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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2740853" data-attributes="member: 517579">I had a very similar picture to yours.  A drift downwards most of the night but a sudden cliff edge drop and then an equally quick rise. For me the low point is marked by extreme sweating and nightmares.  It doesn't happen all the time and seems to come and go with no apparent cause.   I am sure these aren't "compression lows" as compression lows don't come with sweats and nightmares.  It's been suggested to me that this could be caused by a rise in insulin, which is then matched by the liver producing more glucose. Obviously things are usually thought to operate the other way round, a rise in glucose triggering insulin production.  Maybe it's just a question of timing. The research EllieM tagged above does show that a fair proportion of non-diabetic people get exactly the same night time fall to comparatively low (sub-4) levels, somewhat to the bemusement of the research team.</blockquote>

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