Catsymoo
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- Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
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Hello,
Need some advice. My bloods hit 20s yesterday and I'm a frequent walker usually with no issues (walking usually gets my levels down quickly but no lingering after effects like this) so I'm baffled as to why my sugar levels are just absolutely plummeting. I seem really really sensitive to my bolus the last 10 hours.
My walk took me from 23 down to 17, so I took like 3 more units of bolus at 9:50pm and between 1 and 2am I had dropped from down to 6.9 and started to feel very unwell. Usually 3 units won't even budge a 17 for me. I ate some sweets and went down to 5.3 (I'm p sure my sensor is wrong because I had massive hypo symptoms). I ate two pouches of glucose gel because I just wanted to sleep honestly. Started rising about 3:30am and went to sleep.
At 6am I was up to 23 again so I took two units of novorapid which usually does very little.
I've plummeted again down to 10 which sounds good but it's going down too fast and I don't know why. I've never experienced this before.
The only thing I can think of is did I take my Lantus twice but I don't think so! My walk maybe was a little more intense than usual, I walked 2.5 miles in about an hour and my legs are definitely burning a bit today.
I've just eaten a cinnamon danish and have glucose gels next to me but this is so scary and weird for me and I'm worried I took 28 units of Lantus twice, but I've never done that and have a good memory of taking my meds (I take my basal and my vitamins and birth control all at the same time)
If that has happened, I just need to get through the next 24 hours right? My last bolus was 3 hours ago and it seems to have had a massive effect. Usually 2 units won't even cover me getting out of bed and going for my morning toilet adventure lol.
Need some advice. My bloods hit 20s yesterday and I'm a frequent walker usually with no issues (walking usually gets my levels down quickly but no lingering after effects like this) so I'm baffled as to why my sugar levels are just absolutely plummeting. I seem really really sensitive to my bolus the last 10 hours.
My walk took me from 23 down to 17, so I took like 3 more units of bolus at 9:50pm and between 1 and 2am I had dropped from down to 6.9 and started to feel very unwell. Usually 3 units won't even budge a 17 for me. I ate some sweets and went down to 5.3 (I'm p sure my sensor is wrong because I had massive hypo symptoms). I ate two pouches of glucose gel because I just wanted to sleep honestly. Started rising about 3:30am and went to sleep.
At 6am I was up to 23 again so I took two units of novorapid which usually does very little.
I've plummeted again down to 10 which sounds good but it's going down too fast and I don't know why. I've never experienced this before.
The only thing I can think of is did I take my Lantus twice but I don't think so! My walk maybe was a little more intense than usual, I walked 2.5 miles in about an hour and my legs are definitely burning a bit today.
I've just eaten a cinnamon danish and have glucose gels next to me but this is so scary and weird for me and I'm worried I took 28 units of Lantus twice, but I've never done that and have a good memory of taking my meds (I take my basal and my vitamins and birth control all at the same time)
If that has happened, I just need to get through the next 24 hours right? My last bolus was 3 hours ago and it seems to have had a massive effect. Usually 2 units won't even cover me getting out of bed and going for my morning toilet adventure lol.
