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Type 1.5 Problems with overcompensating for hypos.

antoniobarba1944

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After being diagnosed with type 1 LADA last year, and after studying the results of my blood levels for 6 months, my diabetic specialist in the hospital gave me a ratio of 1 unit of insulin to 10 grams of carbs. The target that she gave me for my blood results was to keep between 140 mg/dl and 180mg/dl, and to keep my carb intake at around 200 grams per day. For much of the time I find it works, but I find that now I am getting quite a few days when my blood sugar level drops below 50mg/dl and I am beginning a Hypo, and in the mornings after a satisfactory reading the previous night my blood levels are sometimes over 200 mg/dl. I find that I can compensate for the high blood reading with a slight increase in my insulin before breakfast. However to compensate the hypo, which I do with about 25 carbohydrates of food, I seem to be overcompensating, and ending up then with a very high reading. I wonder if anyone can give me some ideas of how they deal with hypos without overcompensating ?

I am type 1 lada using 3 x humalog insulin pre - meals and 1 x Lantus at night .
 
Hi there, and welcome
Just a guess here, but the clue seems to be where you say : " to compensate the hypo, which I do with about 25 carbohydrates of food"

I'm assuming you mean food containing 25g carbohydrate ? Any particular kind of food ? I'm asking this because not all carbohydrate has the same effect on raising blood glucose (at least it doesn't in my case ! ) For example, if I ate bread that contains 25g of carbs, my BG would go through the roof
Personally I treat hypos with dextrose tablets because it's a controlled measure that I know will raise my BG out of hypo into normal range without overcompensatng .I generally only need two, but the amount will be different for others, as we are so individual..

A plus is that I don't actually like them so am not tempted to eat more than I need

Signy
 

Thanks for your imput Heathenlass, as I am still only learning about the complex way diabetes has to be treated, any help from people with similar problems is much appreciated. I think trying dextrose tablets may be one path to try. I live in Spain , but I expect the farmacia here will sell the same or a similar product.
 


Thank you Vic Hill, I will have to check between what type of carbs I use to compensate a hypo, to be honest I have been taking juice or a few biscuits one time, and another time a cake , another time a small chocolate biscuit. I will have to try glucose tablets and see if I they suit me.
 
You are welcome, Antionio

I know you can buy "Glucotabs" in Spain, but they are a little expensive (here too) compared with other brands. Speak to your pharmacist as there ARE others, I just can't remember the names

Signy
 
Heathenlass said:
You are welcome, Antionio

I know you can buy "Glucotabs" in Spain, but they are a little expensive (here too) compared with other brands. Speak to your pharmacist as there ARE others, I just can't remember the names

Signy
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Thanks Heathenlass, first thing tomorrow I will pop into the farmacia and find out what glucose tablets are available here. Until now I had not even thought about glucose tablets. When I lived in the UK and was playing a lot of soccer, a few games every week, I used dextrose tablets for an energy boost, also I will be able to get a definite measure of grams of carbohydrates with them.

antonio
 
I have 7 dolly mixtures if between 3 and 4 bg. If lower than 3 I have 10 dolly mixtures.depending on what I am doing... If gardening or walking etc then I will also have a digestive or half a slice of bread


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