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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2116126" data-attributes="member: 41816">Hi and welcome!I have RH, and my blood glucose is now controlled by a very low carb way of eating, so my bg and food are nicely under control (unless I do something silly, like eating carbs <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ).But whenever I use a Freestyle Libre sensor I am v curious about the blood glucose shenanigans that happen overnight - usually without any hypos, but sometimes with them.I think it is easy to think that bg just grooves along overnight in a straight line from the time we close our eyes to when we open them again, but that certainly isn’t what my body does.Give me 5 mins and I will switch to my phone where i have some Libre screen shots to illustrate.Here you go:First pic is today.  Lie in, protein/fat breakfast.  No carb[ATTACH=full]35029[/ATTACH]And the second pic is what happened overnight a few nights ago[ATTACH=full]35030[/ATTACH]See all the ups and downs between midnight and 8am?  No idea what caused it.  I am recovering from a virus and it was a poor night’s sleep, but which came first?  The hypo? The bad dreams? Or the virus?At 8am I ate a protein/fat snack and my bg immediately began to even out and then drifted downwards for the rest of the day.I can throw out jangly overnight bgs like that without a virus in the mix - and often do.  But bad dreams and hypos at 2.30-3.00am go hand in hand for me.  Followed by a rebound.  And good steady bgs during the day do not prevent them from dancing a tango at night while I am stacking zzzzs.So yes, if you have something similar going on, then it is quite possible that you had a dip and a rebound.Or you could have just gently drifted up a little.Impossible to do more than speculate, unless you have something like the Libre.Hope that helps.Oh, and did you spot that my bg was rising again approaching midnight that evening?  Nothing to do with food.  That day I ate at 7pm and was asleep before the bg rise kicked off.</blockquote>

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