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lynbrown

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I had a hypo at 5am this morning and had some cereal ( I know why I had a hypo) and managed to get back to sleep, although I felt tired all morning. I had egg on brown bread for lunch, took 6units of Novorapid. After lunch I fell asleep and when I woke up at 4.30pm, I was having another hypo, 3.2. I ate a piece of baguette with marmalade. About 40 minutes later I checked my blood again and it was 15.4. Should I have had some insulin with my baguette? Seems crazy if I was having a hypo.

I take 6 x3 units Novorapid during the day and 16 Humulin at suppertime. I also take 4 metformin per day.
 
Do you carb count? Did you take your blood sugar before lunch & before injecting your novorapid?

If you are taking in carbs to correct a low blood sugar, you shouldn't bolus for those carbs. That does however depend on you taking in just enough carbs to bring you back to target, rather than go all the way over to 15. A good way of doing that is to treat your hypos with a boring hypo treatment - 3 or 4 dextrose tablets. Seems like the baguette and marmalade was over correcting the hypo.

However, as you have had two hypos today, you are vulnerable to hypos, so I would be super cautious about correcting your hyper and try to do that only with a meal.
 
1 carb raises me about 7 so a strawberry would have been enough to bring me back to the 5's. Or a tsp hummus of a radish. I used to over treat hypos. Then ride the roller coaster. Trick is to find how much 1 carb raises you. Could be 3 or 10. Depends how close to food. Test test test. Also depends on if your still going down or not. I am extremely carb sensitive. Again test test test to get to know YIOUR personal carb tolerance
 
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