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How to go to bed safely (right now)

Antje77

Antje77

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So today diabetes suddenly decided I need less insulin. I didn't have serious hypo's, thanks to Libre, lots of teststrips and dextro's, and I used less novorapid than I normally do. Not a clue what the cause is (summer, pain in shoulder, honeymoon, sailing for a few days, time of month, a miracle or something else) and at the moment I don't really care. Easy as it is to change my novorapid and eat something, it is impossible to get rid of the tresiba still in my system. So what do I do now? Do I take a reduced amount of tresiba? Or none at all till tomorrow? Do I eat something to get me safely through the night? And what can I eat to do that? I really want to go to sleep in a half hour or so, but I'm afraid to. Last novorapid was six or so hours ago, and bs is 4,6 right now and going down. Any ideas?
 
Hello :)
I'm no expert but I'd encourage you to eat a snack (less than 15g) that you know will help maintain your levels overnight, rather than a quick fix that may spike or too many carbs. Id also suggest setting an alarm so you can check your levels in a few hours to check they aren't dropping. I find my BS drop when it's time of the month or hot weather. Hope you manage a good sleep :)
 
Three chocolate chip cookies and two slices of cheese on toast always works for me in those situations. A sophisticated mix of fast and slow carbs which works for any bad T situation, but make sure to glam it up a bit with chopped capers and oregano on the toast! If we're going to seriously hypo, we might as well do it in style!
 
tiredoftrying2017 said:
Hello :)
I'm no expert but I'd encourage you to eat a snack (less than 15g) that you know will help maintain your levels overnight, rather than a quick fix that may spike or too many carbs. Id also suggest setting an alarm so you can check your levels in a few hours to check they aren't dropping. I find my BS drop when it's time of the month or hot weather. Hope you manage a good sleep :)
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Thanks! The snack I had figured out, but set the alarm in a few hours I hadn't thought of. Additionally I'll keep a slow-acting snack by my bed in case I'm going down again halfway through the night :)
 
Scott-C said:
Three chocolate chip cookies and two slices of cheese on toast always works for me in those situations. A sophisticated mix of fast and slow carbs which works for any bad T situation, but make sure to glam it up a bit with chopped capers and oregano on the toast! If we're going to seriously hypo, we might as well do it in style!
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Wonderful ideas, I'm off to the supermarket right now: you've made me hungry and craving capers, oregano and chocolate chips cookies now!
 
Off to bed now. Decided on a slightly reduced basal (minus 10%), made a high fat (to make the carbs hit slower) sandwich with butter, mature Dutch cheese and chorizo, and two thin slices of normal bread of wich I ate a quarter. The rest sits by my bed, awaiting results of nighttime testing, next to dextro, meter and phone for scanning the libre. I'll take a smallish sugary nightcap (smallish to not compromise a possible needed liver-dump, sugary to get sugars up a bit right now, nightcap because holidays and yolo). Goodnight, and thanks for the advices!
 
Allright. Fed another quarter of my sandwich to the dogs (3 of mine, 2 a friends, all in my bed) , but only because they looked real sad, hungry and neglected. Guess I'll have enough of my sandwich left to save me tonight.
 
Antje77 said:
Allright. Fed another quarter of my sandwich to the dogs (3 of mine, 2 a friends, all in my bed) , but only because they looked real sad, hungry and neglected. Guess I'll have enough of my sandwich left to save me tonight.
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Fingers crossed for you overnight.

I rather hope the dogs don't snaffle your sandwich as you sleep. From my experience of dogs with cheese, I'd imagine it'd be a massive temptation for them, if they can access it!
 
Scott-C said:
Three chocolate chip cookies and two slices of cheese on toast always works for me in those situations. A sophisticated mix of fast and slow carbs which works for any bad T situation, but make sure to glam it up a bit with chopped capers and oregano on the toast! If we're going to seriously hypo, we might as well do it in style!
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You forgot the Worcester sauce! On the chocolate chip cookies I mean;)
 
Good morning everyone! Woke up safely, slept well, and right through the alarm of course :) . Woke up with the second alarm. Libre said I went from 4,7 to 3,7 in a perfectly flat line, but it reads a bit low so must have stayed above 4 as meter read 4,6. Ate another piece of bread and went back to sleep. Next time I woke to 4,1 on the Libre, and a nice flat line again. So I have been lower than I like tonight, but no hypo's!
The dogs only stole my last piece of bread after I got up and put it on the table to take with me for safe driving :)
 
Will have to do the same trick tonight, as I'm still going low when food and novorapid are not in play anymore. But with two nice changes from yesterday: 1: No need to get up early, so so what if I lose some sleep. 2: Went to a birthday party today and claimed a piece of Bruce Bogtrotters chocolate cake to take home to bail me out of problems tonight :) Not bad when forced to eat something carby in the middle of the night, never mind the dentist!
 
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