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Type 1 blood sugar readings

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garybev66

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Location
Evesham, Worcestershire.
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
good afternoon,since late last night my readings have been crazy.listed in order from 1.00 am today they have been,1.9,1.8,2.0.3.7,4.7.7.7,3.6,9.4,14.1,5.4,4.2,9.4.dont really want to waste the docs time etc anyone had readings like this and did you just ride it out? thanks in advance for any answers.i use novarapid and levemir.
 
Were those finger prick tests @garybev66 ?

Do you carb count? When/what did you eat for your evening meal? What was your BS before you went to bed? Had your routine changed eg exercising or drinking alcohol?
 
Its hard to see whats going on when we don't know what time each test was at and what you have eaten today...
 
azure said:
Were those finger prick tests @garybev66 ?

Do you carb count? When/what did you eat for your evening meal? What was your BS before you went to bed? Had your routine changed eg exercising or drinking alcohol?
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hi,my readings before bed came up as what I normally expect.yes I do finger prick and carb count within reason as I normally know near enough what I'm eating etc.
 
garybev66 said:
,1.9,1.8,2.0.3.7,4.7.7.7,3.6,9.4,14.1,5.4,4.2,9.4.
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I've got to be honest, those readings don't seem especially crazy to me.

You had a very low low with readings under 2. Presumably you took on some fast acting carbs to treat the hypo, resulting in a rise to 7.7.

You had another drop to 3.6. A drop after treating a hypo is very, very common. Once you've had one hypo, youre more at risk of a repeat. Your body's distressed by the first hypo and concentrating on restocking glucose stores in liver and muscle so if it happens again it's prepared. Really once you've treated a hypo with fast acting glucose you should follow up with complex carbs to ward off a repeat drop.

You treated your 3.6, perhaps over treated to rise to 14.1 but that's easily done.

They just look like normal blood sugar. Your main focus should be to figure out why you had such a low low at 1am so you can take steps to avoid it happening again. That will stop you ending up in the exaggerated swing caused by hypos and overtreating them that you are seeing now.
 
garybev66 said:
hi,my readings before bed came up as what I normally expect.yes I do finger prick and carb count within reason as I normally know near enough what I'm eating etc.
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Ok, and how did you treat the lows during the night - what/how much did you eat?
 
catapillar said:
I've got to be honest, those readings don't seem especially crazy to me.

You had a very low low with readings under 2. Presumably you took on some fast acting carbs to treat the hypo, resulting in a rise to 7.7.

You had another drop to 3.6. A drop after treating a hypo is very, very common. Once you've had one hypo, youre more at risk of a repeat. Your body's distressed by the first hypo and concentrating on restocking glucose stores in liver and muscle so if it happens again it's prepared. Really once you've treated a hypo with fast acting glucose you should follow up with complex carbs to ward off a repeat drop.

You treated your 3.6, perhaps over treated to rise to 14.1 but that's easily done.

They just look like normal blood sugar. Your main focus should be to figure out why you had such a low low at 1am so you can take steps to avoid it happening again. That will stop you ending up in the exaggerated swing caused by hypos and overtreating them that you are seeing now.
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many thanks
 
azure said:
Ok, and how did you treat the lows during the night - what/how much did you eat?
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first of I had a dextrose tablet to get me going as me legs had gone lol,i then had a ham sandwich and some orange juice,tested 25 mins later and it was no better.as you can it took 5 goes at coming back up,which is strange for me to be honest.
 
I'd set an alarm to test tonight to make sure you're not going low again. I don't know what the cause was for you, but I find that if I miscalculate my evening meal bolus and have too much insulin I have to eat more for a while to stop the drop.

You could eat earlier tonight - that might help too.
 
azure said:
I'd set an alarm to test tonight to make sure you're not going low again. I don't know what the cause was for you, but I find that if I miscalculate my evening meal bolus and have too much insulin I have to eat more for a while to stop the drop.

You could eat earlier tonight - that might help too.
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thanks for your advice.
 
garybev66 said:
first of I had a dextrose tablet to get me going as me legs had gone lol,i then had a ham sandwich and some orange juice,tested 25 mins later and it was no better.as you can it took 5 goes at coming back up,which is strange for me to be honest.
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"A" dextrose?
Assuming you are injecting, I thought the advice was 3 to 4 dextrose tablets and about 15g of slow acting insulin.
Once dextrose wouldn't bring you up far and the fat in the ham sandwich would delay any impact that had.
 
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