| 'Early Hours' effect
We've all heard of Dawn effect / DP whatever you want to call it. Many of us have it to some extent or another.
Whilst most people need less insulin during the first part of the night, I'm just wondering how profound the difference is because mine is shocking and explains why Lantus was giving me so much grief.
Most of the day, my basal rate hunts around 0.400 - 0.450 per hour. For DP, I need to up this to 0.500 though I suspect more would help (I haven't done a morning fasting test yet as I'm still perfecting the night one...). So all of these are subject to a bit of change, but they're not far out; I'm not getting unexpected drops or rises which I cannot attribute to bolus insulin or food. My night time one is more or less right I think as my 3.30am and waking BG were identical to my night time one 
At 10am at night, I turn it down to 0.275 which gives me a faint rise before bed (which is nice).
From midnight to 4am, it is down ot 0.075 per hour! This is the only way I can do a blood test at 3.30am and have the same number I went to bed as.... Does anyone else have a night time basal that dips to 16% of their 'typical' daily needs? It really does explain an awful lot about my night-time lows on Lantus...
Gary
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A poem about my Wonderously Wanton Basal (WWB)and it Felicitous Flirtations (and how I tamed its Wicked Ways)
...And through the night it's love is free
It whispers and it flirts with me
And then it takes me, hard and deep
Rolls over, farts and falls asleep
And I would wake up, feeling used
My body broken, bent, abused
But now I match it, hump for hump
I give it plenty with my pump 
Pumping with Apidra in my Animas 2020 since April 2008
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