Alison54321
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 1,221
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Fair enough, lets hope those shopkeepers never let you down.
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.
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.
Bananas in pyjamas do. Ask any child if you don't believe methey have no feet.
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...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.
Id be a good contestant@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.
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
Today is probably the best days control i have had in years.
And i put it all down to spending time on this forum. THANK YOU!!!!!
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Well, after the abject horror of yesterday, when it took until 5pm to get under 7mmol...
I’m having a good day today.
Hope the diabetes force is with you all today, my fellow T1 Jedi...
Happy with this View attachment 27120 and it’s totally in line with blood readings. Whoop!
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