What's the craziest thing you have ever had to eat to get your blood sugar up?
I quit using glucose tabs a long time ago...just couldn't take the taste anymore. I usually have juice at home and use sport gels when out. But between me and my daughter (who also has type 1) we have had a few occasions where we were caught without enough glucose tabs or juice and have had to resort to whatever we could get our hands on. One time we were caught in a traffic jam for four hours and had already used our sugar stores during our pumpkin hunting that day. We were getting pretty nervous after about two hours, having already cut back on the basal, when my daughter continued to go lower and lower. I was just about to begin wandering through the line of cars to see if anyone had any juice boxes...when a couple of kids came wandering down the roadside offering apples and cookies for sale!
So, have you ever had to resort to something out of the ordinary in the heat of the battle?
So, have you ever had to resort to something out of the ordinary in the heat of the battle?
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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on -
One time we were having a band practice session and I'd worked all day and played golf beforehand and was having a hell of a time tuning my guitar and realized I needed something and the drummer was like "We don't have a lot but help yourself" so I went up and MrsDrummer walked into her kitchen to find me squirting their chocolate sauce down my hatch...
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Permalink Reply by Team Low-Tech on -
Now that's what I'm talking about! I can remember when first diagnosed and riding on a diabetes charity ride...needing fast carbs and getting to every rest stop and finding low-carb foods for type 2's and having to scarf down whatever they had...in bulk! I was still on shots then and had a hard time figuring out how much to cut back before riding.
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Permalink Reply by latvianchick on -
ha ha! Chocolate high fat - won't work so quickly, but I guess desparate means ....
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Permalink Reply by Erin Huff Carper on
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Straight up maple syrup, because we were moving and that's all we had left after having cleaned out the fridge. Then I realized it was sugar free, and wouldn't help at all! So I had to grab the regular syrup and drink that too. Ew. Sometimes diabetes definitely gets interesting! It makes for good stories, though! :)
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Permalink Reply by Team Low-Tech on
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Ouch...that's a bunch of maple syrup! Reminds me of the three food groups from the movie Elf...candy, candy corn and syrup!
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Permalink Reply by Emily Coles on -
I watch it every December :)
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Permalink Reply by K_La on -
maple syrup is my fave low sugar fix. (it is so delicious, but too high in sugar to eat normally). i usually have a teaspoon or two and i'm good after 15 min.
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Permalink Reply by Natalie ._c- on -
I have a sample size bottle of maple syrup on by bedside table. But I'm not sure I could open it if I were really low. I once had a real-size bottle of maple syrup, but it went moldy before I could even get a decent start on it. The stuff IS good! :-)
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Permalink Reply by latvianchick on
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Hoooooo yeeeesss! I have been known to go into my local supermarket (ASDA, American equivalent WALMART) and go into a hypo and pick something - ANYTHING up and start to eat it before I get to the checkout. Most of the regular shop staff are used to me by now and let me carry on, I recover and then go and pay with the packets already opened. Perhaps the weirdest things I come out with are a box of sugar lumps - and weird sweets which I would not normally like when I am that bad!
I was at the diabetes clinic a few months ago and I went hypo during the consultation - it seemed (to me) that the doctor was sitting outside the window of the room. I had this little bottle of Lucozade which is like a glucose shot bottle. I necked that down and it did not work! Oddly I started shaking violently and my heart rate was weird, yet I did not seem to get any better! I do not usually have the tremors any more. I was pouring sweat and felt really awful. The doctor went off to find another doctor because it would not go up, in fact it was going down. And the doctors both came back and looked at the Lucozade bottle to discover that it was LO SUGAR and actually a high caffeine shot!
I wrote to the company and they said sorry that I did not like their product but offered me nothing by way of recompense and said that they would look into changing the label (they have not!). Silly thing is, Lucozade is known as a glucose drink so I bought it on the assumption that it would be a good think to have on my person. I had no idea that there were other things that Lucozade makes, but the label was exactly the same as their glucose bottles.
Moral of the story is, always read the labels!
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