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Early hours hypo

mrman

mrman

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woke 2.1, corrected usual amount if lucozade, biscuit, waited retested 2.5 ***. More lucozade anther biscuit wait and se I a bit. Currently starving now trying not to easy the while kitchen and rfeeling really hacked off !!!!!

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Re: Early hours hypo

Oh poor you. You must've felt awful being that low. Hope you managed to get it up eventually.


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Hope you're ok now and it didn't re-bound towards the morning. I had 2 hypos last night at 11.45pm and then 1.30 am - first time in months I've gone low during the night. Is there something in the Welsh air! :eh:
 
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Hope you manage to get it sorted reasonably quickly. My levels were low for most of yesterday, went from 4.7 on waking down to 2.9 after breakfast of fruit and eggs, had another couple of sub-4 readings as well.

I did notice that yesterday seemed very humid rather than just hot.
 
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It happened to me the other day had a mild hypo of 3.6 and it took a lot more to correct it, double the usual amount of jelly babies, some fruit bars which were to hand. I was struggling to get it above 4.1, yet the other week I had a hypo of 2.6 and it responded well to the treats compared to the mild hypo.
 
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Hypo from hell Brett :thumbdown:
 
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didn't manage to retest as I just passed out, absolutely knackered this morning. this hasn't happened for a long time so could be something in the welsh air! Thanks everyone, retested this am at 12.4!!. Just corrected and higher temp basal rate.

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I'm not surprised you don't feel great today with levels like that last night. I've still not had a night hypo, I'm not totally sure how I'm going to react when I do!
 
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Just be like a boy scout or girl guide lol, be prepared. hopefully, you won't have one. If u do I'm sure u b fine :)

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I think my biggest worry would be having a night time hypo and not knowing it. Obvious question, but does a significant night time hypo generally cause you to wake up?
 
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As far as I know I always wake up for mine. I usually wake up and don't realise I'm having a hypo until I can't manage to get myself back to sleep. So now whenever I wake up in the night I test so that I can catch it early.
 
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I'm constantly awake in the night, I can't remember the last time I slept through. I do sometimes test just to be sure
 
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I do wake when I have them, the few times I've had them at night always in the 2s.

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I suffered night time hypos for years, often having bad fits when I didn't wake (as I rarely did) but this stopped COMPLETELY when I began taking my Lantus (Glargine) in the mornings instead of at night. Swap your background injections to a.m. and see if there's a difference, but watch out for early evening hypos just in case you (like me) get a 'peak' from the background insulin. They say background insulins don't 'peak' but it's not correct as for me, they certainly do!
 
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Lisbet said:
I suffered night time hypos for years, often having bad fits when I didn't wake (as I rarely did) but this stopped COMPLETELY when I began taking my Lantus (Glargine) in the mornings instead of at night. Swap your background injections to a.m. and see if there's a difference, but watch out for early evening hypos just in case you (like me) get a 'peak' from the background insulin. They say background insulins don't 'peak' but it's not correct as for me, they certainly do!
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Got to agree my T2 Mum kept having nightime Hypo until her diabetic nurse switched her Lantus to morning .

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