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jlarsson said:
I always have sweets lying around but prefer using fruit/berries as they will have additional benefits as well as the necessary sugar, if I'm out and about I usually don't carry anything unless I expect to be stuck somewhere and have no way of going to a shop or whatever. Unlike seemingly most diabetics I take a pretty minimalist approach and only carry a Libre reader and a flexpen when I'm out, not a bag of strips and jelly babies etc.
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Fair enough, lets hope those shopkeepers never let you down.
 
jlarsson said:
What's with the obsession over jelly babies anyway? It's always the one used to describe recovering from a hypo here in the UK, when just about any other sweet would do the same job. I tend to have a banana at hand for these things myself.
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Too right mate. Hypos are a perfect reason to eat some fruit.
 
Perhaps trying glucose tablets. Might stop you going too high as you won’t “enjoy” them as much. I treat them as part of my medication much like insulin.
 
Hypo treatment's, I have used grapes then a yogurt at home, also had a spoonful of Jam or my daughter's chocolate spread, quite :yuck: really, so sweet and then some mini rice cakes. In my bag I have a small bag of Meerkat jellies, okay, but a little chewy and in my cupboard, foam banana's and shrimps. Jelly babies are good for hypo's. I had an 'episode in Morison's a few years back, daughter was younger then and I thought there was a conspiracy going on and ended up on the floor crying ( so embarrassing:oops:) my daughter explained I was type 1 diabetic and they gave me a bottle of Lucozade........... I dislike Lucozade with a passion and I wouldn't drink it, but I was made to by my daughter, disgusting drink to me:yuck: But lovely daughter <3 :joyful:
 
mountaintom said:
Perhaps trying glucose tablets. Might stop you going too high as you won’t “enjoy” them as much. I treat them as part of my medication much like insulin.
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I use dextrose tablets. 3g each. I keep them EVERYWHERE. They fit perfectly in that little front sub pocket thing on the right hand side in blokes’ jeans. I don’t really like them very much, so don’t get tempted to overdo them - three gets me out of a hole, maybe another couple after ten to fifteen minutes if they show no sign of working. I always keep them upstairs so I can deal with it without getting out of bed, which helps stop me eating the kitchen. The number of mornings I’ve come downstairs to see utter, utter carnage isn’t funny! I fell down the stairs and landed in the bins once...
 
therower said:
@porl69 . Glad to hear you've recovered from last nights hypo.
One of my biggest bugbears with hypos are people who tell us how to treat them but have never experienced one themselves. HCP's , DSN's and DAFNE course lecturers in particular.
Yes we know full well we only need to have 10/20 g carbs and leave it 15 mins then check our BS again. BUT and it's a big BUT it ain't always that easy. Panic, confusion, I mean who can look at the time when you can't decide which of the 4 hands in front of you is holding the food? And it's not just food it's life, it's recovery, it's our only hope.
Fridge / kitchen raiding should be a national/ Olympic sport.:)
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Id be a good contestant
 
I use 'Dextro energy' tablets for mild hypos, 3 will raise me 2-3mmol usually, I also get on prescription 'glucogel' in 10ml tubes which I use for fast drops or ones I've missed starting.

I've got from 1.9 to 25 before from fridge and cupboard raiding, and quickly, but that's gluco tabs, gel and a couple of mars bars one after another, I always blood test if the libre says low on waking as so far those have shown as >4 on a finger stick.

A semi ripe banana is a a pre swim treat for me, around 20g fairly simple carbs, the more ripe the simpler I've found.
 
porl69 said:
Totally understand @Tony337.
Sometimes I find it hard to type what I am thinking, it comes out totally different to what was in my head and end up upsetting someone :)
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Absolutely and then sometimes I fear I'm being a smug git as I've been diabetic like forever.....

Tony
 
Hey @Tony337 . Just a suggestion but how about joining ....smug and git to create a bespoke word.
Smuggit. meaning. A type 1 diabetic of long standing.
" oh hello newbie, sorry I can't answer your question but I'll tag a smuggit who can help"
:):):):):):)
 
A better day but the current downward slope is from 0.5u, teas's about 30 minutes away so my pre bolus needs close timing as I've 90g carbs in a lasagne & a moussaka to come
 

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