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Whats happening at night?

cockneyred

cockneyred

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Location
Essex
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi - Can anyone offer a reason for this? I have been Type1 since I was 13 (I'm now 51) I take 3 x Novorapid Penfill shots during the day and my bg remains reasonably steady between 4.5 - 7.5.
I test before bed about 11 pm and get a result of maybe 4.5 then take my nightly shot of Insulartard Penfill but I constantly awake on about 14 - 20. I have no carbo intake after about 7pm.
I have quite high insulin doses (30 units in every shot) but it doesn't matter how high I increase the nightly insulatard I still awake high - any ideas much appreciated :lol:
 
Hi Cockneyred, welcome to the forum. The most logical explanation I would give is that as your pre-bedtime bs reading is 4.5mmol/lt, sometime during the night you are going hypo, and your liver is over compensating for this by dumping large amounts of glucose into your system. But as you have been a diabetic for nearly 50 years, I would have thought you would know all the ins and outs of living with diabetes, and this seams to me to be too obvious and answer to your problem.

Is this a recent problem, have you changed something in your daily regimen?
 
If you find you are going hypo in the night, switching to one of the newer long-acting insulins (Glargine or Levemir) might help. They have a much flatter profile of action than the older ones, less likely to cause a dip in the early hours.
Sue
 
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