I drink naked juice with 34 carbs and eat 39 carbs froozen LeanCuisine!!?!
Am frustrated!!!
What to do!!! Up to the vending machine buying twix or whatever!!!
Okay - had to go to my page to convert your 60 mg / dl (it’s 3.3 mmol/l). You need more sugar - e.g. juice, Coke - whatever is high sugar in your vending machine. Do you not keep Dex4 or some other high glucose sugar at your desk? Good thing to keep - and take with you if you’re going into a meeting (incase you go hypo). Test your blood again - after 15 minutes - and see where you are. You might go shooting up abit high - but then you either have to do a correction with fast acting insulin. I didn’t look at your Page before entering this info to you - so not sure what meds you take for your diabetes. I’ll check back later to see how you are doing.
More tips here - especially if you are planning on operating a vehicle.
Anna
Oh okay finally it is 125 mg/dl
After eating 34+39+46 = 119g carbs ! Oh my
Thanks Anna for your fast reply, am really desperate at this point! Should I bolus for the whole 119 carbs!!! Don’t think so, I will bolus for 60 and see!? Any advice!? Thx
remember the rule of 15:
when low- take 15 g of sugar and wait 15 minutes. Check Blood sugar again, and dose accordingly. If still low, then take another 15g, wait and check again.
Yes or eat my lunch with juice!!
Depending on how much insulin you have stacked up in your body - I’d forgo insulin for now. Check again in about 15-30 minutes - see how you are doing. Since you’re on a pump - you may just have to do a Bolus Correction - rather then a bolus for those carbs. You may be doing a roller coaster ride after that if you do bolus for that amount! Unless you like roller coaster rides that is?
I had actually come back to say the same thing as Lane (cute rat ) - about the 15g / 15 minute rule. So, retain that in your memory banks for future reference.
125 and now after giving 12 units of insulin (60 carbs) and testing it is 147mg/dl (after 40 minute)
Are you off your pump?
Now that it’s the day after, let’s talk glucose tablets as a stable, rapid way of returning to normal. Always with you. The Dex4 can be cut in half from 4 . Can measure their effect. Only glucose that doesn’t need filtering through all the other processes is a reliable means. Candies, juices, and food all have to be processed to glucose and it takes time. Depending on your weight, 15 gms is the MOST you need with testing after 15 min. & taking more then. For 175 lbs., 2.5 gms raises 10 mg/dl so 12.5gm raises 50 mg/dl.
Glad you survived it all with humor!
Yes I enjoy humor and the life with diabetes is an adventure with a funny unpredicted guy.
I do have the Glucose tablets and the drinks as well, but for some reason I thought using juice is better and saving the tablets when am away from any sugars and in need!!?? hmmm
Here’s what happens to me and you would have to figure out your weight and look up what amount of glucose takes you about 40 or 50 if you want to use glucose tabs…
If I go low I KNOW my brain is off a bit: I have a tendency to drink too much juice. It isn’t exactly an absolutely measured amount and in that condition I’m not good at measuring it. I’m also not good at finding out if the particular juice available is all glucose or some other sugar. I don’t like swinging.
So I did several trials with glucose tablets and found they raise me fast. With my lowered brain-ability I have only one thing to reach for. They’re in my pocket, my purse, the car, at my chair in front of the TV, and at the computer. The spot before my eyes, which I get if I go into the 30s, starts to disappear on counting 1000, 2000, 3000, at 4 seconds. Reliably, happened repeatedly.
It all depends on math and weight.
At 105 lbs, 1.5 gms raises you 10 mg/dl.
At 140 lbs, 2 gms raises you 10 mg/dl.
At 175 lbs, 2.5 gms raises you 10 mg/dl.
At 210 lbs, 3 gms raises you 10 mg/dl. You can figure it out from there on Excel.
At 105 lbs, 2 grams glucose raises me 13, 4 grams raises me 27, 6 grams raises me 40. Three half-tablets.
. And yes, my internist says to use juice! If I could carry 6 grams of juice to raise me 40 mg/dl, fine, but it’s not going to happen. At my weight, 3 half-tablets of glucose. I count them as I take them: 13, 27, 40 (mg/dl). If I’m lower than 40, then I need 4 halves to go up 53 mg/dl. You can set up a nice routine.
If I’m at 75 in the morning on arising, one half-tablet will return me to 88, which is fine before breakfast. That puts me where I will eat a normal breakfast amount, take a normal amount of bolus. I won’t wolf down as I have a tendency to do when I’m in the 70s.
Cheers! Here’s to our lives with glucose! Interstitial, blood, and tablets!
I just went through hours of classes to get on my pump so this is all fresh in my mind. They repeated over and over, treat a low BEFORE you eat a meal. That means, if your sugar is low, eat fifteen grams of sugar and wait fifteen minutes, repeat the process until it’s normal, and THEN eat your meal and give the correct insulin dose. It sounds nearly impossible because I know how it feels to be low. You’re in a HUGE hurry to make the damn feeling go away so you wanna eat everything you can get your hands on! 
But they say eating more carbs doesn’t make it go back to normal any faster, it just makes it go higher once they’re all absorbed.
EXACTLY, I will be like a hungry bear want to eat everything that I put my hand on!
Something to bear in mind when correcting lows is that while there will be an increase in 15 minutes, often the full effect isn’t seen for up to an hour. How we end up over-correcting & can result in being too high.
Glad Leona shared the formula because that one-size-fits-all "15 grams sugar " advice isn’t helpful. As Leona pointed out, grams of sugar effects people differently. If I ate 15 grams of sugar to correct a low, that would raise me 150 pts.