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Presistent hypos

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Kagamine

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Hi Diabetes Fellows, My situation here is Really tough im going through a presistent cycles of hypos without taking any insuline or anything, i woke up and toke my usual dose of insuline and eat my breakfast ( same amount of carbs as always ) then after 2 hours i experienced a hypo i thought it was just the banana that i was planning to eat so it seems i treated it then i felt a bit relieved but just like 15 minutes after the relief i start experiecing another hypo with 50 mg/dl and since then for 5 hours now the same cycle kept happening until now, i eat some carbs to treat the hypo but a few minutes later it reoccure again which is driving me crazy ( i need some help really ) what can be causing this and sorry for broken english
 
Hey @Kagamine
Have you done anything different to usual over the last 24 hours?
A few things can cause a delayed lower BG. The two obvious ones are
- Drinking. As our livers consider alcohol as poison, it deals with getting rid of this as a priority. During this time, it does not drip glucose into our blood stream. As a result, we have less glucose to be mopped up with our basal insulin. This can cause a low BG for 24 to 48 hours.
- Exercise. When we exercise, out liver dumps a tonne of glucose into our blood stream to give us the energy we need. As a result, our glucose stores within our liver is reduced. This affects our BG in two ways: we have less glucose to drip throughout te day and our liver "steals" more of the glucose from the food we eat.

There are a couple of ways to manage this situation:
- if we know it is going to happen, we can reduce our basal insulin.
- if we do not know, we need to consume more carbs than usual. Don't go overboard but perhaps drink a weak fruit juice (with added water) or milk throughout the day

If you are still experiencing this come night time, you may want to set an alarm to test throughout the night.

I hope you are sorted out soon.

And don't worry about your English. I have read much worse from native English speaker
 
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Nope i haven't done anything unusual or suspicious, ( neither i do drink ) but the thing is im a patient of ibs " irritable bowel syndrome" and forgot to add that this problem has occured once to me about 6 months ago, so now i start to suspect ibs or anything related to digestion in general which may cause bad absorption or delayed digestion.

well thanks for the helpful reply helen, i think im kinda reilieved now from this issue kinda stable BG for now but still feel a bit nauseous maybe due to those repetitive hypos that i have been experiencing the whole time.

i'd like to ask someone with ibs here about probiotics, if it does really benefit and help with ibs symptoms ?
 
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