You Tube Tuesday #170 - Making the Low Go
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 8:19AM Since it is both You Tube Tuesday and Diabetes Blog Week I think I found a way to take care of both. Here it goes…
Day 2 – Making the low go. Tell us about your favorite way to treat a low. Juice? Glucose tabs? Secret candy stash? What’s your favorite thing to indulge in when you are low? What do you find brings your blood sugar up fast without spiking it too high?
Typically during the day I just use glucose tabs for lows. Orange glucose tabs to be exact. I have tried sour apple which makes me pucker long before I can chew the thing up. I have tried grape which makes me sick! YUCK! (this picture is from the Mall of America when I had a low. Scott only had Grape tabs and I had a tough time not spitting them out.) So Orange is the flavor we go with.
During the middle of the night when I know I need something to last a while, even after a few tabs, I go with my favorite thing. Sure I wake up high the next day but these round yummy warm pucks of goodness make waking up at 2:15 in a sweaty shaky mess not so bad.
Reader Comments (10)
Oh my gosh! It's hard to watch you trying to stomach those grape tabs! Dang those lows.
The Grape Glucose Tab Tasting George picture isn't there man.... didja forget to link it?
That old school commercial made me laugh! "you're so smart" as she's pouring on the syrup...
OK- I want waffles for lunch!
Thanks to your pic and description, I will not be purchasing the grape tabs anytime soon!
Kelly K
You are brilliant to combine Diabetes Blog Week and YouTube Tuesday!!! Well done, my friend, well done!!
Mmm, waffles.
woah! those kids certainly don't have the diabeetus!
that's an unhappy george picture... please stay away from the grape glucose tabs!
one cookie and 1/2 cup of milk works great for me
Really? You fix waffles in the middle of the night?
Again - another post that has made me hungry.
And yup - love the peanut m&m's!
Ugh. I hate glucose tabs of all flavors. I've tried every flavor, but they are too sweet and too chalky for my palate. Yum on the waffles, though. The first couple years that I was teaching, I used to have two eggos in the car every morning for breakfast on the way to school. I either had them plain or with peanut butter schmeered on them.
Love that picture of you trying to choke down the tabs!!
WAFFLES! I LOVE eggos, particularly with some PB to give me a boost to last throughout the night. Even without Lows, love having PB&Js on Eggos... Mmmm. But as you know by reading my DBlog today, I am a fan of glucose tabs (grape flavored the least, but not even close to the point of coughing or puking them up.) Call me weird. Everyone else does. Thanks for sharing, G, and for commenting on mine today!