Another drop

[Lauras87]

I've had a few of these now & I'm getting puzzled.

Tested before bed 4.8 (anything in the 4's ill have 2 sweets just as a boost due to paranoia about hypos in my sleep where I don't wake)

Woke up feeling funny & when I tried to get up the room was spinning.
Got up & tested 3.1 - I feel like I've had a session on the booze (not that I have) so I assume my liver has partly kicked in

I don't get how this is happening when I had no fast acting since tea (which was 6ish) & I had 2 sweets to boost my bloods.

If anyone can help, it would be lovely as I'm getting more paranoid about sleep now

 

[Tina63]

Hi Laura

Sorry you are so worried. I am no expert, I have just replied as I am an insomniac and obviously the first one awake at this unearthly hour! I can't help you over your main question I'm afraid, I don't know enough to be able to advise, but the only comment I would make is that with a bedtime reading of 4.8 I personally would have suggested some slower acting carbs, not sweets. They would surely only lift you quickly then drop you quickly too, rather than something like a cereal bar/biscuit, or Northerner's sometimes recommended peanut butter sandwich. That would give a more gentle release of carbs into your system and would last longer too.

Hope you are ok and manage to get some sleep.

Tina x

 

[Lauras87]

Hi Laura

Sorry you are so worried. I am no expert, I have just replied as I am an insomniac and obviously the first one awake at this unearthly hour! I can't help you over your main question I'm afraid, I don't know enough to be able to advise, but the only comment I would make is that with a bedtime reading of 4.8 I personally would have suggested some slower acting carbs, not sweets. They would surely only lift you quickly then drop you quickly too, rather than something like a cereal bar/biscuit, or Northerner's sometimes recommended peanut butter sandwich. That would give a more gentle release of carbs into your system and would last longer too.

Hope you are ok and manage to get some sleep.

Tina x

Hi Tina.

I did think about a biscuit but I only have some left with nuts in & I can't eat nuts. So I'm digestives shopping today.

Hmmm sleep would be nice! Have been doing chores seeing as I laid for 2 hours & no sign of sleep

 

[Northerner]

Hi Tina.

I did think about a biscuit but I only have some left with nuts in & I can't eat nuts. So I'm digestives shopping today.

Hmmm sleep would be nice! Have been doing chores seeing as I laid for 2 hours & no sign of sleep

I've been lacking sleep for the past few nights too Why is it that you can go to bed feeling really tired, not get to sleep for several hours, then when it gets close to getting up all you want to do is sleep? Grr!!

Yes, as suggested, my mainstay was a slow release peanut butter sandwich or cheese on toast if I felt my levels needed raising a bit overnight. But sometimes these things can just happen for no reason - last night I had been in bed 2 hours and felt a little strange, thought I might be just very tired and falling to sleep (at last!) but decided to test and I was 2.8! This is despite me having no lantus and my last novo injection was 7.5 hours earlier - it normally never lasts longer than about 5 hours in me.

Some people experience seasonal changes in insulin requirements, so who knows, the longer daylight hours may be affecting you, or it may just be a one-off mystery. Hope it doesn't happen again any time soon!

 

[Lauras87]

Me too northerner!!
Was a bit worrying when I woke as I nearly turned over.

I hadn't thought of eating cheese on toast before bed or that.

 

[Vix]

Sorry Laura I can't be any help (mine are doing the opposite at the mo - sky high, just when I was getting them under control in the morning) but hope that you feel better soon!! Whether's it's right or not (I'm debating it isn't for me) I've been told to have a snack before bed even if my sugars are 13 (!!!) to stop any night hypos... and it actually seemed to be working for a few days, but now I woke up at 13.5, and they've gone up to 13.7 despite adding a correction dose

xx

 

[megga]

Its no form of exercise is it? a good wonder round the shop, long walk that kind of thing. With me i know if i do too much (and i often do) my sugars can drop for 36 hours.

 

[Lauras87]

Its no form of exercise is it? a good wonder round the shop, long walk that kind of thing. With me i know if i do too much (and i often do) my sugars can drop for 36 hours.

I'd repotted 4 plants & a walk round the garden centre which I've done before with no hypo

 

[trophywench]

I think I'd knock at least a unit if not 2 off my Lantus if it was me.

 

[Lauras87]

I give in!!!

I tried a slice of cheese on toast before bed, I was 7.3.
I've just tested now & I'm 4.1.

This is the 6th major drop in the past 2 weeks.

It's safe to say D is winning & I'm off to go sit in the corner

 

[Tina63]

Oh dear Laura, sorry to hear that didn't work. I agree with Trophywench though, knock a unit or two off your Lantus, but give it 2 or 3 days to settle to see where that takes you. What have your morning readings been likes these past few days? Mind you, if you have had to correct a hypo in the night, they aren't necessarily going to be true fasting levels. Time to do that though, knocking one or two units off (we were told rule of thumb never alter Lantus by more than 10% at any one time) should makes some difference in a day or two.

I bet you feel exhausted, mentally as well as physically and as they say, there is no break from this, it's relentless. Hopefully it is just an annoying blip and in a few days with some slight adjustments you will start to feel in control again and altogether better in yourself when you manage some better sleep.

 

[Lauras87]

I'm currently talking 44 units, i was having 40 units but my waking bloods weren't great so have gone back up.

My bloods now are 8, I can never manage to get them that lowish after lucozade, it's usually in the teens

I'm shattered, I've been told I look tired. Just want sleep & not to go to work