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Permalink Reply by Heidi Rogers on February 2, 2010 at 2:09pm

My daughter has had to use the glucagon A LOT!!! She is a T1 and epileptic, so her doctor recommends her sugars ALWAYS stay above 100. Sometimes for her is she drops below that she of course feels low and somedays it will trigger her into an epileptic seizure.

We like the glucagon... she has never gotten real sick after wards and her sugars don't spike to bad. We only have to use it is she is non responsive.. she will be awake and moveable, but she will not respond to us. So for us its a MUST have..

Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Marsha Krueger on February 2, 2010 at 2:54pm

Sorry I don't mean to be ignorant was is a 50? We do it a little different in Canada.

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Permalink Reply by FatCatAnna on February 2, 2010 at 8:17pm

Hey Marsha - the numbers they use in the US are mg/dl (we use mmol/l). When you see a reading of 50 mg/dl - just divide it by 18 - and you'll get the figure in mmol/l that we're used to - which would be 2.7 mmol/dl
Hope that makes sense (I was always bad at arthmetic!).

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Permalink Reply by Christian on February 2, 2010 at 11:29pm

I was home alone a couple years ago and my blood sugar was dropping very fast (on the dexcom), I tested my blood sugar somewhere under 50, and treated with some GU (25g carb, acts very fast), still going down 10 min later, take another GU, still going down another 10min later. At this point I felt like I was about to pass out so I grabbed my glucagon and injected it into my stomach. Shortly I started feeling better as my blood sugar came back to the mid 100's and stayed around there. I did not have side effects of high blood sugars later.

I'm very glad I had the glucagon.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart on June 27, 2010 at 6:53pm

A 20 oz BOTTLE of soda in your car always. Cake icing tubes work nicely too, but with the soda you can see something disappearing, the icing, not so visable.

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Permalink Reply by Carolyn Deans on February 9, 2011 at 10:59am

Just wanted to say that I tried this for the first time today and it worked excellently. I had been very low during the night and also with some kind of stomach bug, so was vomiting. I had kind of leveled out around 40 and stayed there for several hours.

I am 30 years old, 135 lbs. I diluted the glucagon as per instructions and then used a U-100 syringe to take 15 units. This raised my BG to the 130-140 range, where it remained constant for an hour (maybe 90 mins?) before dropping again.

Of course, I lowered my basal and tried other things after that, but the glucagon was enough to really get me out of the horrible low and stabilized long enough to figure out what to do.

It did not spike my blood sugar higher than 130/140.

I did vomit violently for a while after taking it, but I was also vomiting before taking it, so I have no idea whether the glucagon was a contributing factor in that.

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Permalink Reply by Tom T on February 9, 2011 at 2:45pm

This is what I would do in such a situation where I was <50 and couldn't get it up. You don't need much of the glucagon to raise you and it acts fast. Some of the artificial pancreases in development are bihormonal, so they deliver minute doses of glucagon as you would insulin. The side effects for a small dose would be much less severe than the whole dose, possibly none if you use a very small amount. I'm hopeful that a more stable glucagon will come on the market so we can have more control than just insulin. Some companies are working on it, but that doesn't seem to mean much these days...

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Permalink Reply by Jax on February 9, 2011 at 11:41am

I too had to use my glucagon pen on Friday. I was 40 for hours even after glucose tablets, soda, etc. I turned down my basal, but that takes 2 hours ish to really help. I finally used the pen since I was alone and after 1 hr finally went to 100. It was very strange. I don't have CGM and don't plan on getting one any time soon. I was nauseated at 40 but was fine once I finally came up.

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Permalink Reply by Duchess on February 9, 2011 at 11:46am

I find glucose tablets way too slow if I'm very low. By far the best thing I know to get your BS up fast is Lucozade. It's a good idea to keep some in the car. Some supermarkets do their own brand of glucose drinks which are much cheaper.

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Permalink Reply by Jax on February 9, 2011 at 2:50pm

Good to know!

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