Low bloods at night.

[Filignano]

I am finding my bloods are around 7 before bed. I usually have to eat something (slice of toast) before bed so I don’t have a hypo during the night. In the morning my bloods are around 15?
Any ideas on what else to eat to keep bloods lower.
Type 2 and take insulin.
Walk every day or work in the garden for fitness

 

[Kaylz]

What type of insulin are you on? I'd suggest you call your team and talk with them, the fact your waking at 15 suggests that the toast is probably too much carbs to take on board so maybe try something else, I use digestive biscuits personally, it may be that your needing to reduce insulin but if you've never done that yourself before then you must talk to your team about it xx

 

[Filignano]

Appreciate the feed back very kind of you. I use Humulim 3 and will try digestive biscuits for sure.
I don’t have a team to call in relationship to insulin only my local GP surgery. I will enquire where the local team are.

 

[Kaylz]

I believe that's a mixed insulin, have you been told you need to eat a certain amount of carbs at certain times? Mixed insulin isn't very flexible at all, I'd call your GP xx

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hello @Filignano

Sorry to hear you are experiencing regular hypos. This certainly sounds like you need to have a conversation with your DSN of you’ve not been shown how to adjust doses yourself - as @Kaylz says, Humulin M3 is a 30:70 mix of faster-acting and medium-acting insulins (the faster part is supposed to deal with meals, while the medium part deals with glucose trickled out by the liver between meals, and mops up any mealtime leftovers). It’s likely that you are still producing some insulin yourself too, but you may not be using insulin very efficiently (sometimes called insulin resistance).

Regular hypos are never fun, and can lead to you losing your warning signs over time, so you really need to get this sorted, but eating to ‘feed’ insulin isn’t a great idea.

It may be that a more flexible system which allows you to separate background (nighttime) insulin from the extra you need at meals would really help you. We have several T2s on that system like @Ljc who might be able to help.

 

[leonS]

I would suggest that you do a BG tests in the middle of the night, set an alarm clock for say 2 am. If this is higher than your BG when you went to bed then you have eaten too much CHO.

If the BG is low then the problem is too much insulin (or not enough CHO) The body's reaction to a low can send the morning BG very high.

Two or three such test results will be invaluable to your health care team or your GP. when they eugest changes to your treatment.