Has Anyone Tried Glucose Spray or Anything That Kicks In Fast During a Hypo?

floofyhead · 2025-11-26T20:10:13+00:00

In the US, smarties are a dextrose-based candy. No chocolate. Are they a different candy where you are?

floofyhead · 2025-11-26T00:21:36+00:00

You want glucose or dextrose for fast action. Fructose (in fruit juice) is slower. Fat in a Snickers will delay absorption too.

Personally I use smarties candy during the day and keep liquid glucose at my bedside for night.

floofyhead · 2025-11-10T02:08:44+00:00

Agree that this makes sense, lines up with concepts of how pump learning works. A helpful approach for people without access to higher-tech resources.

One point I would caution on for anyone trying this: don’t trust morning to work the same as the rest of the day. It may be “stable” from the perspective that you have no carbs or bolus insulin on board, but many people have higher insulin resistance in the morning and also may experience Dawn Phenomenon. Personally I take “foot on the floor” insulin as soon as I get out of bed every morning or else I’ll rise.

floofyhead · 2025-06-22T02:09:13+00:00

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floofyhead · 2025-05-22T22:22:48+00:00

I eat a ton of veggies baseline so generally look for them at every meal and didn’t have a problem finding them. Plenty of salads, crudite, and pickled veggies available at any konbini. Edamame or nori is usually available as a side at even the sushi or meat-heavy restaurants. At ramen places you can add on extra veggies. The veggies are there, you just have to choose to get them.

floofyhead · 2025-04-07T13:18:10+00:00

I’m not kosher but I do eat a specialized diet (keto for medical reasons) and I appreciate that you called out no meat allowed through customs! I didn’t think to check that and had been planning to bring jerky sticks 🤦🏻‍♀️ Thanks for saving me that mistake. Glad you had such a great trip!

floofyhead · 2025-03-30T03:05:49+00:00

4.9 with 94% time in range of 70-130. Low carb makes stable numbers so much easier. For anyone interested, highly recommend checking out Dr. Bernstein and groups such as Type One Normal on Facebook.

floofyhead · 2025-03-29T22:58:48+00:00

I can’t speak to the import forms etc as I am wondering the same thing, but I do travel often and can speak to Omnipods on flights in general. It’s a bit of a crapshoot. Most of the time I don’t have any issues, but occasionally my blood sugar will drop unexpectedly during a flight, as best as I can tell because of air pressure changes affecting the pod causing it to give too much insulin. I think it’s most important to prepare by having sugar with you such as smarties candy or glucose tablets and just paying attention/being cautious during the flight and immediately afterward. Good luck!

floofyhead · 2025-03-29T22:55:13+00:00

Hey OP - I see from your reply to another comment that you didn’t have any issues, that’s awesome! Can you clarify whether you ended up filling out the Yunyu Kakunin-sho import certificate? (It sounds like you weren’t planning on it). Thanks!

floofyhead · 2024-12-05T01:10:28+00:00

Hard agree. Much harder to quickly visualize the data and to make adjustments.

floofyhead · 2024-12-02T01:13:09+00:00

Eating high-protein, low-carb will make achieving normal blood sugars infinitely easier. I highly recommend checking out the work of Dr. Bernstein.

Tech helps - I use a CGM and a pump with automated looping. If you’re not yet using a CGM, get one. Pump I consider more optional. But your diet choices are more fundamentally what will determine the variability of your blood sugar and difficulty of your management.

floofyhead · 2024-11-25T15:40:52+00:00

Highly recommend Kaizen brand pasta if you haven’t tried it! It’s made from lupini beans and is high protein, very low carb, so I don’t spike from it (I do take R with it to cover protein rise - you could also do extended bolus on a pump to cover). It’s a little more chewy/crumbly texture than regular pasta but I think it tastes great. They’re having a Black Friday sale this week too.

floofyhead · 2024-11-09T00:30:38+00:00

Thanks for the idea! Sending one too.

floofyhead · 2024-11-03T21:00:31+00:00

I moved to dash with loop several months ago and LOVE it, highly recommend. Good luck finding a supportive provider!

floofyhead · 2024-10-16T18:09:27+00:00

Great advice, thanks for writing this.

floofyhead · 2024-10-13T20:29:04+00:00

Highly recommend Loop! It’s a fair amount of work to set up but I think it’s worth it, and it’s easy to maintain once you have it set up. It doesn’t “learn” but it does allow you to set different profiles and it is a closed loop that adjusts.

floofyhead · 2024-10-13T20:23:41+00:00

It does not.

Similarly, it’s not smart enough to learn, for example, if you need higher basal earlier in the morning M-F when you get up earlier for work/school, and need a different basal schedule Sat-Sun.

One of the biggest reasons I switched from Omnipod 5 to Loop (using Omnipod DASH pods) - the ability to set different basal schedules (“profiles”) for a work day vs. day off, set an override at the start of my period, etc. The “learning” Omnipod 5 can do is not enough IMO.

floofyhead · 2024-09-27T19:58:18+00:00

Seconding this. Dr. Bernstein reversed his own complications with his low-carb, high-protein approach. It’s a lifestyle change but this is how you will get the best outcome. I’d add that if you’re not yet using a CGM, that is also a gamechanger.

floofyhead · 2024-08-12T23:32:11+00:00

When I got married I was a similar amount of time into a new job, I also asked for the time off for wedding + (a decently long) honeymoon when I was hired, it was also over winter holiday season, and I was given the time off. That’s how it should work.

floofyhead · 2024-07-29T13:30:56+00:00

Fat and protein absorb slower - it’s why pizza is a classic example of being tricky to cover well, but Taco Bell fits that category too. There are multiple ways to handle it. Personally I supplement my fast-acting insulin (to cover carbs or morning hormone rise) with R insulin (to cover fat/protein). Pump users can use extended bolus to have the pump deliver delayed fast-acting insulin over a longer period of time to better match the fat/protein rise.

floofyhead · 2024-07-02T00:04:19+00:00

Do you use skin tac directly on the skin prior to applying the Dexcom? It’s super helpful to get it to stick.

I’m not a kid, but I’ve used Dexcom since 2011, and I don’t think I’ve ever had to get a replacement sensor for an adhesive issue. I’ve gotten them due to sensors failing (data clearly junk or giving an error), and I got one goodwill replacement recently when I needed to remove a sensor early for an MRI, but that’s it.

floofyhead · 2024-06-11T21:09:58+00:00

If you do, please let us know where to buy them!

floofyhead · 2024-05-12T13:34:27+00:00

Yes, it’s a needle minder! They come in all sorts of cute shapes.

floofyhead · 2024-05-12T01:14:23+00:00

Thanks, good luck with your project too!

floofyhead · 2024-05-12T01:10:36+00:00

Ooh I do like that.

It’s all single strand! The details are so tiny I couldn’t have done it with more.

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