Treatment

I have to check my blood sugar levels and inject myself with insulin four times each day. Before breakfast, lunch and dinner (meal specific) and at 9.00pm (time specific).  I also do extra blood tests before sports and if I feel any hypo symptoms, also sometimes I need an extra shot of insulin if I have a high-carb snack.

Because of this I have to carry a bag with me at all times containing:

I have to calculate my insulin dosage whenever I eat based upon the carbohydrate content of my food and have a book to look this up in. Mum has over heard a comment in a restaurant about what someone so young and skinny is doing on the Atkins diet!

Hypos

A hypo is what it’s called when my blood sugars drop too low, the symptoms include feeling light-headed, shaky or wobbly, unusually hungry or having a head or tummy ache. Sometimes the symptoms are thinks I don’t notice but other people might like looking pale, being unusually irritable, tearful or confused maybe even seeming drunk.

Usually having just a small glass of a non-diet soft drink/fruit juice or some glucose tablets with a high-carb snack sorts it out but I have a tube of glucose gel incase my hypo makes me unco-operative and an injection incase I am drowsy or unconscious.