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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi Everyone,
Can anybody help with this problem?
After just completing the D.A.F.N.E course, I am starting to apply some of the knowledge I have picked up during the course. One of the things that caught my attention was that following a mild hypo, typically through the night and where I hadn't woken up to correct it; the morning after my glucose reading is always high (due to bodies own release of glycogen) to counter the hypo. The reading is nearly always +10. E.g 13.5. I wake feeling hypo (it feels more like 3.5 not 13.5), even though the meter says 13.5. I was informed at DAFNE that this is a "false" reading and not to take a correction for this. What I have found today is, after a hypo there is no glycogen left in the body so when I take some glucose to get rid of the hypo, the reading does not go up at all (the glucose goes straight back to back up reserves not into the blood directly) it sticks at 13.5. Can anyone confirm that this is normal occurance because the body is restoring its own glycogen levels? It is only after dealing first with the hypo that I can then take a corection dose of insulin to bring the reading back down to e.g between 5 and 7. I've lost count recently of the number of times I've taken a insulin correction dose on these "false" high readings only to send my hypo much lower.
In short - The false b.g meter reading is in fact is NOT false, it's accurate. but it's just that you must restore your bodies glycogen stores before you can deal with the high reading.
I would really, really appreciate your help/experiences on this one.
Can anybody help with this problem?
After just completing the D.A.F.N.E course, I am starting to apply some of the knowledge I have picked up during the course. One of the things that caught my attention was that following a mild hypo, typically through the night and where I hadn't woken up to correct it; the morning after my glucose reading is always high (due to bodies own release of glycogen) to counter the hypo. The reading is nearly always +10. E.g 13.5. I wake feeling hypo (it feels more like 3.5 not 13.5), even though the meter says 13.5. I was informed at DAFNE that this is a "false" reading and not to take a correction for this. What I have found today is, after a hypo there is no glycogen left in the body so when I take some glucose to get rid of the hypo, the reading does not go up at all (the glucose goes straight back to back up reserves not into the blood directly) it sticks at 13.5. Can anyone confirm that this is normal occurance because the body is restoring its own glycogen levels? It is only after dealing first with the hypo that I can then take a corection dose of insulin to bring the reading back down to e.g between 5 and 7. I've lost count recently of the number of times I've taken a insulin correction dose on these "false" high readings only to send my hypo much lower.
In short - The false b.g meter reading is in fact is NOT false, it's accurate. but it's just that you must restore your bodies glycogen stores before you can deal with the high reading.
I would really, really appreciate your help/experiences on this one.