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<blockquote data-quote="moonstone" data-source="post: 202231" data-attributes="member: 6133"><p>I'm not an endocrinologist, and I have had it explained properly but have forgotten so the best thing I can do is explain it as an old friend of mine did to me, as soon as I was diagnosed. Your liver's got a shop filled with glucose. When you have a hypo, your liver gives you some of its glucose stocks, to help you out of the hypo. When you treat the hypo, you don't want to go mad but you do want to eat enough not just to counter the actual low sugar but to also allow enough glucose to go back and fill up the shelves in the shop in the liver, ready for the next time, which could be sooner than you think. So going high after a hypo isn't something to be injected for unless you really can't handle it, because that sugar's going to be used for something necessary, which could also save your life in the next hypo. It was also drummed into us over + over again on the DAFNE course - never correct for a hypo. I have given in a couple of times because I felt so terrible but went really easy on the correction shots - just one or two units. Don't forget that due to the hypo and your long lasting inulin you most likely already have plenty of insulin in circulation despite the high, so there's not necessarily a need for extra insulin to make the glucose go into the liver. Someone else will have to explain the ins and outs of it all though, as I'm sure it's far more complex than that.</p><p></p><p>Hope that covers it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moonstone, post: 202231, member: 6133"] I'm not an endocrinologist, and I have had it explained properly but have forgotten so the best thing I can do is explain it as an old friend of mine did to me, as soon as I was diagnosed. Your liver's got a shop filled with glucose. When you have a hypo, your liver gives you some of its glucose stocks, to help you out of the hypo. When you treat the hypo, you don't want to go mad but you do want to eat enough not just to counter the actual low sugar but to also allow enough glucose to go back and fill up the shelves in the shop in the liver, ready for the next time, which could be sooner than you think. So going high after a hypo isn't something to be injected for unless you really can't handle it, because that sugar's going to be used for something necessary, which could also save your life in the next hypo. It was also drummed into us over + over again on the DAFNE course - never correct for a hypo. I have given in a couple of times because I felt so terrible but went really easy on the correction shots - just one or two units. Don't forget that due to the hypo and your long lasting inulin you most likely already have plenty of insulin in circulation despite the high, so there's not necessarily a need for extra insulin to make the glucose go into the liver. Someone else will have to explain the ins and outs of it all though, as I'm sure it's far more complex than that. Hope that covers it. [/QUOTE]
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