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<blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 415369" data-attributes="member: 8799"><p>All of my diabetic life using insulin, I've always eaten a small snack before going to bed as failure to do so would usually result in me having a fairly bad hypo somewhere between the hours of 2-3am.</p><p></p><p>I never realised why I needed to eat something until I started using a pump and discovered that my bg levels naturally dropped between the hours of midnight to 3am and then gently started to rise upwards so low bg levels are not always down to too much basal, it can be just because of the way the body changes its need.</p><p></p><p>For people who are prone to overnight hypos, testing bg levels at different times in the night will reveal what happens and depending on the results, the basal could possibly be injected with eve meal (about 6pm) instead of before bed, changing carb ratio for the evening meal because of the basal action or just eat a small carb snack and then monitor again to determine whether the changes made help out or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHs, post: 415369, member: 8799"] All of my diabetic life using insulin, I've always eaten a small snack before going to bed as failure to do so would usually result in me having a fairly bad hypo somewhere between the hours of 2-3am. I never realised why I needed to eat something until I started using a pump and discovered that my bg levels naturally dropped between the hours of midnight to 3am and then gently started to rise upwards so low bg levels are not always down to too much basal, it can be just because of the way the body changes its need. For people who are prone to overnight hypos, testing bg levels at different times in the night will reveal what happens and depending on the results, the basal could possibly be injected with eve meal (about 6pm) instead of before bed, changing carb ratio for the evening meal because of the basal action or just eat a small carb snack and then monitor again to determine whether the changes made help out or not. [/QUOTE]
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