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Tony337 said:
I have a tendency to over treat a hypo such is my love of jelly babies.
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This is why I make sure my "emergency carbohydrate" isn't something I actually like very much. (I have no will power when I 'm hypo, my body just goes "must eat, must eat", and if it's something nice I'm lost.) I personally like glucotabs because they're large (2 or 3 does it for me), they come in nice recloseable tubes (I hate searching at the bottom of a handbag or pocket for wandering carbs) and they're easy to chew (very important for night time hypos), BUT I'd never eat them for pleasure....
 
I take your point @EllieM but we have a lot of bish to deal with so I want something nice, something good to deal with something bad.........I certainly don't want to shove some chalk in my gob and think "oh that was worthwhile"....

Tony wanders off whistling a jaunty tune............
 
@EllieM . Have to agree hypo treatment shouldn't be a treat. It would also appear that we may have something in common. Certain hypos cause me to go into " eat the kitchen " mode. Invariably the poor old jelly babies take a big hit followed by just about anything nice ( that's hypo nice, bananas, cheese sandwiches, chocolate digestives, malt loaf etc ).If, and its a big if, I can manage just a few glucotabs and chill out for 15 mins then it usually works out a lot better. Sadly hypo head has the ability to over rule common sense head all to easily..
 
So @therower theres no treat in treatment......
Am I a little more laissez-faire because of 44 years of type 1ing or is that just a bit smug?
Either way I shall continue with my jelly babies and occasional midget gem (now they are lethal as I don't know how many I've had because I shove the little buggers in by the handful!) and leave you chalk lovers to your own devices......

ermmm I hope everyone knows this is a nice friendly good natured bit of old fashioned banter?

Hope so

Tony wanders off contemplating the meaning of life.......
 
Hi @Tony337 . Yes you have a few years experience on me ( a baby at 27 yrs :):)).
I'm think you may have misunderstood me.
I would dearly like to be able to just have a " few " tabs for an hypo. Sadly it seldom happens. Usually the tabs only work when I'm going low at a steady rate and I just need to top up for a short stint until I get chance to eat properly.
A proper hypo that needs proper treatment will always see me stuff jelly babies in as fast as possible, along with whatever else I can lay my hands on.
Keep up the banter;););).

Tony wanders off to contemplate the life of jelly babies. So sweet, so innocent, so tasty. Will they ever realise their life saving attributes :):)
 
Glucotabs are pretty good, but it's infuriating the way the last two often get jammed in the tube when they slip sideways. I've often had to poke a pen in to dislodge them and usually end up with a cloud of powdered glucose over my jumper or trousers, makes it look like I've been snorting cocaine.
 
Scott-C said:
Glucotabs are pretty good, but it's infuriating the way the last two often get jammed in the tube when they slip sideways. I've often had to poke a pen in to dislodge them and usually end up with a cloud of powdered glucose over my jumper or trousers, makes it look like I've been snorting cocaine.
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All this, and then to find that the last two have been there since the year dot and are now as hard as granite.:)
 
therower said:
Hi @Tony337 . Keep up the banter;););).

Tony wanders off to contemplate the life of jelly babies. So sweet, so innocent, so tasty. Will they ever realise their life saving attributes :):)
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Err have you ever looked at the ingredients on the packet?
Not for the feint hearted........
 
Tony337 said:
Err have you ever looked at the ingredients on the packet?
Not for the feint hearted........
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Hey we are T1 diabetics, I don't think we do feint hearted.
Ingredients???????????? They taste good that's all that matters.
My daughter loves jelly, haven't got the heart to tell her the ingredients even when she's being a real pain in the ar*e :)
 
Tony337 said:
So @therower theres no treat in treatment......
Am I a little more laissez-faire because of 44 years of type 1ing or is that just a bit smug?
Either way I shall continue with my jelly babies and occasional midget gem (now they are lethal as I don't know how many I've had because I shove the little buggers in by the handful!) and leave you chalk lovers to your own devices......

ermmm I hope everyone knows this is a nice friendly good natured bit of old fashioned banter?

Hope so

Tony wanders off contemplating the meaning of life.......
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I'd never thought of midget gems so youve been really bad to put the idea in my mind
 
@SueJB . Lest we forget Haribos. Another firm favourite with others around these parts. Not to my liking though and besides that the grandkids would devour them. It's a full time job limiting the jelly babies to Daddy jelly baby, mummy jelly baby, brother and sister jelly baby on each visit.:):):)
 
Well this just is like being sent to hell. Haribo and @Tony337 midget gems, I wish I had amnesia.
 
Everyone has contributed brilliantly on how to treat a hypo. I think the original question has happily gone by the board. I still wonder though.
 
Tony337 said:
Err have you ever looked at the ingredients on the packet?
Not for the feint hearted........
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I have vaguely looked at the ingredients. Got as far as thinking "not vegetarian" and stopped thinking.
The same is true for midget gems and hariboo.

My vegetarianism has its limits though - if I was limited to porcine insulin, I would take it.
Thankfully, not a decision I have to make.
 
Does anyone else have a problem that "other people" (well, in my case my husband) eat their emergency carb? I used to have a whole lot of boiled sweets left permanently in the car, but they got eaten (admittedly he stopped when I winged horribly). Now I just have the dreaded glucotabs which are a) obviously diabetic and b) not very nice, so my carb is safe. :)
And to be fair to my husband he has rescued me from a number of hypos (I've lost count), some of them serious, and wouldn't deliberately deprive me of sugary goodness.
 
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