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Posting here because this fits several sub-fora.
Just been woken from sleep by the alarm on my phone from LibreLink.
Reading was 3.5 mmol/L.
I assumed that I had been lying on the sensor as this is a known issue.
Scans over the next few minutes showed readings of 3.9, 4.3 then 4.2.
However a scan a few minutes later showed a 3.8.
This was looking less like a glitch as I was sitting up in bed and so not leaning on the sensor.
Came downstairs and finger pricked and the reading was 3.7.
Scan at the same time showed 4.3.
So apparently not a false alarm.
I've scarfed down a nectarine which was lying around and the scan is returning 4.3 again (I wouldn't expect a rise for a good few minutes if the sensor is 15 minutes behind blood). However this now raises the question; did I just have a minor hypo?
Diet, exercise and Metformin aren't supposed to do this to a T2.
I feel a bit woozy because I was woken from a very deep sleep, and I was drinking white wine before I went to bed. Nothing that I could identify as hypo symptoms.
[If a hypo is feeling slightly tipsy and you've had a drink or two then how do you tell the difference?]
However (and I've touched on this before) if you've never knowingly had a hypo then how do you know?
Further, if you are sound asleep and you go hypo how do you know then?
If you don't have a Libre 2 to wake you up?
Top it all off my nose started to run so I blew it on a tissue and now my nose is bleeding.
I'm pretty sure that it isn't a hypo symptom though.
What a weird half hour or so.
Just scanned again and up to 4.6 so my liver and/or the nectarine to the rescue.
I am not alone in the house so no major worries on that front.
Just mightily puzzled.
Also noting that I didn't apparently go below 3.5 so that may be my floor before the liver kicks in.
Just been woken from sleep by the alarm on my phone from LibreLink.
Reading was 3.5 mmol/L.
I assumed that I had been lying on the sensor as this is a known issue.
Scans over the next few minutes showed readings of 3.9, 4.3 then 4.2.
However a scan a few minutes later showed a 3.8.
This was looking less like a glitch as I was sitting up in bed and so not leaning on the sensor.
Came downstairs and finger pricked and the reading was 3.7.
Scan at the same time showed 4.3.
So apparently not a false alarm.
I've scarfed down a nectarine which was lying around and the scan is returning 4.3 again (I wouldn't expect a rise for a good few minutes if the sensor is 15 minutes behind blood). However this now raises the question; did I just have a minor hypo?
Diet, exercise and Metformin aren't supposed to do this to a T2.
I feel a bit woozy because I was woken from a very deep sleep, and I was drinking white wine before I went to bed. Nothing that I could identify as hypo symptoms.
[If a hypo is feeling slightly tipsy and you've had a drink or two then how do you tell the difference?]
However (and I've touched on this before) if you've never knowingly had a hypo then how do you know?
Further, if you are sound asleep and you go hypo how do you know then?
If you don't have a Libre 2 to wake you up?
Top it all off my nose started to run so I blew it on a tissue and now my nose is bleeding.
I'm pretty sure that it isn't a hypo symptom though.
What a weird half hour or so.
Just scanned again and up to 4.6 so my liver and/or the nectarine to the rescue.
I am not alone in the house so no major worries on that front.
Just mightily puzzled.
Also noting that I didn't apparently go below 3.5 so that may be my floor before the liver kicks in.