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<blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 2270439" data-attributes="member: 140811"><p>If you take your lantus at 10pm then it should be working fine by 3am. I asked because I used to take my basal in the morning and so with around 18hrs activity it was wearing off at around 3am. I switched to evening injections but would then start to see an afternoon rise starting around 3pm. It did help the overnight rise but not hugely.</p><p></p><p>If you're eating at 6pm, are your glucose levels good at bedtime? My missus finishes her nursing shift at 8pm and so we eat late. I usually turn in around 11:30pm and sometimes take a couple of units of rapid if I'm much above 9.0mmol at that point. This seems to be helping to reduce the overnight rises. </p><p></p><p>The one thing I'd say about the Libre is, the further away you get from the 4 to 8mmol range, the bigger it's errors seem to be. So if it's telling you that you were 16mmol at 3am then it's probably more likely that you were 13. So it's always worth cross checking with a finger prick test. At the low end, I've had it reading LO when a finger prick test revealed I was above 4mmol.</p><p></p><p>Another possible avenue to explore is asking your doc' or endo' if you can switch to Levemir (basal) - it keeps my glucose levels a lot flatter than Lantus ever did. I think that people who make the change generally report similar findings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbanracer, post: 2270439, member: 140811"] If you take your lantus at 10pm then it should be working fine by 3am. I asked because I used to take my basal in the morning and so with around 18hrs activity it was wearing off at around 3am. I switched to evening injections but would then start to see an afternoon rise starting around 3pm. It did help the overnight rise but not hugely. If you're eating at 6pm, are your glucose levels good at bedtime? My missus finishes her nursing shift at 8pm and so we eat late. I usually turn in around 11:30pm and sometimes take a couple of units of rapid if I'm much above 9.0mmol at that point. This seems to be helping to reduce the overnight rises. The one thing I'd say about the Libre is, the further away you get from the 4 to 8mmol range, the bigger it's errors seem to be. So if it's telling you that you were 16mmol at 3am then it's probably more likely that you were 13. So it's always worth cross checking with a finger prick test. At the low end, I've had it reading LO when a finger prick test revealed I was above 4mmol. Another possible avenue to explore is asking your doc' or endo' if you can switch to Levemir (basal) - it keeps my glucose levels a lot flatter than Lantus ever did. I think that people who make the change generally report similar findings. [/QUOTE]
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