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What is your optimum night time level?

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smidge

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Type of diabetes
LADA
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Hi everyone!

I'm just wondering what everyone considers their optimum night time BG level to be. Over the last couple of months, I've come to the conclusion that my BG needs to be between 6.2 and 6.9 at bedtime. In this way I seem to achieve fasting BG in the 5s. If my BG is in the 7s or higher at bedtime, my fasting levels seem to be 6.7 or above. If my bedtime BGs are below 6.2, my fasting BGs will be above 7. Anyone else have a similar pattern?

Thanks

Smidge
 
If I'm high at night, say 6.8 or more, I'm always high in the morning. Other than that, itseems completely random! If I'm low at night I could be low or high in the morning. Guess it depends if I have a liver dump or not
 
At the moment I have to be at 12/13+ at night to avoid waking up hypo in the night or being low when I wake in the morning. I'm on lantus taken just before I go to sleep and I can't lower it any further without being high all day so I'm currently negotiating with my DSN to try a different basal...she insists that it is my evening meal bolus causing me to drop so much during the night but seeing as I almost always eat 4-5 hours before I take my lantus and go to bed I'm pretty sure it's that my basal isn't even over the 24 hours...xx
 
Depends on how close to the last meal, the time of my last bolus will affect what happens.
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My target is to be in the high 4s, low 5s in the morning. I use a pump. I do quite frequent checks at night and have used a cgms to see what's going on.
Once my dinner bolus has finished my glucose levels are almost flat for much of the night , just small wiggles up and down with a slight rise towards morning . So basically on a normal day with a bit of exercise I like to go to bed between 4.5 and 6mmol.

If I've had a few days of laziness BG will rise more and is also likely to be higher at bedtime, I'll do a tiny correction if around 7mmol.

If I've done a lot of exercise, especially if this was late afternoon or evening (which often ends up with a later dinner anyway) I have to be far more careful as my levels can fall a lot 5-7 hours after exercise. I prefer to go to bed at above 6mmol but also use a different basal pattern with less insulin per hour.
 
mines between 3.5 to 4.5 of a night and 4,0 to 6.0 in the mornings
 
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