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Morning Hypos

Dusty13 said:
Thank you very much I would appreciate that. My husband didnt have a hospital appt today, he basically camped out in the diabetes clinic for hours until someone would see him and after all that he is no further forward....
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Sounds very similar to what I have to do to get some advice. It took the doctors about 5 years to change my insulin from mixed long and short acting to the Lantus/Humalog injections. Every time I went back they would simply tell me to increase or decrease my dosage. A lot of them have not got a clue.
 
marktype1 said:
Sounds very similar to what I have to do to get some advice. It took the doctors about 5 years to change my insulin from mixed long and short acting to the Lantus/Humalog injections. Every time I went back they would simply tell me to increase or decrease my dosage. A lot of them have not got a clue.
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I started taking my mixed insulin 3 times a day (in smaller doses) coz they weren't putting me on basal/bolus, I loved their faces when they asked how my levels were coming down and I told them that's what I was doing.. Still wanted basal/bolus but was just trying to prove a point to them lol x
 
Mrsass said:
I started taking my mixed insulin 3 times a day (in smaller doses) coz they weren't putting me on basal/bolus, I loved their faces when they asked how my levels were coming down and I told them that's what I was doing.. Still wanted basal/bolus but was just trying to prove a point to them lol x
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Yeah I did exactly the same because they were not listening to me when I was saying I was not getting enough long acting and to much short acting. All they were saying was 'try reducing it by 2 units and testing for a few weeks'.
 
So up to now, I have moved my Lantus injection from night time to morning. I have not been hypo in the morning since doing this so I am reckoning that I may have solved the morning hypo. Now I just need to get the dosage right. I am still getting hypo's and high's randomly but always seems to be after meals which I reckon might be my Humalog dose. I am now going to try counting my carbs. Will keep everyone updated with results. I will also post an Edexcel spreadsheet with my blood readings over a few weeks so people can see if they have any similar patterns.
 
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