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Raising your blood sugar?

What do you recommend for a good, controlled way of bringing up low blood sugars in precise increments? My goal is to minimize the risk of overshooting with such things as fruit juice, coca cola, or chewable life savers. Glucose tablets that they sell at Walgreens and CVS seem to not work rapidly enough for me. Does anybody know of a product that will raise blood sugars almostly instantly and raise my sugar in small increments. I am looking to raise my sugar in about 8 mg/dl increments. Thanks for the suggestions.

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Cody Turner Permalink Reply by Cody Turner on August 9, 2008 at 12:05pm
I also got those little tubes of cake icing. Each tube has 12 grams of sugar in it. I have several different things I use for lows just because sometimes I get tired of the gel and tablets. Since I have my pump and the cgms I don't go low as often and a lot of times I can do a temporary basal rate reduction and prevent me from going low if I am headed that way.

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Karen Doering Permalink Reply by Karen Doering on August 9, 2008 at 7:11pm
My new thing is 9 twizzlers (bite size). Easy to chew up fast and raise my bgs fast as well. :)

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Steve RRR Permalink Reply by Steve RRR on August 9, 2008 at 7:47pm
A 4 gram glucose should raise your blood sugar about 12 points in 15 min.

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three1oh Permalink Reply by three1oh on August 9, 2008 at 8:41pm
individually wrapped twizzlers works well.. each one raised BG about 20. i also keep packs of mentos around. As a guy, one roll of fruit mentos fits perfect in my pocket.... mentos also allows me to quietly slip them in my mouth one at a time if i am in a social setting and feel my sugars dropping.

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Val Permalink Reply by Val on August 10, 2008 at 3:21pm
Just be sure to keep them away from the diet coke!

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