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Hubby blood sugar

Trudy1021
Trudy1021

Good ole health anxiety strikes again. Hubby has type 2 diabetes and his sugar dropped in the middle of the night he was drenched in sweat. I checked it it was 67 I ran and got OJ half a bacon cheeseburger, and a banana its been like a half hour his sweats have stopped but 1 min the meter said 87 now it says 75. Should we wait longer to check it he says he feels better.

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Tired
Tired
Hope he is ok now. That is scary.
rmb
rmb
My husband is a Type 1 diabetic since childhood so he’s had many years of experience knowing when he needs to “correct” when his blood sugar is too high or low. Sometimes if it dips really low, like 45, he is nonsensical and so I have to coax him into drinking juice or a coke or squeeze a glucose packet into his mouth but those times are rare since he’s got a pretty good handle on his diet and monitoring himself.

I say that because I’m not sure if you are monitoring your husband because he’s cognitively compromised at 67-75 or if you are just taking over his diabetes management?
Trudy1021
Trudy1021
Ty yes he is turns out he took his insulin but only ate a couple mouthfuls of food and then went to bed he didn't feed his insulin like he should have.
rmb
rmb
It’s tough to account for all the variables
and fine-tuning when to eat, how much, too much insulin, not enough insulin. Hope he’s doing better.
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