Night Hypo Awareness Gone?

[Jelaca]

Hi there,

I have started with a Freestyle Libre within the last 6 months, (I’ve not currently got alarms turned on), and I’ve noticed that I’ve been having hypos during the night and not realised.

Do you think this might be that I wasn’t aware of them before, or could it be more likely that I’ve lost hypo awareness?
I know it might be hard to tell but wondered if anyone else had noticed this too?

Thank you in advance!
Jessica

 

[EllieM]

It depends how low you go at night, Since having a cgm I've noticed more night hypos, but I suspect that preciously my liver just pumped out glucogen so I never needed to know...

 

[In Response]

Do you know they are really hypos or are they compression lows - CGMs report false low readings when you apply pressure to them such as when you lie on them at night.

 

[Hopeful34]

I often get lows on Libre during the night, and when I've checked with a finger prick test, I'm not hypo a lot of the time and wasn't lying on the side my sensor was. Had been awake for 2 or 3 hours, so no possibility of a compression low. As soon as I'm up and about for a short time, Libre lows vanish, so for me it's when lying down that the issue is.

 

[Antje77]

I’ve not currently got alarms turned on

Can you turn on the alarms so you can do a fingerprick test to see if it's a true low or Libre reading a bit too low?

 

[Jelaca]

Thank you everyone for your answers that’s really good to know. I didn’t know that they did that if they’ve had pressure for a while. Sometimes I believe they have been real lows, for instance this morning once my alarm had gone and I had woken up I realised I did feel low. Maybe that’ll be best to do a finger prick test again to see. Thanks again for your tips and advice!