Sarah Howard
Sarah Howard (nee Tackett) has dedicated her career to supporting the T1D community ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Manager of Marketing at T1D Exchange.
Sarah and her husband live in NYC with their cat Gracie. In her spare time, she enjoys doing comedy, taking dance classes, visiting art museums, and exploring different neighborhoods in NYC.
I said 70-76, I try, when possible to treat a low sugar with dried apricots or dates, if I catch it in the 70’s it works. Anything below that I have to eat a chalky glucose tab
There are lots of things to eat that metabolize faster than dried apricots and taste way better than chalky dry glucose tabs. Fruit leather or individual servings of gummy fruit snacks work well for me.
I prefer sugar cubes in empty bg strip containers. I also carry cubes in empty pill bottles. Fast to dissolve, and it takes only 2 or 3 cubes (8 to 12 grams sugar) and a few minutes, no longer than 15 to get my blood glucose levels back to normal. I’ve got them in my backpack, coat pocket, at bedside, and always carry one small container of 3 cubes in my jeans. Those tubes of glucose contain way too much sugar. And I found sugared soda pop is way too dilute.
Actually it’s 70 mg. I got confused. 90 mg is point which I have alarm set to warn me that bg is getting low.
I put 60 to 64 but start getting alarms at 74.
Dates make my BG soar. But dried figs are 👍 great.
I answered the question incorrectly. I put 85-89 but 85 is what I have my alarm set to go off at. My real answer should have been 70-74.
I use 70 because that is as low as the device will let you set it. I would likely use 60 if I had that option.
I got my answer wrong. I use metric so my answer is 4.5 times 18 gives 81
I use the standard 70 for lows alarms mostly to match my endo’s reports. I did use 80-85 for low alarms because my T1D is ‘brittle’ (very rapidly rises and falls sometimes with no apparent reason). The number of alarms drove me nuts, so I went back to 70.