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Libre: Night Hypo Or Squashed Sensor?

Discussion in 'Blood Glucose Monitoring' started by tim2000s, Aug 13, 2016.

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    What shape was the dip? A relatively sharp one or a smooth drop and recover? If it was the former, it's possible you lay on the sensor.
     
    #1 tim2000s, Aug 13, 2016 at 7:07 PM
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    Hi Tim,

    It seemed fairly sharp but consistent with my correction bolus downward trend. I've noticed that I seem to be more sensitive to insulin with reducing my carbs to 100g per day. This seems to reflect in both my I:C ratio and correction dose. I wonder if my BG just went lower during the night due to me being more sensitive and also still within the 4 hour bolus action time?

    I under-estimated the carb count of my "pie and beans" lunch, hence the terrible high... My 3u correction dose would have typically taken me to mid/high 5's but I got down to 3.9mmol/L. Am I right in saying this is normal when lowering carb intake?

    Here's a screenshot for you.

    Cheers,
    Grant
     

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    #2 GrantGam, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:45 PM
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    @tim2000s

    Before I ended up detailing the morning BS thread, @azure kindly offered to copy over my query to a separate thread :)

    Thanks in advance,
    Grant
     
    #3 GrantGam, Aug 13, 2016 at 9:49 PM
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    And here's last night's, this one looks like a natural dip and at 9u, interesting to see the difference.

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    #5 GrantGam, Aug 14, 2016 at 7:10 AM
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