Insomnia and anxiety since diagnosis

[everydayupsanddowns]

When you say dropping by 1.7 do you mean even if I have a snack? Or based on no snack?

My feeling is that ideally you shouldn’t snack to ‘feed’ insulin and prevent a hypo. John Walsh (author of Using Insulin, and Pumping Insulin) suggests that if you have only basal active (you've eaten your eve meal 4-5 hours earlier) your night time basal should hold you steady so that you don’t rise or fall by more than 1.7mmol/L over the night.

It sounds like you are regularly snacking to artificially increase BG levels and *still* nearly going hypo - so I wonder if your basal shouldn’t be taken down a notch or two?

 

[trophywench]

It doesn't involve fasting except between meals ! Thing is you can't do the full 24hrs at once, so you divide the 24 hrs up into bite-sized chunks, to suit the size of your own mouth!

The old advice on how to tackle any mammoth task was to ask the question How do you eat an elephant? and the first instruction was Divide your elephant up into bite-sized chunks.