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Hey, welcome Sunny, glad you found us. I hate night time hypos, scary stuff. Have you ever thought about switching your background insulin? For example, on Levemir, you can split the dose and take some at night and some in the morning. This certainly meant I reduced my night time hypos.
 
Hello glad to be here I certainly could do with some help on this as the night time hypos don't feel good at all I have been on lantus since I was diagnosed I have been thinking bout changing to go on the pump never knew you could change the background one
 
Am looking to change to a pump soon too. However in the mean time I do think it might be worth a change to your background insulin. Mikey b on the forum has just made the switch and I believe it has been really useful for him in reducing his night time hypos. Do ask about it. Like Matt cycle, I went on DAFNE this year and they switched everyone who was on Lantus over to Levemir so that they could split doses and have better control. The course is also great if you want to go onto a pump.
 
Yeah I agree thanks for the info the lantus one seems like more hastle and the night hypos always leave me with a shaky feeling I wake up vomiting to when I have night hypos
 
Welcome to the forum 🙂
Definitely worth asking your healthcare team about going on a DAFNE course, or similar, it will certainly help with matching your insulin to your carbs, and is essential to go on one if you want to go onto a pump 🙂
 
Thanks nice to be here and I will ask them about it as I see a lot of people are on the pump but I guess am satisfied with the regime am on currently
 
The switch to Levemir from Lantus made a lot of difference for me. It meant that I could reduce my night time dose without changing my day time dose. That helped to sort out night hypos (which I spotted through morning highs from my liver dumping its glucose) Also if I knew I was going to be very active during the day I could reduce the day time dose.

Having said that, I like many others, I would never go back to Multiple Daily Injections now that I am on a pump. The switch to the pump has given me so much more flexibility with different ways of delivering my bolus insulin to match the types of food I eat and also temporarily changing my background insulin hour by hour.
 
Yes certainly some food for thought the multiple injections am use to that's why am thinking best to stick with what I started with but after these night hypos am thinking bout changing to the pump also if I go for walks my levels drop after 30 mins of walking which means I have to eat a sweet to bring it back to normal and when I go for walks I make sure i don't give much fast acting to give me more energy and the levels still drop as my legs go like jelly so can tell it's low
 
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