Constant hypo's

What did the hospital/your nurse say?
Do basal test? Or just keep cutting till within range

 

Not really enough info to be honest but clearly you are taking too much insulin. You need to get the basal right by doing some fasting tests. What are your pre-bed time levels ? You may be going to sleep too low or taking too much QA insulin with evening meal. Could be a few things. Remember though, diabetes doesn't lower BG, quite the opposite. You need to keep a diary and ensure your insulin needs are adequate to keep you within target range, both background and fast acting.

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As Mo says it all points to you taking too much insulin, try lowering your basal insulin again by a unit or two and test over the next few nights, yes it means waking up a few times to test but it's worth it to get the basal dose right, get a good nights sleep and avoid those morning hypo's.

 

Well rest won't resolve the problem, you need to reduce your basal further. Going to bed on a bg level of 4 isn't ideal as it doesn't leave much margin of error if your bg levels drop during the night, once you do get your dose right you should be able to go to bed with levels of 5.5mmol but the choice is yours, try another reduction and see how you get on.

 

Noblehead makes a very good point.

A level of 4 when retiring for the night is far too low. I tend to ensure mine are around 8 when going to bed, which allows a drop safely if it should happen.

The advice you've got on this forum is excellent. As mo1905 says, also look at the insulin that you take at teatime as this will have an effect on your readings during the night and in the morning.

Have you also considered applying to go on a BERTIE course or DAPHNE course?

I know there has been some negative views posted about these courses, but the BERTIE course I attended in 2011 was most helpful with Trainers who gave you the respect and acknowledgement that you are the expert, not them.

I would recommend it.

 

The nurses recommendation of 15 units is much too high for you it seems, cutting it down to 14 wont do much considering how low you are dropping over night. I would reduce it to 10 or 8 and take note of your bg difference over night and adjust your levemir accordingly, just make sure you don't have any novorapid in your system over night and try not to have novorapid for at least 4 hours before bed so you can be sure that any bg changes are due to levemir.

Like someone said; at the moment you should try and maintain a higher bg level before bed at around 8. I would only do this for a time until you get your basal stable and can confidently go to bed with levels around 5. It is very possible to go to bed with normal non-diabetic levels and be safe if you have great control of your basal but until then you need to be careful and unfortunately run your levels slightly higher.

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