night low

  1. F

    Night shifts and insulin use

    I am looking for advice as I have just started night shifts at Tesco restocking shelves. The work is quite physical and shifts are 9 hours with 1 hour 30 of break which can be taken whenever. I am having a problem with hypos. For the last few nights I have had 2+ hypos per night due to the fact...
  2. A

    Why do my blood sugar keep dropping

    I was diagnosed type 1 in June and started on 12U in the morning and 12U at night, with 6U of novorapid with each meal. This has gradually decreased. I’ve been low carb eating now for 11 days (against the advice of my DN) I haven’t taken any rapid insulin with food in 10 days and use 3U morning...
  3. P

    Advice on night time hypos

    So last night I was tossing and turning for much of the night and was absolutely exhausted when I woke for work, checked my bg using my libre and it turns out I'd been hypo much of the night. With DAFNE principles I'll be reducing my basal by 10%-20% However I currently have 34 units of Tresiba...
  4. T

    Pregnancy and hypos

    In the past few weeks since I've had libre, my dsn and consultant have been lowering my overnight degludec due to learning I've been having long hypos in the night. In the past week however I've had 3 bad night time hypos. I've been waking up shaking, feeling drunk etc and been around 2.3. I am...
  5. ksdks95

    Reactive Hypoglycemia Was it nocturnal hypoglycemia?

    Good morning! I have a question, again about nocturnal hypoglycemia. Yesterday evening I had a relatively light dinner (21:00). Just before bed (00:20) I measured my blood glucose, 93 mg / dL. Around 4:20 in the morning I woke up and measured glucose again, 108 mg / dL. Could the increase in...
  6. ivan 2

    How to prevent low at night ?

    Usual mixed insulin (16 units) at 7 PM. Meal after insulin and snack at 10 PM. Went to bed with 5.1. Woke up at 3 AM with 2.9 I was told not to cut insulin to 14 (2 units less) if my morning BG is over 7. It`s always over 6 first thing in the morning and I`m simply afraid to decrease the dose...