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Uncontrollable Nighttime Hypoglycemia

Breakfast was muesli. Then was 3 eggs and half dose protein shake. Now its Bran flakes. This is since I started using the sensor.
Below is the AGP for when I started taking the Lantus in the morning. It looks the same as the other graph but they're different.
Oh. The injection sites are on my tummy as there is little to no effect if I inject anywhere else.

To be honest, I've never carb counted. For the entire time I've been guessing based on past reactions. I know that its not the right way however when the professor diagnosed me, all he said to me was, "you can continue with your life like normal, eat what you want and inject as required. The exact doses will come with time." So that's what I've been doing. I then put on weight, mainly at the injection sites, and that's it. I've been trying to manage this as best I can by myself as there does not seem to be much concern for it from the doctors I've been to. I've only ever started experiencing problems this year. Everything was going fine before that. Average HBA1c was 6 to 7 and only over the last three years has it been between 7 and 8.
 
The good news: since changing to morning basal things have got tighter, mid morning rise hasn't been as high.

The bad news: the night time hypo pattern hasn't changed much and if anything got slightly worse.

How much insulin are you taking? Could you give numbers for morning basal, breakfast, lunch and dinner and any taken for the 9pm snack?
 
Lantus was originally at 22 units. It was then dropped to 15 units at the start of the sensor use and upped to 18 over 4 weeks
Apidra is between 20 and 40 units depending on what I'm having.
 
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