Hi. Be aware that the body (liver) can be quite good at releasing emergency glycogen if needed. Also you typically wake up if too low. Obviously test before bed and avoid injecting fast-acting insulin too close to bed-time
Welcome back @Lynz84 - has a bad hypo played a part in this?
I get the fear as you call it before driving and also before going into the gym. This led to me over-testing my BG and having very sore fingers all the time as well as over treating low levels as I was testing too quickly after treating and not giving enough time for glucose absorption! I don’t have many tips other than maybe keep a record of BG readings in the time just before bed and look for any significant patterns or any correlation. Also maybe try running sugars slightly higher before you go to sleep (not too high obviously), just enough to reassure you that you will keep a balance during the night! With the alarms maybe start reducing the amount of alarms you set, gradually weaning yourself off setting them and getting yourself a good nights sleep! The last tip is more of a reminder that no matter what, you may experience a hypo in the night at some point but if you’re prepared (glucose nearby, people aware of the condition and symptoms, mobile phone handy etc) then there’s no reason that you won’t be able to get it corrected quickly and feel back to your normal self ASAP!! Hope this helps/reassures you in some way even if just a little xx
Hi, @Lynz84 , any idea whether you're eligible for libre on prescription?
If so, a small transmitter, MiaoMiao2, can be bought for about £139, it gets stuck on top of libre, reads it every 5 mins and sends the reading to a phone app, just like a cgm, and can be set with alerts which you can set at any level you want, for any time of the day, so if you drop too low while sleeping, say, 4.5 or whatever you choose, the phone rings.
It's a very effective safeguard against night hypos.
Here's the link if you're interested in this route:
https://miaomiao.cool/
Oh my goodness scott thats incredible! Im actually getting a libre in 3 weeks and so excited. Have you used the other wee gadget too?
Sure have, quite a few of us here are using it. It's reliable.
Here's an example, pic below. The app the libre/MiaoMiao output from your arm is running to is an Android one, xDrip+, each blue dot is a 5 min reading, forming a trace over time.
Between 1am and 4am, my bg has trended down from 6 to just above 4 (basal probably needed adjusted or maybe I'd just been out for a beer...), so the phone then rings at 4am, wakes me, I have about 5g of carbs, and the line nudges back up to 6 over the next few hours.
That downtrend from 6 to 4 may well have ended up as a hypo, but it didn't, because my libre, transmitter and phone woke me so I could take some glucose.
You can also look back at the line and use it to figure out why something happened, to figure out ways to reduce the chances of it happening again - it makes many aspects of T1 much easier to deal with when you can see where bg has been and where it's going: you start to figure out ways of gently steering it in advance away from messy highs and lows, instead of retrospectively dealing with messes after they have happened.
This all helps reduce the psychological burden, fear and uncertainties of T1, just being able to see how bg is moving, so you can take small steps to guide it.
xDrip+ is here if you want to have a look at it, it'll run on a cheap Android phone:
https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip/releases
https://jamorham.github.io/
There's a slight issue at the moment: it runs fine with MiaoMiao version 1, but MiaoMiao version 2 literally only came out a week or so ago, and the coding is still being updated so they will play together, but that's expected to be sorted sometime this month. Meantime, libre and MiaoMiao2 will work ok with MM2's inhouse app Tomato, but it's a bit basic compared to xDrip+.
Good luck, everyone loves cgm!
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I used to, but now I keep jelly babies in a jar on the nightstand. That way I have something fast acting close to hand.Hi guys
I have developed a fear of hypoing during the night and as such, set alarms every night. Does anyone else suffer this? Any tips?
Hi a long time ago a close acting friend found that having a small glass of milk before bed solved the problem. I use a Libre Freestyle sensor and found that doing the same my blood sugar stayed very level throughout the night.Hi guys
I have developed a fear of hypoing during the night and as such, set alarms every night. Does anyone else suffer this? Any tips?