Hypos at night

[christine.h]

The first day on Lantus was very good but I am getting night time Hypos two last night sent an email to the team daytime results are great and have got more energy

 

[Robster65]

If you're getting night time hypos, then it's probably your lantus too high.

But it could also be that you've overjabbed for your tea if you're eating a bit late and your bolus (humalog or novorapid) is still working into the night.

But you need to speak to your team (pretty urgently) to get things sorted or you'll need to adjust downwards to stop the hypos.

Rob

 

[Pigeon]

Hi Christine, sorry to hear that. night time hypos always scare me, even though I can drink Lucozade in my sleep now🙄

See what your team say. I had a similar problem with Lantus but the other way round - I could get good results over night but hypos all day, or high readings in the morning but good control all day. So I ended up switching to levemir which I take morning and evening (it lasts less time than Lantus) and I could take more at night than in the morning. It seemed to work for me, just thought you might like to know as it's something you could ask your team about.

Hope you get it sorted soon!

 

[christine.h]

I have just been taken off Levemir due to an allergic reaction it caused huge red marks also high bedtime results and even though I am on Novarapid two hours after eating it would not come down at least my day time results are constant thus I feel better its really a vicious circle I live on my own my results have been down to 2.2 one night then 2.9 last night no warning and then 3.6 4 hours later. I treated it with orange juice it is very frightening

 

[Northerner]

I have just been taken off Levemir due to an allergic reaction it caused huge red marks also high bedtime results and even though I am on Novarapid two hours after eating it would not come down at least my day time results are constant thus I feel better its really a vicious circle I live on my own my results have been down to 2.2 one night then 2.9 last night no warning and then 3.6 4 hours later. I treated it with orange juice it is very frightening

It is frightening to have night hypos when you are on your own - I am in the same situation. Definitely get in touch with your team to work out if you have too much lantus at the moment. What was your level before bed? When I was having night hypos I started having a slice of peanut butter on bread before bed - this digests slowly and helps to keep your levels up overnight. I have since reduced my lantus dose considerably and very rarely get lows with it now. How many units of lantus do you have?

 

[Robster65]

Just as a tip Christine, orange juice isn't the quickest to treat hypos.

The best is reckoned to be lucozade or regular coke, 150ml which contains 15g of glucose to treat a hypo.

Hope you can get things sorted.🙂

Rob

 

[imtrying]

Just as a tip Christine, orange juice isn't the quickest to treat hypos.

The best is reckoned to be lucozade or regular coke, 150ml which contains 15g of glucose to treat a hypo.

Hope you can get things sorted.🙂

Rob

but works for some people

OJ works brilliantly for me for example, and I know others it does too...but also aware of others it doesn't work for.

Just have to try different things and see what works for the individual 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Different insulins are all very different (of course!) so there is no guarantee that the dose on Levemir would need to be the same on Lantus.

Additionally their absorption patterns and duration of activity are going to be different so it may not (only) be the dose that needs tweaking - taking insulin at different times of the day will work better for different people. I had to take Lantus at breakfast time to avoid night time hypos even when the dose was the same. Others need to 'split' their dose taking it in two (not necessarily equal) parts approx 12 hours apart.

Hope you find the right dose/timing soon.