Okay, I admit it. I'm scared. I am so scared of a hypo that I have kept my sugars too high alot of times. Especially before bed. Even though I set my alarm for 1:30am every night, I still wonder, "Will I wake up if my sugar goes too low?", "Will I die?" Hypo unawareness really scares me. I have had diabetes for about five years now and I can still pretty much tell when my sugar is dropping but sometimes I check and it will be down to 45 and I will have had no symptoms at all. My schedule is very routine and I usually know when to check; before breakfast, then around 10am, before lunch, then around 2pm, before dinner, and then around 9pm.........it's those in-between times that get us all. I will check probably 3-4 extra times in-between just to be sure nothing "strange" is going on. The weekends are somewhat of a challenge because my normal routine is much different. More lax I guess. When I clean my house on Sundays, I can't keep my sugar up and end up drinking a sugary soda thoughout the whole day. Cleaning the house and grocery shopping are good things to do to get your sugar down!
I tried the Extend Bars a couple nights ago. My sugar was 95 before bed. I wanted to see if the nutty chalky tasting bar would level my sugars out overnight. Well, I checked again after about 45 minutes of eating it and my reading was 215! Okay, it's not supposed to give you a big spike as it says it only has 2 grams of fact acting carb. So........needles to say, I don't think those work very well for me. Dinner was nothing that would have hit me later so I contribute all the rise in sugar to the Extend Bar.
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Laura
Sorry to hear that you're going through this at the moment.
For the weekend stuff, you may want to just reduce your basal rates a lot. You may not think of it like this, but cleaning is really exercise.
As for not waking up when low in the middle of the night - I've had glycemic unawareness for some time now. Even when I'm very low at night, I wake up. Sometimes very low and very sweaty, but I do wake at some stage.
I hope you can figure out an approach that works for you.
I have the same fear for my son (type1 9yrs old newly diag).. The diabetes nurse educator basically said the same thing as Bernard... I check in on him all the time at exactly 1:30am .. exhausting... nice blog .. oh yeah she also said that peanutbutter on celery helps hold up #'s @ bedtime?? I'm new to this ~ figure anything out reach me at my blog :D
just as I pressed publish comment my son got up blood sugar 95 from 179 @ bed only 2hrs ago. He didnt know he was dropping he was too tired .. after reading this my anxiety got the best of me I did "the famous test incase.." symptoms... no shakes,alittle sweaty, and got up. Good enough for me! now I can sleep skipping that 1:30am calling ~ lets just hope the am #'s are good?he had 1cmilk and some fruit snacks..ugh.. our morning#'s are too high ALOT...
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