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Blood glucose levels rising in evening

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dom08

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Hi all.

I've only just noticed this, but it may have been happening since I have been diagnosed (2 months ago.)

Basically, I'm a type 1 diabetic, taking novorapid with each meal, and a glargine on the evening (around midnight).

I used to check my blood when i woke up, before i went to bed, and 2 hours after the evening meal (around 7pm, with the meal being around 5).

Yesterday I checked my blood completely at random at 10pm, and it was 16, when I was advised it should be < 9. I checked again today and it was 13. I'm not snacking since the evening meal, and the reading I take 2 hours after the evening meal are always around 6.

Why might this be shooting up hours later? and is it bad for my eyes and whatnot?

Thanks, Dom.
 
Hello dom08,

Assuming that your pre-breakfast sugars are on target, it sounds as though your glargine isn't
going the full 24 hours. One possible way around this is to use a 50/50 split dose of glargine,
spaced around 12 hours apart. It's probably best to talk all this through with your doctor first.

Good luck,
timo.
 
Agreed, no personal experience but Lantus seems to last anywhere between about 17 and 36 hours in different individuals, either a symmetrical split or assymetric split dose will probably work (I knew a really weird person once who, when he wasn't pumping, used lantus in the morning and NPH in the evening, which covered the gap and reduced his dawn phenomenon)
 
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