I’m a type one diabetic, and having a low blood sugar is one of the worst feelings in the world. I’ve started wondering the science about how things affect you when you do have a low blood sugar. For example, how quickly after drinking juice does your blood sugar start to go up? For me, while I’m stiting there and waiting while my body dumps adrenaline into my system, feels like forever!
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I’m also a type 1, I can tolerate extremes though and I don’t really feel bad until I hit around 40 or less. But anyway, liquids are the best and take around 10-15 minutes at most to feel an improvement. I just throw some sugar in a bottle of water and keep it by the bed whenever my dexcom starts screaming at night, it triggers at <60
Since I have a constant monitor that takes readings every few minutes I can track it in real time. Despite drinking sugar and feeling better my actual number doesnt go up right away, it takes another 10 minutes before I can see it. It’s kinda odd, I would expect it to go up alongside feeling better but it has a delay.
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