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helensaramay said:
However, I have found the cheapest way to buy them is in bulk on eBay.
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Thank you kindly having just spent £9.82 on 24 packs of orange Dextro tablets on there from your heads up. :)

Now why didn't I think of that.... :p

Edit, back in days gone by Mars bars were the turn to thing for hypos, but being on your own with 2 young kids who would pinch and eat them without a conscience made me find stuff others don't like....
 
helensaramay said:
But but but but ...

The Daily Express says you just eat 10 jelly beans and "maintain blood sugar levels" (https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...-blood-sugar-levels-jelly-beans-hypoglycaemia)

They also say eat four ***** bears (https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...1-diet-raise-blood-sugar-levels-hypoglycaemia)

I gave up looking for near identical articles after that.

(Both jelly beans and ***** bears are better than chocolate for hypos!)
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Maybe maybe however Jaffa Cakes for the win :hilarious:
 
@kev-w . Mars bars were my go to hypo treatment for many years.
Leave one in the car for a few weeks in weather like we have at the moment and they made for a very interesting eat at hypo time.:):):)
 
therower said:
@kev-w . Mars bars were my go to hypo treatment for many years.
Leave one in the car for a few weeks in weather like we have at the moment and they made for a very interesting eat at hypo time.:):):)
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My wife used to leave bags of Haribos in the centre console of my van. (A Mazda bongo.) What with a mid mounted engine in the summer, we soon had a "superbow." :D
 
helensaramay said:
But but but but ...

The Daily Express says you just eat 10 jelly beans and "maintain blood sugar levels" (https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...-blood-sugar-levels-jelly-beans-hypoglycaemia)

They also say eat four ***** bears (https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...1-diet-raise-blood-sugar-levels-hypoglycaemia)

I gave up looking for near identical articles after that.

(Both jelly beans and ***** bears are better than chocolate for hypos!)
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“The easy bit is that, fundamentally, there is only one reason a person has a hypo - there is too much insulin in their system. The key is to work out why that is the case.“

“The NHS added low blood sugar levels could be prevented by regularly checking blood sugar levels, always carrying a sugary snack and not skipping meals.”

Or just because the day has a y in it, the planets are misaligned, the weather, or you’ve got the wrong colour pants on... :rolleyes:

And as Dr Cavan is still recommending the 15/15 hypo treatment rule, I don’t think I’ll be investing in his book anytime soon. 6-9g total is usually more than enough for me, 12g at most.
 
Mel dCP said:
I actually prefer using Dex tabs because they’re not enjoyable - they’re a medicine for a medical purpose. A hypo isn’t a time for a “treat”, IMO, you’re usually not in the right frame of mind for a treat anyway. Have a treat when you’d really enjoy it, and dose for it if you need.
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I agree with you however, this is fine if your in a state where you can administer them yourself, but like @porl69 if your at a point where you partner is trying to get something inside you to bring you back up from the hypo, yep I'm also a petulant 5 year old and it can be a real struggle to get me eat something, then something sweet and tasty is the only way she will get something inside of me.

And even then it can be an "interesting" struggle depending on what mood I'm in :)

And as pointed out many time we are all different, unique, cute, problematic and sexy and have different ways of treating hypo's :)
 
My go to food/ drink to treat a hypo varies depending on where I am. I tend to do lots of walking in far flung places whilst birdwatching so always carry bottle of coke and some biscuits. Coke is very fast acting and can get me back within about minutes

At home I tend just to have a coffee some sugar, amount varies depending on how low, and for some reason ginger nuts with my coffee and that brings me back fairly quickly

Always keep a bottle of coke in car as well just in case I am ever stuck in long traffic jam
 
Back in the days of less knowledge, mixtard insulin, no carb counting and hypos requiring my wonderful wife to get me out of nighttime hypos, I would often find myself smeared in dried weetabix at some silly hour of the morning.
Me...” how bad was it?”
Wife.....” you’re an awkward ba****d, why can’t you just do what I ask? I had to smear 3 weetabix around your clamped shut mouth”
Me......”sorry babe”
Wife.....”it’s ok, but next time I am going to kick you”
Me.......”that’s not nice”
Wife......” don’t worry, you won’t realise I’ve done it”
 
helensaramay said:
Ha - my evil ploy worked - I got you to read the Daily Express hahahahahahaha (why is there no devil emoji?)
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Next week. Jelly beans tackle nerve agent poisoning? ;)
therower said:
Back in the days of less knowledge, mixtard insulin, no carb counting and hypos requiring my wonderful wife to get me out of nighttime hypos, I would often find myself smeared in dried weetabix at some silly hour of the morning.
Me...” how bad was it?”
Wife.....” you’re an awkward ba****d, why can’t you just do what I ask? I had to smear 3 weetabix around your clamped shut mouth”
Me......”sorry babe”
Wife.....”it’s ok, but next time I am going to kick you”
Me.......”that’s not nice”
Wife......” don’t worry, you won’t realise I’ve done it”
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Strange how different we all are.. As a kid, I woke, raided the kitchen & my dad (the first up.) found carnage. (& no milk.) :banghead:
It's only whilst in a "guest room" or hotel, I will strategically place treatment by the bed.

Now, as an adult. The only time my wife might know I've had a low is when returning to bed..

Our kitchen always looks like carnage. I pride myself on the "stealth." :);)
 
@Jaylee . Totally agree. We are all different and our hypos manifest differently through our lives.
Wife has no knowledge of nighttime hypos now. Glucotabs at bedside, ability to get downstairs and raid the kitchen, CGM warnings are all things lacking 20+ yrs ago;);)
 
“In order to increase blood sugar levels as soon as possible, (during a low blood sugar, hypoglycaemic, event), the ideal option is a sugar-rich food or drink,” he wrote.
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No s**t Sherlock :banghead:

That's got to be worth a quack or two as I waddle back to my pond :)

Edit, that's from the express link
 
I've had the same blood sugar for half an hour, according to Freestyle Libre. Where the upward force, carbohydrates eaten, is exactly equal to the downward force, insulin on board.

:( No wonder it doesn't happen very often.
 
Alison54321 said:
I've had the same blood sugar for half an hour, according to Freestyle Libre. Where the upward force, carbohydrates eaten, is exactly equal to the downward force, insulin on board.

:( No wonder it doesn't happen very often.
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I saw that happen on mine today at work funnily enough, 48 minutes and it didn't move at all :) it's getting its own back now at 9.8 rising slowly but the insulin should be due to peak so am holding off on a correction.
 
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