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Do you keep a low treatment close enough to your bed that you don’t have to get up at night when treating a low?
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Yes always. And the Omnipod remote so I can do a temporary basal.
I am awakened by internal alert or CGM alarm. 65yrs T1 & have never been unconscious. I must get up to test or treat a low. Kitchen is short walk away.
I keep a jar of gumdrops because they have no fat content, only sugar. I also keep a bottle of water bedside to rinse my mouth or just to stay hydrated. I am usually up once at night anyway; so this can all be done with the Abbott Freestyle Libre, candy if needed, a drink of water and trip to the bathroom. Be sure you keep treatments bedside and your cgm reader if that’s your cgm.
I actually want to get up and walk around a little bit to make sure I’m awake enough to be thinking straight after my Dexcom alarms for trending low.
I keep a roll of glucose tabs next to my bed, in the car, I my purse, next to my favorite reading chair. A roll of glucose is also in my pocket on work days. I frequently get up, but at times I wish to stay in bed, and only need the 4 carbs to the low.
Dex4 tube always on my night table or for that matter on my person never leave home without them. Admittedly ever since being on the Tandem pump and Dexcom G6 combo these two components and the basal IQ have proven extremely beneficial in all aspects of the word. 🤞 I haven’t had to resort to using any Dex4 in over 3 months I still keep them close by better safe then sorry.
Yes, glucose tabs are in my nightstand, but I usually get up for juice instead. Prefer the taste, and to be a bit awake to make sure I follow up if needed.
I always test before taking anything. I am almost always correct that I need something but a couple of times I have mistaken feelings of a high for a low. I used to have a glucometer with a built in light but my insurance made me change. Don’t want to awaken my spouse. Never had incidents that have concerned me while sleeping. No CGM.
I bought a little tiny fridge that I can keep little bottles or boxes of juice cold in.
Yes. Juice boxes on my bedside table. They don’t need refrigeration. Years ago I knew a lady who got up in the night to treat her low blood sugar and she fell and broke her arm.
I usually do. It’s about 80% of the time I do & 20% I don’t or I’ve run out of them and forgotten to replenish.
Ditto. I have a hard time remembering to replace!
Wow! After all these years, I answered no, since my current sleeping arrangements have no night stands nor tables near the bed. Plus, I have arthritis making the opening of anything (yes, anything!) a challenge of the most upright and dire importance. Glucose tablets nearby seem to be my best solution at this point, since most of those tubes are so old and worn that the lids barely stay on anyway. Any suggestions? ¯\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)_/¯
Hi Ahh Life
I don’t have personal experience, but creakyjoints.org has a number of suggestions, one of them being a:
dycem cone gripper (Dycem 50-1651B 2″ Non-Slip Cone-Shaped Bottle Opener).
They also recommended a rubber band. I _do_ have experience with using rubber bands to try and open jars and have never had good luck with them.
Because I had hand surgery recently, I have a small understanding how troublesome this is… would holding the jar with your knees and then using a sort of “full body jar opening” work? (I know that’s not descriptive enough, but I don’t know how to describe the contortions I tried with only one working hand… you may not have enough functional use of either hand to make this work, though.)
I wish you the best good luck for opening glucose tablet bottles!!! (or using juice boxes or whatever will work to keep you healthy!)
juice boxes are a constant night companion. on the road, I make sure i have something, often Starburst because they are portable, or soda. I have had to go out to the soda machines in the middle of the night in the past, when that machine would not accept my bill.
Oh nooooo.
Sugar packs in coffee service also help….
I have Welch’s Fruit Chews (2g/gummy) beside my bed. I just reach over and can easily get them. I also keep some in the attached bathroom just in case I’m very low and go there first to find carbs.
My answer is “sometimes”… If my blood is on the edge when I go to sleep, I put the bottle of glucose tablets on my nightstand. Otherwise, it just stays in my bag
I don’t keep anything *right* next to my bed, but my pantry is right outside my bedroom door, and it’s not that much further to the kitchen.