Was out with my 3 yo daughter and 11 yo god child in the store this morning and felt my vision changing. Tested! 47! Lowest ever. Scarey. Started shaking when I realized. Ate a few pieeces of candy, some chips and a couple of cookies. Way overshoot!! Stupid me. Am going to be high again soon, despite taking some extra humalog to cover all those carbs... Scarey to be out with kids and going low like that. Am not in my normal environment and don't have my normal food! Would be better not to eat (just take basal) in this situation... but I'm a sucker when there's yummy stuff nearby (that I would never keep in my own house), and am not used to adjusting for it. Nearly 24 weeks pregnant and insulin resistance after increasing dramatically seems to be decreasing again If I keep this up I'm going to kill or seriously hurt the baby! Some mother I am. Feeling like crap now and just curling up in a ball and sleeping. Can't really do that, in case I'm high or low again soon. :( Darn! And I sure feel like swearing much more than that!
Are you on MDI or a pump? I had really bad lows the whole time I was pregnant, struggled to keep my blood sugar high enough up until about 36 weeks, then I finally started getting more resistent. The baby is going to take all it can from what you eat, which is one reason D is harder to manage while pregnant. If you aren't on a pump you might think about it. I wish I had been when I was pregnant years ago, even if the technology wasn't as good then as it is now. Injections are hard, once its given there's no taking it back and your stuck with it. One of the big things I love about my pump, cause I can drop very easily. Its much easier to make corrections and to suspend or decrease amounts if needed.
You're a wonderful mother & all is fine. A quickly corrected low is nothing & you'll just test a bit more to prevent any future lows. I carry jelly beans with me everywhere. They're in my purse, car, desk, nightstand. When I'm low, there's always temptation around. Must be another condition to add to Murphy's Law:) Once I pop a few jelly beans, the shakiness & hunger subside. I react quickly to glucose.
Is a pain to be constantly adjusting doses!
Hey,
I used to have problems with lows and over correcting, i'd then spend much of the day correcting the high, going low and round and round we go..
I can go down to 25 and still be having conversations and not realising I am though, although my warning signs have improved dramatically on the pump, perhaps because the onset of lows in slower and I can pick up on them more quickly.
Anyway, I fixed the issue by being very disciplined when correcting lows, I know we panic and get flooded with adrenalin and
have to consume everything with glucose in it right away, but it is best to try and not to panic have 15-20g of fast acting carbs. I find lucozade or jelly beans work quick enough, we also have Jelly Babies here in the UK and I know that 5 of those will raise my blood sugar enough, I then wait 15 minutes, retest if it hasn't risen, I have another 15g, wait another 15 minutes and so on.
I know this approach sounds annoying, but it saves from rebound high blood sugars and adopting it shaved 1% off my HBa1c.
Good luck with the pregnancy,.