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Do you keep 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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Sometimes it’s like a bridge to help prevent my BG from going lower, when extremely low, by allowing me, more safely, to go take care of the BG with some juice. At other times, what I keep by the bed is the perfect amount to carry me to morning.
In college (50 years ago), I kept candy under my pillow since I slept in the top bunk.
I keep a zip lock bag of marshmallows next to my bed. I can even eat a couple while still lying down. It brings my BS up fairly quickly.
6 feet away. Just realized what a huge difference that 2 yards is — the difference between getting up and staying in bed. Perhaps I’ll re-arrange. 🙈
My answer should have been yes. A mini can of ginger-ale is always within arm’s reach. (I clicked the link in my email to answer yesterday’s question and didn’t realize it had jumped ahead to a different yes/no question.)
I keep juice boxes right by the bed for a quick fix. No need to refrigerate and they are good for several weeks.
Yes, most of the time, but many times I will prefer to get up and get juice to treat a low then swish my mouth out with water.
Doesn’t anyone else have to brush their teeth after eating sugar in bed? I have a roll of Necco wafers in my nightstand but I never use them. Since I know I will be brushing my teeth—or at least rinsing my mouth—after treating a low, I just leave 4 oz of juice or a juice box on the bathroom sink counter every night.
I do not get out of bed after I eat my gummies. I have been wondering how others deal with the dental part of nighttime lows. Yet I am not getting cavities, so far.
While listening to a diabetes podcast, the dentist being interviewed suggested swishing/drinking water after eating sugar tabs, etc., for a nighttime low. I always keep the tabs and a glass of water on my bedside table. I don’t have to wake up too much then!
I do it like Kris…
Glucose tablets are by the bed on my boyfriend’s side.table. He knows I am having lbs before the alarm sounds. I double check to know he’s correct.
I haven’t bedside table drawer filled with low snacks and protein bars and protein shakes. I also have a drawer in my dresser and a tote under my bed full of low snacks and protein snacks. I’m reading for the zombie apocalypse y’all 🤣
Glucose tabs and gummies on nightstand. Candy in nightstand drawer.
No, but I should. I had to get out of bed at 0100 hours last night to go into the kitchen to grab a box milk to correct a dropping blood glucose reading.
We (my son and I) tried that for awhile, but they kept disappearing…. so now they’re kept somewhere out of sight out of mind so that I can easily grab them on the way to his room and he can easily get them during the day but it would be conspicuous. 😊
I used to use fruit juice, but it upsets my stomach. My go to for the past 6 or so years has been honey. Works great, and I especially enjoy Trader Joe’s Mesquite Honey. One or two squeezes, and I’m good to go. zzzzzzz
Glucose gummies jar is right next to me. If I had to get up to treat a low, I’d never get back to sleep.
No, because I want to be awake if I’m treating a low, otherwise I may dream I’m low when I’m not 🙂
I have a bottle of glucose tablets on the bedside table and have been doing that for 30 years. However, I have noticed recently that I’m having trouble finding the big bottles in my local drug store and grocery store so I’m wondering if there’s a supply chain issue with glucose tablets?
I haven’t had any trouble at CVS. My grocery store only had one flavor and only a couple of bottles.
I know I have to buy six bottles at a time, but I get my glucose tabs from amazon. They always have flavors that are difficult to find in a drug store. Plus those tabs have a long shelf life so I don’t worry about spoilage.
Since going on the Tandem T:slim X2 pump with Control IQ and Sleep Mode, I do not have night time lows anymore.
Yes – peanut butter crackers, tiny apple juices and glucose tablets. I find that if my sugar is low-ish when I go to bed that if I have a cracker before I go to sleep I’m good for the night.
I do the same thing except I eat two pb crackers.🙂
I keep yogurt in the fridge, so I have to get out of bed to get it.
I keep it next to the bed but I get up to brush my teeth afterward. I don’t like having sugary taste in my mouth and I want to protect my teeth. With Loop I rarely have lows in the night like I did before.
