformin!!!!!

Of course, these outdated myths do so much harm.
Of course, we can always come on here and help the unfortunates who have been advised by these so called medical practitioners!
 
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