Evening target to morning hypers

hale710 said:

Ok well what I do is eat dinner a bit earlier on the day I'm doing the test, about 5-6pm and do insulin as usual but do not eat again! And just drink water, nothing with any carb in it. Then 4 hours after you've eaten the test "starts". For me that's 11pm. Take a BG reading then head off to sleep. Alarm set for about 12.30am, take BG and back to sleep. 2am test again and so on until morning. If at any point you go hypo, correct it then stop the test by he next day reduce insulin by 1unit and do the test again.

You should see a pattern of what your body does over night. In theory, if your basal is correct then your BF should stay steady. Mine does, but that's mostly down to the honeymoon period! So my body is cheating a little bit you may find you're going hypo at some point, if that's the case then your body is correcting itself and resulting in a morning high.

If you stay steady all night but then suddenly rise in the early hours of the morning then it's the dawn phenomenon most likely. I think the general rule is do it for 3 nights, if its the same all 3 nights then it's considered a pattern

I hope that makes sense

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iHs said:

hale710 said:

Ok well what I do is eat dinner a bit earlier on the day I'm doing the test, about 5-6pm and do insulin as usual but do not eat again! And just drink water, nothing with any carb in it. Then 4 hours after you've eaten the test "starts". For me that's 11pm. Take a BG reading then head off to sleep. Alarm set for about 12.30am, take BG and back to sleep. 2am test again and so on until morning. If at any point you go hypo, correct it then stop the test by he next day reduce insulin by 1unit and do the test again.

You should see a pattern of what your body does over night. In theory, if your basal is correct then your BF should stay steady. Mine does, but that's mostly down to the honeymoon period! So my body is cheating a little bit you may find you're going hypo at some point, if that's the case then your body is correcting itself and resulting in a morning high.

If you stay steady all night but then suddenly rise in the early hours of the morning then it's the dawn phenomenon most likely. I think the general rule is do it for 3 nights, if its the same all 3 nights then it's considered a pattern

I hope that makes sense

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Depending on how old you are and what you do during the day, but if you drink tea/coffee with milk in it on and off all day long, then it makes sense to include this in the basal adjustment during the evening when you eat your meal and not just drink water otherwise the bg levels used leading up to the time when fasting is started wont be correct. If water is just drunk, then a bolus would need to be used to cover the milk content.

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