lyndanorvitch's Journal, 10 May 2018

Thinking of you and wishing you speedy recovery x 

You need to do a WOE that is right for you and you alone, whatever that might be, and stay healthy !!! 

Lyndanorvitch, coincidentally, I had a low of 56 today. That's an awful feeling! (I took too much insulin, which means I'm becoming a bit more sensitive to it than before I lost weight and began eating LCHF/keto.) Please let me know if you need help figuring this out. It sounds like this is the first time you've experienced a low. Is your diabetes diagnosis recent? Or did you recently change the dosage and/or type of any anti-hyperglycemic medication? Was your activity level higher than usual? If it's medication-related, there's a way to figure out your insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio, so that you don't take more short-acting insulin than your meal necessitates. You can read about insulin:carb ratio at https://www.diabetesdaily.com/learn-about-diabetes/insulin-101/what-is-an-insulin-to-carb-ratio/ 

Well, that kink didn't work! Googling "insulin to carbohydrate ratio" will lead you to the page at diabetesdaily.com. 

LINK, that LINK didn't work! Sheesh! 

For type 2 diabetics, food consumption rarely if ever causes low blood sugar. It's usually a case of too much medication relative to the amount of carbohydrate consumed. A quick fix is a teaspoon of honey, a couple of ounces of citrus juice, a small piece of candy. Toughing it out, because you don't know how low it might go, is not an option.