FTR, I�ve never actually tried Grape or Green Apple flavored glucose tabs, but I think I could deal with the Green Apple.
With that being said, I have two opened bottles of Orange Glucose Tabs (one in my car and one on my nightstand,) and I'm not about to waste them.
The other day before I left the the parking garage, I did what I always do before driving, and checked my blood sugar. I was 93 - with 1.10 units of active insulin.
So I did what I had to do and ate 4 glucose tabs immediately, washed them down with 1/2 a 20 ounce sports bottle filled with water, thought happy thoughts and stuck the key in my ignition.
An hour and a half later I pulled into my driveway with a blood sugar of 140 - and all was right in my world.
In the past, I�ve treated my lows with things that I have truly detested, because that�s all I had on hand. I�ve treated with spoonfuls of both pure molasses and rice syrup - fine for cooking, gross IMO, for eating raw.
I�ve forced disgusting jelly filled cardboard cookies down my throat, because at the time I was dropping fast and they were right in front of me at the dessert table.
And once back in college when my friend and I visited her grandmother, I treated a low blood sugar with prune juice, because that�s the only juice that was in the fridge at the time.
That was.... interesting.
In the grand scheme of things, Orange Glucose Tabs are not a problem or a deal breaker. They are a solution to a potential low blood sugar or treating an actual low blood sugar - and I am a lucky duck, indeed.
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