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Night Time Hypos

johnpol

johnpol

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Pump
I'm sure that this has been asked before, but how do you all feel after you have treated a night time hypo? especially if it woken you up from sleep. I seem to be in the middle of a cycle of having them at around 1:30am, they wake me up with the usual sweating and nauseous feeling, get up test to see the numbers treat, and then go back to sleep. But I'm feeling horrendous when I wake up at my proper time.
Going to bed my reading is around the same of 7-9 (a bit high but I can live with it, as I know I drop during the Night) if I haven't had a hypo I usually have around 4 to 6 (last four mornings are 4.9) I have adjusted my pump to deliver less insulin during the sleep phase but , you've guessed it I have high readings in the morning. I normally treat the hypos with either a glass of milk or if I have it in 150ml of Lucozade sport backed up with a couple of digestive biscuits to stop the low spike. wait for half an hour make sure that my reading is going back up, then I can settle for the night, but I'm feeling so rough the following morning, it's beginning to annoy me!! I have had these in the past but when I was training for strongman competitions (I'm not training that hard anymore)
its just this feeling of being ill that I'm so tired of.
sorry for the long winded post, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated
 
If you generally go hypo at 1.30am, have you tried reducing your basal at 11pm? You don't have to reduce your basal for the whole time you sleep, just for the time you're going hypo.
 
If I've hypoed during the night and woken, I usually feel "out of it" in the morning. I am not sure how much of this is due to broken sleep or the hypo as I've never felt like trying out the waking without a hypo.
I must admit, I feel better if I have woken than when I sleep through a hypo. In the latter case, I have what feels like the hangover from hell (headache nausea, etc.) without the vague memories of a good night beforehand.

Sometimes, like you, I find myself getting into a hypo cycle which feels impossible to get out of. To start with, the affect of the hypo is a lethargy and my brain feels as if it is struggling to fire on any cylinders so any analysis is challenging. But, once I get my brain into gear (after a few cups of tea .. because I don't drink coffee but feel better after some hydration) and think back over what may be causing the hypos, I make some adjustments and move on ... until the next cycle.

Sometimes, it is easy to work out what went wrong: for me, it is usually exercise but, occasionally, eating too late and sometimes, just because my body has decided a change. Then I can make adjustments, test, adjust more, over adjust, test, under adjust, test and finally "BINGO!" ... for a few weeks.
If you are hypoing around 1:30, have you tried reducing your basal a little until about 1am?
 
I have six rates running on my pump, so have adjusted the one running from 10pm until 1 am, I will be adjusting the 1am till 6 am one, its complicated I run low at one part of the night then my body adjusts and I then run "normal" until I awake at 5:30 am. these Hypo cycles run for about a month with testing, retesting adjusting then re-adjusting, mind no one ever said being a diabetic was easy, or every one would want it. I'm going to speak to my DNS nurse today as this cycle has gone on too long and the after effects of these hypos are starting to be debilitating. @helensaramay , I know what you mean about the hangover from hell, without the fun!! its taking longer and longer to recover from them (must be an age thing) I will see what my DNS says later on today. Thanks every one
 
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