Checking blood glucose

[50568789]

I'm type2 using insulin twice daily. In the last couple of years I've found my awareness of impending hypo has almost gone and it's on me before I feel anything is wrong, usually if I've been more active than normal and maybe not eaten when I should. A couple of jelly babies does the trick to help me get back to normal range. My concern is about night time hypos. I manually check blood glucose before breakfast, dinner and bedtime, then at least once during night. I find I am often having to eat when I don't particularly want to in order to keep bg to a level where hypo unlikely, even then, don't always get it right. It preys on my mind during the night , and have had too many close calls when bg has crashed during sleep, even if it looked OK going to bed. Seems like a Libre monitor would be the answer, but can't get it on NHS, and not happy about the cost of self subscription. Any advice or experience on this topic?

[MSFlea]

I was having mine starting to crash during the night and was completely unaware, my type 2 had gone into remission and I had no clue it was acting back up, they put one of the monitors on me, but didn't tell me what to do to counter my sugar dropping in the night other than eat at the time, of course, and I had completely forgotten all my diabetic education from before. I asked my aunt who is diabetic and her nurse happened to be at her home at the time, she told me to not have sugar close to bedtime and to have a protein snack right before bed until I could get to my endocrinologist appointment and see what she said. The protein snacks and no sugar did the trick for me. I know everyone is different, and it depends on what kind of snack you have, but that is what worked for me. But I am not using insulin, and that may factor into it as well, so take that with a grain of salt. Best of luck to you.

[50568789 in reply to MSFlea]

It very much depends on what I ate for dinner. If it was fish or chicken, the risk of night hypo is higher. If it was carbs high, probably safer but that means my bg levels will be higher than they should and causing damage. But thanks for your input, I will certainly start looking for a protein snack for before bed, I need to balance this out.

[Boxroad]

I find a slice of bread at bed time helps me through the night as it’s a slow release carbs