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coco44

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi everyone. Just interested to know what is the safest lowest BS reading to go to bed with? Type 1 nearly 4 years diagnosed at 55 years old. No DAFNE courses in my area, learnt everything I know from Think like a Pancreas and you wonderful people on here thanks
 
Last Wednesday I went to bed with BG of 11.1 and woke up at 3:25 with the sweats and BG 3.1 ! No idea why this happened - I only took my normal amount of insulin in the evening.

Looking at my figures over recent weeks I seem to drop anything between 1 to 3 mmol/L overnight. Don't think anyone can state categorically that there is a 'safe' figure because we are all different. Do you have any idea what your own BG figures are (usually) doing overnight ?
 
I don't like going to bed with anything less than 5.0
 
i am quite happy going to bed 5 hours post bolus on a 5.0 or a bit more
 
I don't like going to bed with anything less than 4.0
 
I like to err on the safe side as my D is unpredictable so always like to be above 6
 
It depends how consistent your BG is normally - the range between high and low it normally keeps in with your normal control. For people lucky enough to have a consistent range, that's auch easier Q. I like to be not below 5.0. But my BGs are pretty steady at the mo.
 
Hi all many thanks for your replies. I was originally told no less than 7, but I find I'm usually high in the mornings even taking into account dawn phenomenon. I seem to be ok on 6, but was curious as to what others think or have been advised as to what is safe
 
I am happy on 6, anything else lower then I would be a little concerned. It also depends on what I have eaten for dinner.

Best wishes RRB
 
On MDI my bg wouldn't move more than 1mmol when the basal dose was right so always strived to go to bed with levels below 7 but above 5.6mmol, on a pump now it doesn't move more than 0.5 so I feel that bit safer going to bed on levels of 5 but not below..
 
It all depends on how much your basal drops your readings over time, and if you feel like your levels are apt to change based on injections close to bed time.

Personally, i get nightmares if sugars drop below 4.5mmol/L. Throughout the day i am totally fine at 4.5mmol/L but if they are 4.5 or lower while I am sleeping i tend to have very vivid, strange dreams, usually nightmares lol

So i usually make sure that I go to bed at a reading around 6.5mmol/l and that usually holds pretty steady through the night and i wake up around 6
 
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That s nice i try for a bed time BG about a 7 or 8 but only been pumping 6 weeks and i don't want to charge to much at this stage.
basal OK 8 before bed and 8.4 in the morning i know that its my bolus wizard over correcting . so a BG of 12 will end up at 6.. i will change this when i have talked to my lovely DSN
 
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