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Sprogladite

Sprogladite

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For the first time today, I've managed to keep my sugars relatively within range for the WHOLE morning. Have had a nightmare with getting my basal insulin switched, and it's finally happening tomorrow - yay!

Woke up at 3am last night to eat 2 x chocolate biscuits (otherwise I descend into hypo territory) - woke up 7am to a 7.9, went up to 10.0 after breakfast but back down to 5.7 an hour later. Still cruising along in the 5s now (have swiped so much on the Libre that I won't post them all lol) - most recent 5.4! :D

Bearing in mind that while being on Lantus I typically wake up to LO reading (or very low 2s), rebound up to high teens/low twenties, manage to get that down by lunch and then spend afternoons in 9ish sort of levels I'm pretty pleased to have stayed in the 5s for several hours now.

I tried something new for breakfast which might have something to do with it, I'm also ill at the moment so again, might have something to do with it (although it normally has opposite effect lol), either way just pleased I've managed it and I've seen for myself that my body CAN do it LOL 🙂
 
Well done. That's amazing.

What did you do for breakfast by the way.
 
Excellent. 🙂
 
Amberzak said:
Well done. That's amazing.

What did you do for breakfast by the way.
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Thank you, I know it's just one morning but I've been struggling for such a long time now, really hoping getting my basal changed will be the first step to getting things under control 🙂 I had a sausage and egg bake - really easy to make - just cooked the sausage meat and some onions in a pan, whisked some eggs, threw in some parsley, poured into a tin and baked for 20ish minutes. I made enough to last this week so we'll see how results compare for tomorrow 🙂
 
Welll done Sprog thats an achievement .
 
sunny sanghera said:
Well done I tend to dig in chocolate biscuits if bit low before I sleep does the trick
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Thank you 🙂 I've tried that, if I do the biscuits before I go to sleep I will hypo at around 3am and stay hypo until I wake up (normally at around 7am so for a good 4 hours!). Waking up at 3am to eat seems to be the only way to avoid waking hypos and then a big fat rebound lol! Hoping new basal will eliminate this 🙂
 
Sprogladite said:
Thank you 🙂 I've tried that, if I do the biscuits before I go to sleep I will hypo at around 3am and stay hypo until I wake up (normally at around 7am so for a good 4 hours!). Waking up at 3am to eat seems to be the only way to avoid waking hypos and then a big fat rebound lol! Hoping new basal will eliminate this 🙂
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Your welcome ahhhh yeah I have experienced my fair share of hypos during the night and had paramedics in my room as i was having a severe hypo and rushed to a&e not pleasant at all luckily it's not happened again so far and I make sure my levels are over 5 before I sleep 🙂
 
sunny sanghera said:
Your welcome ahhhh yeah I have experienced my fair share of hypos during the night and had paramedics in my room as i was having a severe hypo and rushed to a&e not pleasant at all luckily it's not happened again so far and I make sure my levels are over 5 before I sleep 🙂
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Oh gosh that sounds traumatic! I seem to go low but I stay levelled out in the low 2s until I wake up, when I then treat (which causes the rebound). If I go to bed without eating anything I have to be in the low 20s to make it through the night without a hypo - and obviously don't want to be doing that every night!! However I don't really want to be waking up at 3am for the rest of my life...I did my time with my son for the middle of the night waking up, no more broken night's sleep for me thank you! Haha 🙂

Several years ago (like, more than 10 years ago) I was told my BG should be around 9 when going to bed if worried about hypos. However, this came from someone who also told me I needed to eat carbs to keep my sugar levels stable soooo...make of that what you will LOL :confused:
 
Sprogladite said:
Oh gosh that sounds traumatic! I seem to go low but I stay levelled out in the low 2s until I wake up, when I then treat (which causes the rebound). If I go to bed without eating anything I have to be in the low 20s to make it through the night without a hypo - and obviously don't want to be doing that every night!! However I don't really want to be waking up at 3am for the rest of my life...I did my time with my son for the middle of the night waking up, no more broken night's sleep for me thank you! Haha 🙂

Several years ago (like, more than 10 years ago) I was told my BG should be around 9 when going to bed if worried about hypos. However, this came from someone who also told me I needed to eat carbs to keep my sugar levels stable soooo...make of that what you will LOL :confused:
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Yes it was especially the second one ahhh as i was out cold for a few hours then they put a glucose drip on me and I was awake adjusting my lantus has helped but I still get low levels in the day at times more so when am active and moving I dare go to sleep tho without eating something as to scared incase goes low eating one biscuit holds it for most the night that seems to work for me
 
Sprogladite said:
For the first time today, I've managed to keep my sugars relatively within range for the WHOLE morning. Have had a nightmare with getting my basal insulin switched, and it's finally happening tomorrow - yay!

Woke up at 3am last night to eat 2 x chocolate biscuits (otherwise I descend into hypo territory) - woke up 7am to a 7.9, went up to 10.0 after breakfast but back down to 5.7 an hour later. Still cruising along in the 5s now (have swiped so much on the Libre that I won't post them all lol) - most recent 5.4! :D

Bearing in mind that while being on Lantus I typically wake up to LO reading (or very low 2s), rebound up to high teens/low twenties, manage to get that down by lunch and then spend afternoons in 9ish sort of levels I'm pretty pleased to have stayed in the 5s for several hours now.

I tried something new for breakfast which might have something to do with it, I'm also ill at the moment so again, might have something to do with it (although it normally has opposite effect lol), either way just pleased I've managed it and I've seen for myself that my body CAN do it LOL 🙂
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Well done :D
 
Well done sprogladite. One day in range after the difficulties that you had is great.
 
Cheese used to help me with the nighttime hypos for some reason.
 
Feel like throwing myself off a cliff this morning. Appointment with nurse to get my basal insulin changed went something like this:

Arrive - sit down - tell nurse why I want to change insulins - have nurse tell me she can't do it

OH MY GOD. SERIOUSLY. I specifically phoned *after* making the appointment to check that the nurse could do this and the woman made a big deal about going off to check and then comes back and says yes. WHY. WHY TELL ME YES WHEN THE ANSWER IS NO.

Now have had to call another flipping phone line and leave a message and just hope someone calls me back. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. 😡😡😡
 
When my basal was changed recently it took a few weeks to sort out too. DSN said she had to write to my GP to ask him to agree to the change and write a prescription for it. Luckily my GP agreed, very frustrating indeed, no joined up thinking and all the while I'm struggling with hypos and hypers 😡
 
Lucy Honeychurch said:
When my basal was changed recently it took a few weeks to sort out too. DSN said she had to write to my GP to ask him to agree to the change and write a prescription for it. Luckily my GP agreed, very frustrating indeed, no joined up thinking and all the while I'm struggling with hypos and hypers 😡
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Yes, this has been going on since February now. I'm having to wake up at 3am every morning to avoid waking hypos, I really don't want to be doing this!! And the flipping nurse had the cheek to tell me I needed to do another hba1c (even though my last one was in March...) which is pretty freaking pointless while im on the wrong basal and by sugars are leaping about like a stag on crack!!!
 
Kaylz said:
Changing the point slightly but that just cracked me up haha xxxx
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Lol it seemed like an appropriate comparison haha xxxx
 
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