DEXTRO ENERGY TABLETS

Good afternoon,

The other day I bought a glucose pills box to trace the hypos of the Dextro Energy brand.

The box is 50 grams and will bring about 45 pills.

I would like to ask if someone from here uses them or has ever used them.

It is that yesterday I tried how quickly my glucose rises and took a couple of pills and, really, I did not produce great change in the levels.The truth is that I expected something faster and "blunt"

How many should be taken to overcome a hypo?

My endocrine has changed the guidelines with the slow and the fast and I am having hypos almost every day (I am eating more cookies and juices than when I was not diabetic): D

Thanks to everyone

I have some that each pill is equivalent to 0.1 gr of hydrates.Minimum I need 4 for a slight hypo

Hello, I have tested again a moment ago and with 2 pills at 15 minutes it has risen me approximately 30.
I suppose there will be many factors that influence, but of course it is more comfortable to carry than the typical juices, soft drinks and cookies that we have to have yes or yes when we leave home.

Sandman said:
Hello, I have tested a moment ago and with 2 pills at 15 minutes it has risen me approximately 30.
I suppose there will be many factors that influence, but of course it is more comfortable to carry than the typical juices, soft drinks and cookies that we have to have yes or yes when we leave home.

You will have to put how many grams of glucose brings by pill, I say.

@Sandman, if you have so many hypoglycemia, you have to regulate insulin.
If you wake up low, you will be too slow.
Talk to your doctor or educator to tell you how to adjust.
Normally it adjusts from one in one unit, and two days are expected to see the result.

@Regina, I've been with Novorapid for a month.Before having the fast I only put 17 of Abasaglar at night and in 3 years I never noticed any hiccups.
The fact is that in the morning I get up every day between 90-120
The hypos usually have them mostly between 4 to 6 in the morning.
The guideline I have is ABASAGLAR 14 units at 11 at night and 2-3-2 of Novorapid before meals.
Last Friday I was with my educator and told me that it doesn't matter what eate, that I can't change this guideline until the endocrine sees me at the end of January.
What I want to say is that it is not definitive, but I am scoring the meals and in January the endocrine will modify me as it is convenient according to the values ​​of the free sensor.
I am not very satisfied with that because yesterday, for example, I was all morning around 250-300 after breakfast and all afternoon over 180-200 after lunch and I cannot correct or increase the units to the rations thatGo to eat.
Before seeing the educator, if I was very high, I corrected me, but I told him and put a very bad face and told me that he was prohibited, that only the endocrine could modify me guidelines.That as it happened to me to do that.
It bothers me a lot because I want to be in good values ​​and it is impossible.I do not see receipt being 3 months with hypers and hypos every day until my doctor sees me again.

I am freaking out with your nurse.How will you not be able to modify guidelines according to your glycemia?What do you expect to see "nosuecuando" to the endocrine and he will change them?
The treatment of diabetes is self -managed.Specialists have to teach you how to handle the doses of the intakes and the response of glycemia but they cannot impose fixed doses, it is absurd.

@Sandman precisely the educator is to give us guidelines and teach us to rectify and modify the rapid and basal insulin according to our body changes needs.
You have left me with stone !!!

What you like as diabetic (because it is your body and your life) is to have the diabetes well controlled and that means being in normoglycemia values ​​as long as possible.

As you have read we all rectify when we need, we all change the guidelines according to the day we have.The endocrine reviews us, studies our patterns and advises us;The first weeks because we don't know, then we self -manage.

Do what you consider;I became independent of the endocrine and the educator at 3 months when I discovered this forum and I verified that the endocrine only tests and error based on the values ​​that I gave it.

For hypos, the time of the morning would change;I do not know Abasaglar but surely peak at 5 o'clock and that's why you have lows until your body goes back alone.

What a barbarity of educator ... (for calling her somehow because if that is to educate that God comes and see it).
As they tell you, of course you have to correct and try until you have what keeps you at good levels.You will not be high months, with its risks, waiting for an appointment with the endocrine, it is absurd.
One thing.It doesn't fit me much that you can be between 200 and 300 and then hip at night.You have a sensor, when you let you know about Hicm, have you checked it with the glucometer?You will know that they give notice of false hypos due to crushing, to see if they are not going to be real.If they are, I would try to get the abasaglar in the morning.I do it and I do very well.

Returning to the fast: you have to adjust the dose to the HC rations that eat.The fixed guideline makes no sense.And adjusting to be between 70 and 180 maximum.Do not wait for January, start trying and asks here (and goes from that "educator")

@Ruthbia @ENSALADA What happens is that I still don't know my ratio units/rations.
Eye that I am not afraid to try, that in fact during the first 3 weeks I have been doing it more or less according to what I ate, uploading or going down some unit and there, and I get a diabox glyc of 5.9%(I know this is not very accurate, but I take it more or less as a reference)
Right now it is impossible for me to maintain good values ​​when I cannot even correct after meals.
It is as I tell my wife: the fear of deteriorating my kidneys, eyes and heart scares me the endocrine in his consultation.

I subscribe what the companions tell you.What the educator told you is crazy.If it were you, I would use common sense and adjust, especially when you have already done it alone in the past.You can't be like this until January.

Regarding the glucose pills you have to look at the grams that each pill carries because there are very little.To trace an hypo, about 12 - 15 grams of glucose are usually needed, also depending on the seriousness of the same and other factors.For example, those that I have have almost 4g each pill and, as a general rule, I never have to take more than 3.

@Sandman, and of course you can correct when you are in high values, if you do not correct you will not be able to adjust well.
Try to see what a fast unit lowers you when you are above 200., A fast unit usually goes down about 50 glucose, but you have to try in each case..

