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RosieDred

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Location
South Wales
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
I woke up on 4.0 this morning. I was quite shaky so I had 2 jelly babies and then had breakfast as normal.

Was I right to have the jelly babies and what would you have done?


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How were your levels after? Keeping simple sugar around is always handy. I use dark chocolate or raisins.
 
depends how I felt as its not actually a hypo.......so normally I would be happy to have breakfast as normal..........just take my insulin as I eat as opposed to 15 minutes before hand...
 
Much like novorapidboi it would depend on how I felt, in the morning with no active insulin on board I would eat breakfast and inject afterwards, I would also knock half a unit off just so that I didn't find myself back at 4 before lunch.
 
I think it would depend on what you had for breakfast as well and whether you thought the carbs in it would see you through until lunch.

I think if I'm honest, I would have had the jelly babies and then my breakfast. Then I would have done my insulin after and done the full dose for my breakfast but none for the jelly babies.

Indiana x


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With myself it also depends on how i feel and how long till next meal, if it was near breakfast i would have had breakfast and injected 10 mins after
 
Thanks everyone. Just curious as I'd never been in this situation before. Was 7.8 before lunch so obviously had too much but also not a total disaster really.


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If you dont have your hypo stopper and just bolus normal amount 10 mins later after breakfast you are not actually filling up your reserves to a normal level and run the risk of going hypo later again.

The rule of thumb should be if you are high you would give yourself a correction dosage of insulin... If at anytime you are low pre meal you should still have your hypo stopper.. Mines 7 dolly mixtures. And then do breakfast and bolus (ideally this would be after checking the levels are beyond 5.0).




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Rosie
Tbh, it doesnt matter what time you are hypo or lowish then your priority should be to treat the hypo. Pre meal or not, that hypo must be priority.
You do not actually know how low you are going to drop.... So your levels could be dropping fast and having breakfast (without hypo stopper) - which wouldnt be fast enough acting glucose could leave you in a horrible state.

Always, always no matter what... Treat the hypo.. Then do normal routine...


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