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<blockquote data-quote="michaeldavid" data-source="post: 390320" data-attributes="member: 57211"><p>The responses you report are clearly unhelpful. As for the first one, a hypo may wake you the first time; but I wouldn't count on it. As for the second, it's better to wake with high blood-sugar than not to wake at all.</p><p></p><p>I would urge that you to get your insulin regimen changed tomorrow, if possible. (If I were you, I would insist on it.) But I am not a medical expert, so I can't advise you on that.</p><p></p><p>However, it's easy to check on the piece of paper inside the pack that the insulin comes in: this will tell you the length of time that the insulin takes effect. It's effect will always describe a form of bell-curve. I ensure that the effects of the two fast-acting insulins I take, Actrapic and Novorapid, run out together - at around midnight. So I can go to bed safely at 11.00pm; because so long as I haven't eaten anything that's slowly-digested earlier in the evening, then I know that my blood-sugar will fall by a further 2mmol/l. And if my blood-sugar is, say, 4mmol/l at 11.00pm, then I know that half a slice of the co-op's wholemeal bread (with some Marmite or other yeast extract) will cover that.</p><p></p><p>I remember all too well the fear that you feel. You certainly are not worrying too much about that.</p><p></p><p>But equally, you don't need to worry at all about waking tomorrow with high blood-sugar. That still happens in my case, occasionally.</p><p></p><p>I hope you'll find that reassuring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="michaeldavid, post: 390320, member: 57211"] The responses you report are clearly unhelpful. As for the first one, a hypo may wake you the first time; but I wouldn't count on it. As for the second, it's better to wake with high blood-sugar than not to wake at all. I would urge that you to get your insulin regimen changed tomorrow, if possible. (If I were you, I would insist on it.) But I am not a medical expert, so I can't advise you on that. However, it's easy to check on the piece of paper inside the pack that the insulin comes in: this will tell you the length of time that the insulin takes effect. It's effect will always describe a form of bell-curve. I ensure that the effects of the two fast-acting insulins I take, Actrapic and Novorapid, run out together - at around midnight. So I can go to bed safely at 11.00pm; because so long as I haven't eaten anything that's slowly-digested earlier in the evening, then I know that my blood-sugar will fall by a further 2mmol/l. And if my blood-sugar is, say, 4mmol/l at 11.00pm, then I know that half a slice of the co-op's wholemeal bread (with some Marmite or other yeast extract) will cover that. I remember all too well the fear that you feel. You certainly are not worrying too much about that. But equally, you don't need to worry at all about waking tomorrow with high blood-sugar. That still happens in my case, occasionally. I hope you'll find that reassuring. [/QUOTE]
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