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i wont go to bed under 6 -8,if im under i will have a glass of milk and slice of bread :)
 
totsy said:
i wont go to bed under 6 -8,if im under i will have a glass of milk and slice of bread :)
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Thanks Totsy.

Mine was 5.2 before so I will have a small bowl of museli and hope that covers it.

Been experiencing lows the last few days and have been none stop with rehearsals. Maybe that's why or maybe my pancreas was playing tricks on me and has decided to work again. If only:)


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I know my bg doesn't drop much more than 1mmol overnight so happy to go to bed around 5.6 - 7.0mmol, any lower then I will have a small snack.
 
I'm happy with 6 or a bit above.Don't like any lower as I would hypo badly at 2.5 and badly enough for hubby to treat me, but since carb counting course, pump I can now drop to 2.6 with signs, where as before I would have no signs. So start to think at 3 of a night I need to treat and test in 15mins. Which I take a couple of rich tea fingers(secret crave,of mine)
 
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Julie1471 said:
I'm happy with 6 or a bit above.Don't like any lower as I would hypo badly at 2.5 and badly enough for hubby to treat me, but since carb counting course, pump I can now drop to 2.6 with signs, where as before I would have no signs. So start to think at 3 of a night I need to treat and test in 15mins.
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Do you automatically wake up when you have a hypo? I've been waking up with awful headaches. Like a hangover without drinking.

I'm starting pump course this Friday. Hopefully it will help with the lows and the amount of exercise I do.

How did u find the course?



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At 11.00pm, I want mine to be precisely 4mmol/l. (And it's usually very close to that.)

Then I eat half a slice of the Co-Op's wholemeal bread, with yeast extract. For I know that my blood sugar will fall by a further 2mmol/l by midnight. (At midnight, the insulin I took earlier in the day will be completely exhausted.) And I know from experience that the 2mmol/l drop will be covered by the half-slice of bread.

Also at 11.00pm, I take the only slow-acting insulin I ever take: 1.5 units of Insulatard. (In the summer months, I take 3 units.) This stops my blood sugar rising overnight.

And because I have a bare minumum of insulin active within me overnight, I know that I'll sleep safely.

I should add - though I've written it elsewhere on this forum - that it's on account of what I eat that I'm able to safely maintain blood-sugar levels that are a non-diabetic normal.
 
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No, I didn't but since going on the pump I've had no night time lo's, but day time I get signs. Before the I would be sweating and hubby would wake up and treat. But things have changed so much. The course umm well, one day I went in with carbs for one meal, that I had and got told I'd counted wrong, others on the course verified my carb count and diet bod asked where I had got my info from and I said the box, but the others had already agreed my info. Diet bod wasn't happy. It was ok it stopped my bad hypos, and I've not need a glycogen jab in a year or more. Bad hypos bad headaches and the same feeling, can take a day to feel right.
 
I have only once or twice in twenty years had a hypo that didn't wake me up for me to deal with, so I just make sure I have glucose at the side of the bed. Having said that it's unpleasant to be woken up by sweats, confusion and adrenalin. So I would have a little snack if under about 4.5 or definitely if under 4. Or if I had reason to believe my BG was still dropping - such as a very late meal. For this reason I try to avoid late evening snacks, particularly anything carby.

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It is thought that quite a lot of diabetics once they've been type 1 for 10yrs or more, will rarely be able to wake up to treat a hypo themselves. Reason being that the alpha cells in the pancreas start to die and so dont release glucagon to stimulate the liver to release stored glucose, hence the need for oral glucose or glucagon injection or iv glucose in vein. Only a very small number of type 1s will wake up



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My 9 year old was at 4 sometimes as i tested threw the night at first i woke her to give her give small carb but my nurse said with her being on the pump its programmed to keep her between 4-7 as long as there is no active insulin present she will stay at that rate !! Is scared the hell out of me me but teating hourly proved just that she never went under 4 or over 7 thats why i love is so much .....once the settings were correct


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@iHs in that case I consider myself very lucky!

What's the cause of alpha cell death? I didn't know alpha cells were attacked too in autoimmune diabetes.

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