# Resistant low - puzzling? **URL:** \ **Category:** Type 1 & LADA\ **Created:** [February 14, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/resistant-low-puzzling/9317 "2020-02-14T15:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tigs1962](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/tigs1962/32/7538_2.png) [@Tigs1962](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Tigs1962)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/resistant-low-puzzling/9317/41 "2020-02-19T15:27:58Z")
Damn. I was just going to go over to Smarties instead of Jelly Babies!! I think that Smarties may take longer to absorb because they contain chocolate which is fat-based and takes a while for your body to process. I have experienced many lows which don’t seem to want to rise. My "order of business is: 4x Jelly Babies Then 150ml of FF Coca-Cola (small mixer tins are great and easy to carry around) Then if it REALLY doesn’t want to rise and I am STILL going low, I rip the lid off of a packet of Sherbet DipDabs. That stuff is like Cocaine for Diabetics. It is 100% guaranteed to make you BG rise. Only problem then is getting it back down! Oops, I was replying to an earlier post. I just saw that your Smarties are not our Smarties. Pity… I like Smarties ---
**Author:** ![Beacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Beacher](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Beacher)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/resistant-low-puzzling/9317/42 "2020-02-19T21:17:22Z")
> [@Tigs1962](#): > > Damn. I was just going to go over to Smarties instead of Jelly Babies!! You’re thinking the chocolaty English Smarties, which aren’t the sour/sweet American Smarties. Americans call those M&Ms, though they’re quite different. Here in Canada, Smarties are also English Smarties, but what Americans call Smarties we call Sweet Tarts, Rockets, and sometimes Love Hearts. I think you can get Love Hearts in the UK, and definitely Parma Violets, which are in the same family. The Refreshers I grew up with in England are close as well. ---
**Author:** ![lh378](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/lh378/32/601_2.png) [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/resistant-low-puzzling/9317/43 "2021-02-22T22:06:04Z")
> [@jbowler](#): > > The 6 unit bolus was given as 4.35IU immediate plus 1.65IU with a half hour delay. How did you know that you wanted to split the 6 unit bolus in those amounts and with a half hour delay? ---
**Author:** ![jbowler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@jbowler](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jbowler)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/resistant-low-puzzling/9317/44 "2021-02-23T02:34:20Z")
> [@lh378](#): > > > [@jbowler](#): > > > > The 6 unit bolus was given as 4.35IU immediate plus 1.65IU with a half hour delay. > > How did you know that you wanted to split the 6 unit bolus in those amounts and with a half hour delay? At the time I was following Bernstein and not bolusing more than 5IU at a time. The way I did this was to enter a sufficient extend into the Omnipod PDM to get below 5, not with any great deal of accuracy. Sometimes I would just extend the whole thing for half an hour. I lost the habit of doing that but think I am going to go back to that approach because I just had major site problems with an Omnipod on a site I normally avoid; I was having to bolus and basal 3x my normal dose to stand any chance of staying below 300. ---
**Author:** ![daisymae](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/daisymae/32/1199_2.png) [@daisymae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/daisymae)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/resistant-low-puzzling/9317/45 "2021-02-26T00:07:04Z")
> [@Jan](#): > > Anyone else have this experience and is it normal to feel crappy the next morning? OMG. I have had this exact same experience so many times that I can no longer count them. I get stubborn lows, and I take what seems like it should definitely be enough glucose tablets or juice, and I wait patiently while shaking and sweating for about 45 minutes to 1 full hour, and only to find that not only did my BGs not go up, but that they came down! I have done everything from Suspending my pump for between a half hour to a full hour, to over-drinking apple juice. and then, hours later, my BG will spike, as if all of that glucose I took to treat the low has compounded all at once and shot me to the moon. In fact, this happened to me yesterday. I went down to 50, took 2 Gtabs, which should have easily brought me up to 90 within 45 minutes (as per usual for me), and then when I re-tested (finger stick) my BG had only climbed to 52. Well this happened a bunch of times, and I really wanted to bolus for a planned fancy dinner out with my husband, so I just thought F-it, and I drank a 1/2 cup of apple juice and waited. well, within abut 15 minutes, I spiked from 52 to 154 ! At this point I didn’t care. I told my husband “get ready, we’re leaving the house. I’m ready to eat!” So we walked the mere 10 minutes it took to get to the restaurant. When I sat down an did another finger stick, my BGs had come down to 116 (I hadn’t done anything to make this happen. No correction bolus. Nothing. Nada.) C’est la vie, I thought, and I bolused for a wonderful meal. **but all this to say, you are NOT alone! This disease has a mind all of its own.** 🤪 ❤ 🙏 🥧 [Previous page](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/resistant-low-puzzling/9317.md?page=2)