@Sandman to calculate your ratio you just have to write down your glycemia before a meal, carbohydrates, insulin and measure your blood glucose at 2 hours.
Example: delivery of 95mg/dl, like 30 g of HC (1 vegetable dish is approx 1 ration (= 10g HC), meat or fish, and a piece of large fruit are about 20 g of HC), I put 2 units offast.At 2 hours I am in 110., my ratio is 3: 2, 1 insulin unit metabolizes 15 g of HC.
If at 2 hours I am at 173mg/dl is that I have fallen short, and I had to have put 3 units quickly, I correct and for the next one I know that my ratio is 1: 1. (3: 3).

Do it for each meal because it changes between breakfast, food and dinner for a few days and then you will see how it is more or less maintained.And with time you will do it by eye.

Also keep in mind that fats and protein rise at 4 hours, so sometimes we have to rectify.

@Sandman: Diabox can be very helpful to improve your control.In addition to the glyc, look what letters come out in PGS and GVI.I have little with this app but I am excited!I am a veteran diabetic with "new shoes"

salad said:
I'm flipping with your nurse.How will you not be able to modify guidelines according to your glycemia?What do you expect to see "nosuecuando" to the endocrine and he will change them?
The treatment of diabetes is self -managed.Specialists have to teach you how to handle the doses of the intakes and the response of glycemia but they cannot impose fixed doses, it is absurd.

Sorry, that I just remembered something that the educator told us.To a comment from my wife commenting that some diabetic friend ever corrected after the meal, the educator told us quietly if she had high blood glucose that did not correct with insulin, that she simply drink a lot of water until she went down.
Imagine the face that remained.
All that was in the appointment where Rations, Hydrates and others explained to me.
So that I want to know the rations or grams of hydrates that carries a food if I cannot modify the dose of insulin that I am going to wear.

The one who told you about the water was the one that explained the issue of portions?
For the dowers you can also try to take a sugar over, for 21 years it is what has always worked for me.

ricki21 said:
@sandman: diabox can be very helpful to improve your control.In addition to the glyc, look what letters come out in PGS and GVI.I have little with this app but I am excited!I am a veteran diabetic with "new shoes"

PGS I always have it in A- or A+ and GVI in C/D/E, it depends on the day

sandman said:

salad said:
I am flipping with your nurse.How will you not be able to modify guidelines according to your glycemia?What do you expect to see "nosuecuando" to the endocrine and he will change them?
The treatment of diabetes is self -managed.Specialists have to teach you how to handle the doses of the intakes and the response of glycemia but they cannot impose fixed doses, it is absurd.

Sorry, that I just remembered something that the educator told us.To a comment from my wife commenting that some diabetic friend ever corrected after the meal, the educator told us quietly if she had high blood glucose that did not correct with insulin, that she simply drink a lot of water until she went down.
Imagine the face that remained.
All that was in the appointment where Rations, Hydrates and others explained to me.
So that I want to know the rations or grams of hydrates that carries a food if I cannot modify the dose of insulin that I am going to wear.

Do not pay attention to him;That lady is neither educator nor anything.My mother .... with water glycemia is lowered!If so, there we were going to be by clicking insulin .... it will be a jerk not to say something uglier.

In the face of your visit with the endocrine, it simply points the rations you eat and the doses of insulin that you get, you do not need to follow the diet that gave you or its doses, but those that you consider to be in normoglycemia according toWhat you eat (if you need more insulin, then you put it on, if it is less, idem. If you have to change the basal time, you change it) he will see your results in Libreview and tell you if you do it right or badly.This is what they look at all in four -month controls.If you see something weird, they tell you that you change the dose or time, but nothing more.With that good PGS, it will not give you any guideline.Put an eye to the Liberview, the AGP sheet, it is the one they use as a reference.

sandman said:

salad said:
I am flipping with your nurse.How will you not be able to modify guidelines according to your glycemia?What do you expect to see "nosuecuando" to the endocrine and he will change them?
The treatment of diabetes is self -managed.Specialists have to teach you how to handle the doses of the intakes and the response of glycemia but they cannot impose fixed doses, it is absurd.

Sorry, that I just remembered something that the educator told us.To a comment from my wife commenting that some diabetic friend ever corrected after the meal, the educator told us quietly if she had high blood glucose that did not correct with insulin, that she simply drink a lot of water until she went down.
Imagine the face that remained.
All that was in the appointment where Rations, Hydrates and others explained to me.
So that I want to know the rations or grams of hydrates that carries a food if I cannot modify the dose of insulin that I am going to wear.

Holy God!And that this woman has work having so much valid people unemployed ...
What they tell you.No case, you start regulating you, which is your body and your diabetes.

sandman said:

salad said:
I am flipping with your nurse.How will you not be able to modify guidelines according to your glycemia?What do you expect to see "nosuecuando" to the endocrine and he will change them?
The treatment of diabetes is self -managed.Specialists have to teach you how to handle the doses of the intakes and the response of glycemia but they cannot impose fixed doses, it is absurd.

Sorry, that I just remembered something that the educator told us.To a comment from my wife commenting that some diabetic friend ever corrected after the meal, the educator told us quietly if she had high blood glucose that did not correct with insulin, that she simply drink a lot of water until she went down.
Imagine the face that remained.
All that was in the appointment where Rations, Hydrates and others explained to me.
So that I want to know the rations or grams of hydrates that carries a food if I cannot modify the dose of insulin that I am going to wear.

The water has also told me the nurse of the health center.I told him that I had read that glucose is expelled through the urine from 250 and replied that the kidney can also discard it below that level.What better drink to correct myself with fast.That was not a good habit.