Silas
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
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- pasta.
I don't use a pump but that same thing often happens to me. I am currently on a diabetes research trial using the new Flash meter FreeStyle Libre. This has been quite enlightening because I also see my blood glucose rising overnight without good reason. With the aid of the meter's graphs, I can see that I sometimes dip near 4.0mmol/L followed by a sharp upward rebound.This may seem silly, but i do have to ask - Is it possible that given a certain location of your infusion set and the way someone sleeps that an insulin pump may fail to get the insulin into a persons body at night while they are asleep ?
The reason I ask is obviously due to my own experiences lol I have noticed recently that my sugars will be great all day long, no issues with basal or bolus. Then i go to be and they seem as if they just go up and up all night - even with correction boluses!
Last night i went to bed with a 7.8, gave a correction and went to sleep. At around 3am i found my sugars up around 10 so i gave a correction AND set a temp basal of +30%, went to bed. woke up 3.5 hours later and my sugars were even higher so i gave another correction and another temp basal of +30%, then when i woke this morning 3 hours later my sugars were still 11.6 so i gave a correction again and almost immediately saw them dropping.
It could very easily be something I ate before bed, but i want to know if its possible that delivery of insulin could be prevented ot disturbed - Am I sleeping in a way that's stopping the infusion set from working ?
I use the 6mm Animas set, and its usually placed somewhere on my rear lol I have had this issue before but i wanted to ask to be sure.
Thank you all!
I am therefore coming to the conclusion that I must never dip too low otherwise I will rise rapidly and even additional bolus doses have little effect at correcting my glucose level.