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- Type of diabetes
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Hi all,
So recently I've been having awful problems with dawn phenomenon - as in for the last three weeks I keep waking up between 3am and 5am and my sugar level is rising dramatically (this morning my body woke me up at 4:30am and my BS was at 16.5 - at about 2am it had been about 6!), it's either flat or a very gradual drop before then, this has been happening for about the last 3 weeks and well I'm exhausted now (my alarm for work goes off at 6:15), anyways I've got my review at the diabetic clinic at the hospital tomorrow so was gonna see if I could persuade them to give me a pump. Anyways, I don't always get DP, it comes and goes so I was trying to find out which ones have a low glucose suspend - because the last time I went and asked they said a pump would be no use cos my DP is intermittent, but with low glucose suspend I presume I could set it give me more insulin at about 3am and if DP didn't kick in then it could suspend.
So far I've found the Medtronic 640g and 670g, the Medtrum A6 system and the t:slim X2 - so anyone know if there are any others available (in the UK)?
Or does this sound like a silly idea?
So recently I've been having awful problems with dawn phenomenon - as in for the last three weeks I keep waking up between 3am and 5am and my sugar level is rising dramatically (this morning my body woke me up at 4:30am and my BS was at 16.5 - at about 2am it had been about 6!), it's either flat or a very gradual drop before then, this has been happening for about the last 3 weeks and well I'm exhausted now (my alarm for work goes off at 6:15), anyways I've got my review at the diabetic clinic at the hospital tomorrow so was gonna see if I could persuade them to give me a pump. Anyways, I don't always get DP, it comes and goes so I was trying to find out which ones have a low glucose suspend - because the last time I went and asked they said a pump would be no use cos my DP is intermittent, but with low glucose suspend I presume I could set it give me more insulin at about 3am and if DP didn't kick in then it could suspend.
So far I've found the Medtronic 640g and 670g, the Medtrum A6 system and the t:slim X2 - so anyone know if there are any others available (in the UK)?
Or does this sound like a silly idea?