My son hates these glucose tabs - but we find the 10-tab containers of this Dex4 to be the best we have found so far to carry hard candy in the pocket or slingpack:
Of course, my son loses them all the time, and they are rather expensive to buy filled. Does anyone know where to buy, say, a hundred of these containers (containers only)? I imagine we’ll run through that many in 2-3 years…
I have looked around but can’t find these tubes anywhere (I mean just the tubes, without the tabs).
As a note, there are several types of these tubes. The ones we like are these exactly. Others come with a really bulky, oversize screw-top which does not fit pockets well and takes too much space. The only thing I’d like better would be a similar container but with very compact screwtop – the containers sometimes opens up in the bag or pocket under pressure.
the G Tabs work quickly. the chocolate is my long-term back-up (it takes an hour to hit the system) but, as long as i am low, F-it, i’ll go for the chocolate with the rational that it will stabilize me later and keep my BGs steady. but, yummy yummy, yummy. have you ever tried dark chocolate with sea salt by LINDT ??? OMG, it rocks
PS: sometimes i just want to go low for the sake of having a little piece of this or that that i wouldnt normally bolus for. i know that must sound crazy…i mean, why not just take a bolus and have some chocolate? right? duh.
That makes perfect sense. It’s kind of like a diabetic reward. It’s a treat for having to endure low BG, and that makes it even better. I am totally with you on it!
But they don’t take a lot of solid candy carbs. The one Doc linked to take 30 carbs in skittles or jellybeans.