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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I use them all. I use an app when I’m eating out. I use labels when at home. If not on the app I estimate.
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      I generally do a very rough guess of carbs and correct if needed by adding more insulin for an also rough guess for effect of fat and protein later. My alert is set at 130 to remind me so I don’t get too high. I watch arrows a lot. I have had individual sensors lately that are not accurate. This can throw me off, where the sensor reading will be going up fast at say 180 and I will test my blood and it is 130. Sometimes I will have already corrected for the 180. This can cause a very rough day having to feed the insulin. I am hoping sensors will continue to get more accurate. So much depends on it especially with the algorithm. I usually don’t wait for my algorithm to correct because it will let my bg get too high. I know I’m supposed to let the algorithm do its thing but my goals are more strict. I am on G7 and Omnipod 5. I would like to be able to set my target at 100.
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      I should have clicked the fourth option. I use the labels if available. If not, I estimate.
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      47 years ago i had my pregnancies and didnt hear about her carrying T1D antibodies but i did have concerns about my child having diabetes. When she was about 12 there was a study to see her chance of developing diabetes ,this blood test was negative. 2 of my grandchildren have been tested and were negative . At the time of my pregnancies i had diabetes for 10 years
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I use the nutrition labels as a starting point. For home made foods or for restaurant meals, my wife who was a nutritionist, helps come up with a carb estimate. Then there are times that I just have to take a wild ass guess. I have collected a list of over a hundred common foods that I eat and I keep that keep that list in a notes app on my phone right next to my T-slim app. I often check the nutrition labels for things on my list to see if the recommended carb levels for that item have changed. Then I adjust my list as needed. I also check my BG response to listed carbs I eat. I have adjusted some items over time. So, I would call this approach a hybrid. As Daniel Bestvater notes above, we are only controlling one item out of 6. Your mileage may vary.
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      Not really trigger words as much as not understanding or even aware of the difference between Type 1 and Type 2.
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I count carbs, acc. To Mabel if I have, look up nutrition for items, and estimate if needed. Used to always cook myself till this yr, now in apt where food is provided, so now looking up a lot to estimate. Going pretty well
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      Years ago I used to calculate out carbs with a scale & book. Then I realized it didn’t seem to make a huge difference. I had many discussions with an endocrinologist friend about this topic and we both found that highly accurate carb counting didn’t seem to make much difference. As long as you are in the ballpark. I think we need to realize the pancreas produces at least 6 BG regulator hormones and we are only injecting one, insulin. So we need to do our best but not stress over it. This is at least why 2 identical meals can result in two different BG levels.
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      It depends on the situation. At home I calculate carbohydrate with my scale. At restaurants it depends on if they have nutritional information available. If they don't have it, I estimate. The same with eating with other people's houses even while using my scale.
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      If I have a label I use it. Mostly I guesstimate then use the info the next time I eat the same meal. I am a big eater with no weight problem. When I go out, usually 2-3 times per week, I have to put in 90 grams of carbs, then add if not enough because I will go low before I go high. The other times, when eating at home, I eat less. Exercise is key. I just got back from 3 trips in 6 weeks. To Sicily, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and to visit family in Baltimore. Only in Baltimore did I have issues with BG, because I wasn’t walking as much, although I did walk 1.5 miles most days. A1C when got home was 6.3. Time in range about 75%, down from usual 85%. I’ll take that. Not traveling for another year probably and will get back on track.
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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?

    Home > LC Polls > 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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    54 Comments

    1. M C

      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.

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    2. Amy Schneider

      In college (50 years ago), I kept candy under my pillow since I slept in the top bunk.

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    3. Sharon Gerdik

      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.

      3 years ago Log in to Reply
    4. Ahh Life

      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. 🙈

      3 years ago Log in to Reply
    5. Mike S

      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.)

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    6. CandyM

      I keep juice boxes right by the bed for a quick fix. No need to refrigerate and they are good for several weeks.

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    7. Carol Meares

      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.

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    8. kilupx

      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.

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      1. Karen Newe

        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.

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      2. Kris Sykes-David

        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!

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      3. sweet charlie

        I do it like Kris…

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    9. Pam Taylor

      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.

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    10. Drina Nicole Jewell

      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 🤣

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    11. Jane Cerullo

      Glucose tabs and gummies on nightstand. Candy in nightstand drawer.

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    12. ELYSSE HELLER

      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.

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    13. Elle Hamann

      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. 😊

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    14. Lawrence S.

      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

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    15. Annie Wall

      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.

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    16. Nevin Bowman

      No, because I want to be awake if I’m treating a low, otherwise I may dream I’m low when I’m not 🙂

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    17. Lyn McQuaid

      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?

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      1. Sherolyn Newell

        I haven’t had any trouble at CVS. My grocery store only had one flavor and only a couple of bottles.

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      2. AnitaS

        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.

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    18. Jim Andrews

      Since going on the Tandem T:slim X2 pump with Control IQ and Sleep Mode, I do not have night time lows anymore.

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    19. Robin Melen

      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.

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      1. Becky Cain

        I do the same thing except I eat two pb crackers.🙂

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    20. Sue Martin

      I keep yogurt in the fridge, so I have to get out of bed to get it.

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    21. Trisha Oldenkamp

      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.

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    22. Katrina Mundinger

      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.

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    23. kim bullock

      My mini fridge is near imy bed were my juice is.

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    24. Sherolyn Newell

      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.

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      1. JuJuB

        I keep my smarties tablets under my pillow!

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      2. AnitaS

        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.

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      3. Anna Kiff

        Ahh so sorry to hear about your best friend. Time to rethink like you say, where to keep your hypo treats.

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    25. Eileen Wagner

      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.

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      1. Mary Dexter

        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.

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    26. Maureen Helinski

      glucose tablets are always near me.

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    27. lis be

      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

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      1. Anna Kiff

        Interesting on the compression lows with the Libre2. I have yet to experience those since being on the Libre2.

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    28. Mary Dexter

      4.23oz juice boxes and glucose tablets

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    29. Nicholas Argento

      Juice boxes at the ready…

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    30. Melissael

      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.

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    31. Kristen Clifford

      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

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    32. Greg Felton

      I mean, what else could you put in a nightstand?

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    33. Tina Roberts

      Oh heck yes!!

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    34. Carole Ludwig

      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.

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    35. Janice Bohn

      Glucose tabs on nightstand

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    36. Janis Senungetuk

      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.

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    37. AnitaS

      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.

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    38. ConnieT1D62

      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.

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    39. LizB

      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.

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    40. Steven Gill

      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.

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    41. Janelle Schmitz

      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.

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    42. Cheryl Weaver

      Often, but not all the time.

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    43. Jeff Balbirnie

      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

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