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I had a hypo on Wednesday afternoon. 1.8 and I passed out on my living room floor. I was petrified. I only take lantus at 7am every morning as my pancreas is still spurting it out now and again. I recently increased my lantus to 10 and and suffered 4 hypos in one day I decreased it back to 8 and still I'm having hypos but it's at 4am and I wake up paralysed and often can't breathe and covered in what seems a few bucket fulls of water but it's actually cold sweat. I've spoken to my DN and she wasn't much help. I'm a dispenser and know about stuff and my brother has type 1 and my father in law. I'm 8st 3 and 5ft 7. Xx
You need to reduce your basal insulin (lantus) to reduce your night-time hypo's, try reducing it to 6 units and test your bg for a few nights to see if this is enough, I would suggest setting your alarm and testing around 1 & 3am.
If your not getting much cooperation from your DN then ask for a appointment with the diabetes consultant, in the mean-time keep a detailed record of all your insulin doses, bg readings and food intake and take it along with you.