Thank you for responding. For my diabetes I am on 30mg of Gliclazid which I take with breakfast, 1000mg of Metformin which I take aboput 18.30 with my dinner an 5mg of Linagliptin that I take before bed. Following some reading I have done I am going to get some glucose tablets and when/if I wake up between midnigh and 3.00am and my levels are below 4 I am going take one of those .Have you tried setting an alarm to check with a bg meter? Sensors aren't that accurate and are reknowned for reading low (so called compression lows) when you lie on them.
Non diabetics can regularly go down to the mid 3s without harm, hypos are an issue if you take medication that makes your blood sugar go lower.
Can I ask what meds you are on? If your bg is going low because you are on a medication that causes low bg then you could discuss the issue with your doctor... Some meds can cause hypos, others don't.
Thanks for your adviseAre you waking up with this? and are you feeling any symptoms of hypoglycaemia, sweating profusely; feelings of anxiety, weak and shaking...
The warning levels and most of the fear set into low blood glucose is (and rightly) aimed at type 1 diabetics. I was one for a while, and vividly remember being up in the wee small hours, frantically gobbling dextrose tablets and watching for the line to start going up again.
It turned out (for me) that the stress of the alarm going off, and the loss of sleep were far bigger issues, and once I started to realise that if I was "low" but the arrow was level (or even in the 4 o'clock position) - the level would sort itself out, and I was worrying over nothing (this was one of the first signs for me that I was much more likely to be Type 2).
I had one serious hypo event, and that was because I injected insulin and forgot to eat - but it taught me what a serious hypo felt like, and I never felt that way if my level was dipping in and out of the 3s.
You are on a whole different med regime than I was, so none of that may be applicable to you.
You may want to get an appointment with your support team, two of those meds will actively push down blood glucose by stimulating more insulin production. If your levels are concerningly low through the night, there may be room to safely reduce dosage - I can't say that - but taking more glucose to "match" the effect of the meds may work against you in the long term.
"as long as you get that it's not advice" Thats fine I should have written "help" instead of "advice" I will discuss with my diabetic team when we meet in AprilNo problem - as long as you get that it's not advice ...
Another way to put it - you're aware of the dawn phenomenon, where your liver prepares for the start of the day by creating (or releasing) a bunch of glucose? - well that's because, in the ideal state, where you are having a restful sleep, your blood glucose is naturally low.
An essential difference between you and @IslanderUK is that he's on gliclazide and you are not.I've never bothered doing anything about "treating" glucose levels. Partly this is because I was having the episodes for six years before eventual diagnosis, so my liver is sorting things out eventually, and partly because I'm more bothered about being woken at 4am and having to change a soaking t shirt (and occasionally the entire bed).
Yep. It's just what I do. Other people - your mileage may vary.An essential difference between you and @IslanderUK is that he's on gliclazide and you are not.
If you're on a medication that can cause hypos, please treat the hypo.
But only after double checking with a fingerprick, or when having symptoms.
My sensors always read lower than blood by 1 - 2 mmol/l, for me it's not a hypo until proven by blood.
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