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Group 7-day waking average?

pav said:
Afternoon all, been a few days since I posted, this morning a surprising 4.2 🙂 been in the 5.0's and 6.0's some days.
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That's really good Pav. How about the rest of the day?
 
AlisonM said:
That's really good Pav. How about the rest of the day?
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Before bed last night 12.1 :(, before lunch 6.1 around 3 hours after lunch 6.1, looks like its going to nose dive before tea.

Not been testing as I normally do, to much rubbish going on with family illnesses and trying to get info out of the hospital.
 
4.6 this morning, did register a 4.1 at 5pm so had a few carbs to make sure no further drop. My morning basal is work in progress 🙄
 
12.9 - 22:32pm - bedtime
- teatime QA taken at 20:31pm - chinese for tea: prawn fried rice/curry sauce
- no snacking during the evening (ie from teatime onwards) & due to a late tea then 4 rich tea biscuits (23.6g cho) & 5 rolos(18.1g cho) (41.7g cho) after bedtime test
10.3 - 7:43am - fasting

- another hypo before tea - 3.8 - lunch was 11.3 at 15:57pm
- 2nd day of reducing lantus
 
whiskysmum said:
12.9 - 22:32pm - bedtime
- teatime QA taken at 20:31pm - chinese for tea: prawn fried rice/curry sauce
- no snacking during the evening (ie from teatime onwards) & due to a late tea then 4 rich tea biscuits (23.6g cho) & 5 rolos(18.1g cho) (41.7g cho) after bedtime test
10.3 - 7:43am - fasting

- another hypo before tea - 3.8 - lunch was 11.3 at 15:57pm
- 2nd day of reducing lantus
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What lantus are you on now Gill? Your levels are quite steady overnight on the face of it, but you are consuming quite a lot of fast-acting carbs at bedtime, which is then 'mopped up' by your lantus, presumably. My concern would be this: you are quite high before bed, the biscuits will then spike you up into the 20s I would guess, then your levels gradually fall overnight until you are somewhere close to what you were for your bedtime test. That spike will not be doing you a lot of good, and will be raising your HbA1c as it seems to be happening most nights (i.e. you have 30-50g carbs without QA insulin mst nights). Ideally, what needs to be happening is that your bedtime level is around 7 or below, you don't have any extra carbs, and your waking level will then show whether you are still on too much lantus. Personally, I would look to changing those pre-bed snacks to something without carbs, like cheese or cold meats, if you don't want to inject QA before bed. If you really can't do without carbs before bed then you need to get the lantus right by doing a few nights without any pre-bed carbs, then concentrate on injecting a safe amount of QA for the biscuits etc. you would like to eat pre-bed. This is the only way you will get your lantus at the right level and also prevent any spikes during the night.

Hope all that makes sense! 🙂
 
Yes Alan that all makes sense & thanks.

Re what lantus am I on now - 22u reduced from 24u
 
I don't think I really need to say it but it was 5.6 again this morning. Maybe I should reduce my breakfast insulin a bit though, as I had another post meal hypo. Just a little one at 3.6 and it came back up again fairly quickly.

Which is good because I needed to make my monthly journey to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription. 7 pages of forms to sign with all the stuff on repeat, and I needed just about everything this month so my backpack was chock full! But at least Dr Idiot has given me the new strips without a quibble.
 
was 6.3 before bed and woke up at 4am with a hypo (2.7). Woke up this morning at 7.30 and was 9.4......(ok, I admit I *might* have helped myself to too many sweets 🙂....)

I always aim to go to bed within normal range (6.5 - 8) and 9 times out of 10 when I do, I wake up within target. I hardly ever get hypos at night -does anyone have any ideas as to why it happened - esp. given that I was (more or less) within target before bed?
 
Northe would say it's the Diabetes Fairy Cleo. I just happens sometimes and there doesn't always seem to be a discernible reason.
 
AlisonM said:
I don't think I really need to say it but it was 5.6 again this morning. Maybe I should reduce my breakfast insulin a bit though, as I had another post meal hypo. Just a little one at 3.6 and it came back up again fairly quickly.

Which is good because I needed to make my monthly journey to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription. 7 pages of forms to sign with all the stuff on repeat, and I needed just about everything this month so my backpack was chock full! But at least Dr Idiot has given me the new strips without a quibble.
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I reckon that 5.7 was a dud, you should have re-tested 😉

Good to hear you managed to get all your stuff! 🙂
 
AlisonM said:
Northe would say it's the Diabetes Fairy Cleo. I just happens sometimes and there doesn't always seem to be a discernible reason.
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Thanks Alison! I'll have to have a word with that bl**dy diabetes fairy lol, or maybe just try to exercise a bit more will power when treating a night time hypo 🙄......
 
4.7 - 22:46pm - bedtime
3.1 - 7:23am - fasting - 4 jelly babies & 15 minutes later 6.3

- 3rd day of reducing lantus
 
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