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Hypo one night, hyper the next?!

db89

db89

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Type 1
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I had the same evening meal Friday night and tonight, a prawn curry with some rice (34g carbs weighed it all when making). I don't think there was particularly much fat in the meal. Both times I had it with some alcohol which I didn't bolus for as I've been told not to.

I was at 4.3 on Friday night before eating and 5.9 tonight. I took a reading at 2 hours both nights which were fine (5.9 and 7.7). However when it came to my reading before sleep I felt a low coming on on Friday night which my meter confirmed (3.7) which I treated before going to bed. Tonight I felt fine before bed and got a reading of 12.1. I took a 1u correction rather than the 2u my meter advised as I'm concerned about the alcohol bringing it down overnight.

Just wondering whether I can put this down to honeymoon or if I need to be looking at something else?
 
Diabetes is a fickle disease - you can be doing everything exactly the same two days in a row and get vastly different results. I don't know how long you've been diagnosed and in treatment but it's very possible to be having honeymoon swings there too.

Do you log everything? That includes the food, any exercise you did during the day, whether you slept well or poorly etc. next to your glucose values. If you can get an understanding of what your body does with various activities and food, you can estimate what you need to do to reduce spikes as much as possible.

Do you wait 10-20 minutes to eat after you take your bolus?
 
Hi @DaftThoughts I've been diagnosed since October, I was told I was probably in honeymoon phase a couple of months ago during one of my appointments as I had to reduce my basal by 2u twice.

I log as much as I can remember to. All foods, insulin doses and any exercise out of the ordinary. Sleep is something I'm constantly trying to battle and work on admittedly.

I usually take my bolus 15-20 minutes before eating carbs.
 
Try not to get too concerned about random type swings, having a low can cause a yo yo effect and create a following high even if you do not over treat the low. If you then over correct the high it can cause the yo yo effect to be worse or last longer.

As @DaftThoughts has already mentioned there are times when you look back at your records/memory and BG changes make full sense to you based upon what you ate, when you took your insulin and the amount taken, plus your health at the time, also the level of exercise and lastly the BG you had before your meal.

Other times your BG just makes no sense at all and you cannot work out any reasoning, its best not to get annoyed trying to resolve the cause of these, just try forget about them and carry on with your life. TBH this was the hardest part of diabetes that I found I had to come to terms with.
 
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