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Group 7-day waking average?

6.2 for me
 
7.2 for me today
 
6.1 - bedtime
3.7 - this morning


- tea & QA @ 18.54pm
- BI done @ 22.04pm - 5th night of splitting BI - 14u instead of 28u when on one dose
- bedtime test was done @23.09pm & before having supper instead of after
- supper was butter puffs 4x
- after hypo & 4 jelly babies this morning was then 6.7
 
ahem. 2.6 today (manic reaction to attempts to work around 2 hours of cardio and toning classes last night)
 
8.8! grrr no matter what i do. Increase basal or novorapid always around 8-9 in the morning!😡
 
astbury1 said:
8.8! grrr no matter what i do. Increase basal or novorapid always around 8-9 in the morning!😡
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What levels do you go to bed at ? When do you eat dinner and what sort of foods?
 
Hi Benny

I suppose I do eat more of my carbs at tea time. Although I have tried to cut down as I realise I cant have as much as I used to. It is hard to say for definite with my levels at night as I always fall asleep before 4-5 hours is up. I have increased my ratio recently. It may be because I am very seditary in the eve. I have now started to bolus for beans and thing like this as DSN told me initially not too. I think I really need to try and stay up longer to see what actually level i am at before bed.

When I first started bolus/basal my mornings were around 7 so not too bad. I think it must be the bolus and not the basal as if I increase the basal and walk around a bit it never holds me🙂
 
astbury1 said:
Hi Benny

I suppose I do eat more of my carbs at tea time. Although I have tried to cut down as I realise I cant have as much as I used to. It is hard to say for definite with my levels at night as I always fall asleep before 4-5 hours is up. I have increased my ratio recently. It may be because I am very seditary in the eve. I have now started to bolus for beans and thing like this as DSN told me initially not too. I think I really need to try and stay up longer to see what actually level i am at before bed.

When I first started bolus/basal my mornings were around 7 so not too bad. I think it must be the bolus and not the basal as if I increase the basal and walk around a bit it never holds me🙂
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I find on my novarapid thats its important to know how much insulin is left in my system - so say if i test for bedtime 3 hours aftr i ate, I have about 10% to 20% insulin left in me from my dinner dose. I also then need to take into account the fat content from dinner. I found that I was eating too much fat at dinner and I was having a delayed spike when I was asleep then this carried through till morning. Just a couple of suggestions. Its imporntant to know where you are before you go to bed and whats happening over ngiht, before you can surely know why your levels are where they are before bfast. I used to suffer morning highs for years. Then managed to get them to your 8s and 9s and only recently managing to get better consistent 4s - 7s.
 
astbury - sounds like you'd benefit from doing a couple of overnight/fasting tests to see what your sugars are naturally doing overnight. I'd recommend leaving 4 hours between your last meal and starting the test (ie bedtime).

If you are eating a lot of carbs ain the evening then not working the moff (as you said you were quite sedentary in the evening) then that will likely affect things.
 
4.8 today...🙂
 
A 5.2 for me 🙂
 
4.4 7am . Might look good but forgot Lantus last night and woke 3am 15.8 !
 
8.4 this morning :(
 
What a dreadful day I had yesterday, I started out OK at 5.4 but fell to 2.6 while I was in town and struggled to get my numbers back up most of the day. That was the worst hypo but there was a 2.8 and two more in the threes before bed. At supper time I was 4.0 and had a digestive biscuit. Tested once more at bedtime when I did my insulin 13.1! The highest I've been in six weeks. I can only blame aunty as nothing else has changed. 5.3 this morning and I really hope it won't be another day like yesterday cos I feel like something the cat dragged in.
 
Hope it all settles down today Alison.

5.4 today
 
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