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Do you currently have a low treatment close enough to your bed that you do not have to get out of bed at night when treating a low?
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This question got messed up. I was answering another question and yes, I do have nighttime low remedies next to the bed.
I have sugar in the raw packets next to me in bed. However, I prefer to get up and walk 12 feet to a fridge with grape juice in it just for my lows.
No, my CG M wakes me up way before I have to eat something immediately
I have a bottle of Trader Joe’s Mesquite Honey next to my bed. I use it frequently. Trader Joe’s Mesquite Honey is one of the best I’ve ever tasted.
Yes, I do. I keep peanut butter M&Ms in the drawer beside my bed.
Bahaha. I would eat those before bed time.
Absolutely yes! Glucose gummies are my saviors!
I have a bottle of glucose tablets in my nightstand drawer.
Me too!
I keep a bottle of glucose tabs in my nightstand, with two tabs on top of it. It’s become a routine, though I only use about a half of one once a week or so.
Glucose tabs and gummies on nightstand.
Since using the Tandem T:slim X2 with Control IQ, it has been so long since I’ve had a nighttime low that I don’t need to keep anything nearby.
Containers with granulated sugar (from sugar beets) and water are always nearby.
I never have been so low I couldn’t get glucose tabs. Bg once was down in 40s but I was aware enough to call wife to use Injection.
I’m the caregiver for 4 year-old so the low treats are in the linen closet right outside their bedroom that I can grab on my way in
Glucose tabs and dates
Absolutely! I have a small jar of jelly beans on my bedside table. My CGM will alert me in time to walk into the bathroom (where I have a bigger jar of jelly beans!), but when I’m sleepy it’s much more convenient to not have to get out of bed.
I answered yes, but I get up anyway and brush my teeth when this happens. Maybe a little OCD, but it has always seemed appropriate to me.
i seldom have lows at night. When I do, I like to get up and follow my my bg for a while to figure out if it was a compression low or perhaps something that requires more than a half of a glucose tab. This means I can go back to sleep with more confidence.
Yes! I keep a sleeve of glucose tabs within reach so I don’t have to do anything but roll over and munch. Then swish a mouthful of water and go back to sleep. Sometimes there is a repeat. If I have an all veggie dinner, low in fat, lows just happen.
Yes, juice boxes.
Yes, I have a bottle of glucose tabs on the nightstand next to my side of the bed.
SKITTLES! I swallow them whole with some water… that way I don’t have to brush my teeth after treating. My dentist noticed some cavities and I suspected it’s from my treating nocturnal lows. Haven’t had any issues since…
SKITTLES! I swallow them whole with some water… that way I don’t have to brush my teeth after treating. My dentist noticed some cavalries and Ali suspected it’s from my treating
What a great idea! I always hate eating sugar and not brushing.
I always keep a can or bottle of sprite. Early on I would run to kitchen to get orange juice till the time my legs quit working and crawled to kitchen and tried reach shelf with juice and spilled it everywhere. Not doing that again.
Yes, but no. We keep a tube of glucose tabs in our son’s (11.5 years old), but rarely use them. We awaken to Dex/Nightscout/Sugarmate alarms. In a spare room, next to our son’s room, we have a tiny refrigerator which holds a bottle of juice and a jar of peanut butter. That combo is our tried and true treatment for nighttime lows.
Tabs if not real low, but lower than I want. Honey packets if I need a ‘quick’ recovery.
Yes, I keep four glucotabs under my pillow so I don’t disturb my husband opening a container.
Yes. I keep a stash of Glucose gummies, Transcend glucose gel paks, apple juice boxes and a Baqsimi. This way I am prepared because the kitchen and my diabetes supply closet are downstairs from the bedroom. I avoid using chalky glucose tablets – they make me gag.
I said other. While I have fat acting carbs at my bedside, frequently I need to add protein to keep my bg’s up. I go to the kitchen to get some pb&j in those cases.
Of course not, I keep it all “buried” in the box that I have hidden in in a pile in the garage -SSI- !!! Come on, where the heck else would you put them but, directly within E-A-S-Y reach???
Getting out of bed so I wake all the way up speeds up my recovery from a low. Waking up cuts my recovery time by 1/2-1/3.
Using insulin is always with a risk of hypoglycemia (and some meds). Prior to pumping I had plenty of lows but with a CGM able to control those. I use lemonade (mixed in old Gatorade bottles) to quickly recover, thus a bottle is on my nightstand (have a bottle in my lunchbox, have carried a bottle while performing some strenuous tasks). The options are to be comfortable with higher levels (and concerns of physical problems) or attempt as close to normal levels as possible realizing how close to “too low” we go. Depending and comfort in a CGM, and tools for protection allowed my a1Cs at 5.3, 5.3 (injections) and the most recent 5.7 (on Medtronic780G). But injecting manmade insulin it’s not “if” levels fall, it’s when (keep a tube of tablets in my pocket “in case.”).
I was always in the (bad) habit of getting up and going to the kitchen for juice to treat lows. Then while doing this last year, I passed out in the kitchen, fell and broke my foot= lesson learned ! I now have glucose tablets, plus a small bottle of sweetened soda along with a water bottle to rinse mouth afterwards by my bedside.