Type 1 T1- Late Hypo symptoms

[FuryG]

Hello!
Sometimes when I get hypo , the routine symptoms is present but not that bad but after I eat , it gets worse then goes away as the BG go up, is that normal?

 

[urbanracer]

Hi @FuryG ,

Can you be a little more specific about the timng of the events.

If your glucose levels are going down, and then you eat, then depending on the type of food it may take a while for your BG's to start rising again.

 

[Dairygrade]

Hi furyG yes it sometimes happens to me I start getting the first affects of a hypo eat something like a sandwich or similar then before my sugars go up I get worst symptoms funnyly enough it doesn't seem to happen when I use gluco tabs perhaps someone on forum can tell us why ?

 

[FuryG]

Hi @FuryG ,

Can you be a little more specific about the timng of the events.

If your glucose levels are going down, and then you eat, then depending on the type of food it may take a while for your BG's to start rising again.

I mean after I eat a chocolate after like 8-10 minutes the symptoms gets worse and I feel more cold on my feet and hands and then all symptoms goes away as it reaches 4.4 mmol , like after another 9 min.

 

[urbanracer]

Hi furyG yes it sometimes happens to me I start getting the first affects of a hypo eat something like a sandwich or similar then before my sugars go up I get worst symptoms funnyly enough it doesn't seem to happen when I use gluco tabs perhaps someone on forum can tell us why ?

Is there a reason why you do not correct with a liquid (OJ, Lucozade, Coke, Glucojuice) ? Liquids are absorbed much more quickly.

 

[FuryG]

Hi @FuryG ,

Can you be a little more specific about the timng of the events.

If your glucose levels are going down, and then you eat, then depending on the type of food it may take a while for your BG's to start rising again.

Yes it's actually goin down

 

[FuryG]

I don't always drink liquids like juices when hypo cause they have high sugar like 30G of sugar per a glass unless it's 2.8 mmol , last time this feeling happened when BG was 3.2 mmo.

 

[noblehead]

I don't always drink liquids like juices when hypo cause they have high sugar like 30G of sugar per a glass unless it's 2.8 mmol , last time this feeling happened when BG was 3.2 mmo.

The party size cans of Coke contains 15g as does GlucoJuice.

 

[catapillar]

Ideal hypo treatment is fast acting high gi things - dextrose tablets, jelly babies, lucozade, glucojuice.

A chocolate bar isn't ideally high gi for the purpose of treating a hypo. Chocolate is quite high fat. That means it will take a while for the sugar in the chocolate to be digested and start raising blood sugar, in the meantime if you have active insulin on board you could continue to drop and experience symptoms while you waiting for the chocolate to start working.

Same can be said of sandwiches, depending on what's in them they might be fatty and bread is a complex carb that can take a while to breakdown and start raising blood sugar.

 

[Dairygrade]

Yes everyone that's good advice just one thing what do members think of hypo stop I sometimes get this on prescription?

 

[Scott-C]

I don't always drink liquids like juices when hypo cause they have high sugar like 30G

Oxo do a tiny little measuring jug for a couple of quid in most kitchen supply places, see photo below, goes up to 60 mls. Don't carry it around with me but have used it to figure out how far up the cup 50/100 mls of fluid looks like in the water cooler cups we have in the office, so if I need some lucozade etc, I can just pour to a certain point and know it's 10 gms (because luco bottle says how many gms per 100 ml), knowing it's not going to overtreat (as if there wasn't enough variables, pink lemonade luco has half carbs of ordinary luco, jeesh!). Way too easy to over-scoof from the bottle and end up on a rollercoaster. It was a huge surprise to me to learn on a DAFNE course just how little carb is needed to tweak back up to a good level without overdoing it.

 

[azure]

Yes everyone that's good advice just one thing what do members think of hypo stop I sometimes get this on prescription?

It might work well but it tastes gross : D

I use Lucozade - sometimes just a few swigs if it's only slightly low. I also use glucose tablets - again just one or two if I'm not that low.