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<blockquote data-quote="smidge" data-source="post: 642699" data-attributes="member: 29301"><p>Hi serial45!</p><p></p><p>I get exactly what you have described.</p><p></p><p>I try to avoid large protein meals late in the evening, but when I do eat late, I inject a couple of units rapid acting before bed to deal with the effect.</p><p></p><p>Last night I had a steak salad at about 8pm. I jabbed a couple of units with the meal and another 1.5 units at 11pm. Woke this morning at 5.2mmol.</p><p></p><p>Many times, people have suggested I'm going low at night and rebounding high. My consultant even insisted I reduce my night time Levemir - with disastrous fasting results. The truth is protein needs insulin and a couple of units before bed fixes that.</p><p></p><p>My theory is - and I have no evidence for this so please take it as an opinion - that people on higher carb diets use more background insulin due to the higher background BG levels and that the protein sugar release is largely dealt with by that - lost in the noise so to speak. Just an opinion, but I do know that if I have a few days higher carb, my overall background BG level increases and I have to raise my basal dose - not just my bolus - to compensate.</p><p></p><p>Smidge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smidge, post: 642699, member: 29301"] Hi serial45! I get exactly what you have described. I try to avoid large protein meals late in the evening, but when I do eat late, I inject a couple of units rapid acting before bed to deal with the effect. Last night I had a steak salad at about 8pm. I jabbed a couple of units with the meal and another 1.5 units at 11pm. Woke this morning at 5.2mmol. Many times, people have suggested I'm going low at night and rebounding high. My consultant even insisted I reduce my night time Levemir - with disastrous fasting results. The truth is protein needs insulin and a couple of units before bed fixes that. My theory is - and I have no evidence for this so please take it as an opinion - that people on higher carb diets use more background insulin due to the higher background BG levels and that the protein sugar release is largely dealt with by that - lost in the noise so to speak. Just an opinion, but I do know that if I have a few days higher carb, my overall background BG level increases and I have to raise my basal dose - not just my bolus - to compensate. Smidge [/QUOTE]
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