My bedroom is such a strange shape that there is no room for a bedside table. I occasionally have a bottle of glucose tablets on the floor but they frequently end up underneath the bed. I do have some on the dresser, but most often I (stupidly) go downstairs because in my sleepy low sugar-ness I forget they’re there…
Have had many fewer on Medtronic Automode but will be switching soon to Dexcom and hopefully will be able to get a Tandem even though I have almost 3 years warranty left.
My mini fridge is near imy bed were my juice is.
I only have a small shelf about the headboard which is filled up with alarm clock, PDM, and CGM receiver. I have to get up and go to the chest of drawers. Until recently, I had an Irish wolfhound that would take anything that smelled like food, so a table by the bed was not an option. Sadly, I lost him at 12-years-old a couple months ago. So I guess I could rethink the table.
I keep my smarties tablets under my pillow!
You were blessed to have had your dog so long considering those very large dogs don’t generally live that long. Sorry for your loss.
Ahh so sorry to hear about your best friend. Time to rethink like you say, where to keep your hypo treats.
T1D of 40 years, of course I keep low snacks at my bedside. But in 40 years have I ever remembered to use them instead of stumbling to the kitchen? Of course not.
On my purse I have a dragon keychain whose purpose is to remind me of the glucose tablets attached to him, because when I am grocery shopping and go low I need to be reminded what to do.
glucose tablets are always near me.
I do have glucose right by the bed, but i usually have to get up to test it because i get a lot of compression lows with libre 2
Interesting on the compression lows with the Libre2. I have yet to experience those since being on the Libre2.
4.23oz juice boxes and glucose tablets
Juice boxes at the ready…
My son, age 15, sleeps through the dexcom alarm so I keep juice boxes in his bathroom and grab one on the way into his room.
Not right by my bed, but the pantry is right outside my bedroom door, and the fridge isn’t too far from there, so I never have far to go
I mean, what else could you put in a nightstand?
Oh heck yes!!
I keep glucose tabs and smarties on my bedside table. Also have a small bottle of apple juice in my bathroom. It only takes a couple of ounces to bring my BG up to an acceptable level. I usually try the juice first as it can be easily rinsed off my teeth.
Glucose tabs on nightstand
I keep a bottle of glucose tabs on the night table next to my side of the bed. One 4g tablet is usually enough. If I eat or drink anything else it interferes with the thyroid table I need to take two hours before getting up.
I have jelly beans and glucose tabs by my bed but rarely have to use them with using my CGM and pump. Years before using a CGM and pump AID system, my sugar sometimes plummeted so much that I wasn’t physically able to take sources of sugar without spilling them all over the floor and trying to pick up the pills while I was collapsed on the floor. CGMs and automated pumps have made such a difference in my life.
Yes – juice box apple juice, Transcend glucose gel packs, a ziplock baggie filled with gumdrops, and a vial of Baqsemi. All these live on top or in the drawer of my nightstand. Kitchen is downstairs and too far away to treat a bedtime low.
I have a bottle of glucose tablets and 1-2 Capri Sun pouches on my nightstand. I don’t have to use the Capri Sun often, usually 1-2 glucose tablets is enough. I also have a bottle of water.
Hmmm… In my old house I sold last year had glucose tablets on the night stand, with a coke underneath the bed at the head “just in case.” Wasn’t asked but a “hi-test” coke beneath the bathroom sink, on the floor outside the kitchen, on and under my work bench in my garage.
And yeas I’ve used them all through the years.
My son has T1D, not me. He does not wake up to his alarms, his dad or I do. He does have a mini fridge on his nightstand with juice boxes by his bedside, but typically we’ll just grab a juice box from the kitchen fridge before heading downstairs to his room. He does not have to get out of his bed or really even wake up – I think he can drink the juice in his sleep.
Often, but not all the time.
Of course! Bedside table, car, kitchen refrigerator, any place I go or might be that I can get a nasty surprise. Really easy to find a small bottle of normal (non diet) soda