How to bring blood sugar levels up

I've read that using glucose gel may be the fastest. You can also drink orange juice or any liquid that has sugar. If you're experiencing a low, you'd want something fast-acting, so the gel (which is specifically made for diabetics) or a drink would be a better choice than a cookie.

Glucose Tablets are good which I use when my sugar is between 3-4 but it is not as quick as orange juice which I use when my sugar goes below 3, I have (they have) used the gel on me when my sugar dropped to .6 don't remember how quick that was

They did with me Lanie but I don't know if I was completely out of it, don't remember it is also the day my chief at work showed his true colors

I pack a juice wherever I go. In my bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, purse, on a trip, to church, to the store, etc. I normally don't need them but you never know. Juice works the fastest for me whereas Some glucose tabs take too long to dissolve.

Back in 2000, the Paramedics put the gel in my mouth while hooking me up the I.V. in the Ambulance. I was unconscious but not seizing. All the gel did for me was to make me throw-up then pass out again. Of course, I was 0.9 mmol/l(16 mg/dl) at the time. If a person is seizing, the gel can be put in the cheek of a Person while someone else calls 911 or happens to have a Pen around.

Hi!

Well, I've been better Lanie but I guess that I'll have to be satisfied with the way things are for now. I'm off the RA drugs that were killing me last spring, gained my 19 lbs, back I'm having more "feel better days" with RA than last year but more up glucose days with Prednisone. I felt wonderful when I was on high dose for a month last year(no pain for about 3 months). But now I'm down to 10 mg, so most of that wonderful feeling is gone. Confusing, I know.

I kinda giggled when you mentioned, 'no liquids while someone is unconscious'. I don't know how my Brothers and I survived our Childhood but when Mom saw any of us in a seizure, out came the bottle of corn syrup. What a mess and I've hated that stuff since. Only funny in my mind. :) She had some strange ways.


How are you Lanie? What have I missed with you?

I'm wondering if blueberry is going to come and respond to the posts on this thread she started? So, for Will and msOuchie, I'm going to start a new thread for our conversation. Let's leave this one for blueberry. I hope she comes back and asks other questions that she needs answered.