Type 1 High blood sugars

[emily deacon]

Hello,

For the last couple months my sugars have been almost perfect during the night. I have a freestyle libre and the graph is almost straight the entire night. Over the last week my sugar have without a fail gone high every night. Sometimes i won’t eat hours before bed to avoid it, i make sure my sugars are within a good range before bed but they always now seem to go to about 15-16 mmol every night!! Why is this? I feel like it’s so random!

 

[Alison54321]

Hello, I recently replied to a thread similar to this, offering a few suggestions, but my suggestions didn't work, because the OP realised that her pen was broken, and not delivering the insulin. It might be a problem like that. Have a look at that first, is the pen broken? is the insulin no longer working? or something like that.

 

[PatsyB]

who knows why some times our BG level rise mine does the same then it is fine again for a while , some times goes high if i not feeling well or the body is out of sorts

 

[becca59]

Have had exactly the opposite. In fact over the course of a couple of weeks I’ve dropped 4 units of basal. The only thing I can think of is the weather. It is colder and darker. For me less needed (I don’t cope well with cold dark weather) for you it could be the reverse. I had upped it in the summer, though not by that amount.

 

[himtoo]

i have listed below what i would do if this were happening to me .

these include changing insulin pen cartridge , taking my temperature ( in case infection is having an effect on BG's ) , getting up during the night to do an actual BG test rather than relying on Libre, and finally increasing basal dose