Testing in the middle of the night

[cgsmichelle]

The nurse suggested to me that I set my alarm for a few days at about 3 am and test. I have been waking up with headaches. She thinks I am dropping in the night. Anyone else ever do this?

Thanks

[shabbie6247]

i tend to wake at that time anyway for the toilet run, so sometimes i check my bg while i'm up as well. :sleep:

[JediSkipdogg]

There's numerous reasons you could be waking with headaches...however...a diabetic reason could be you are either rising or dropping extremely fast. The only way to verify that would be to test sometime at night to see what you are running then and then to test when you wake up. This will help to see if maybe you are running 50 at night and then going up to 150 at 8 am. The sudden change is then a headache for your mind. It generally shouldn't happen for a type 2, but in the diabetes world anything is possible.

[tanyatype1]

Sometimes I wake up with a slight headache but I think it's from my need for caffiene! As soon as I get in my first cup of coffee, I'm good to go! I know that's bad but oh well! :)

[princesslinda]

I have done this before to check for dawn phenomenon and had lower blood sugars (once it was 60)around this time but my fasting would be 115-120. Now I eat some protein before bedtime....my fastings still aren't as low as i'd like them to be consistently.

[lgvincent]

I've been checking between 2:00 and 3:00 each morning for many years since I tend to go into insulin shock around then.

[rzrbks]

Could be that either your physical activity pattern or eating pattern (or both) might be causing you to drop in the night.

Headaches are, generally, a sign of rapid change in B/G.

That being said, now that you've been D'xd, Diabetes will be the First place that Medical epople will look when something is not quite kosher. They tend to balme Diabetes first then go looking elsewhere-----that's just something to be aware of.


So it might have nothing to do with Diabetes.

[Penny]

I was doing the same thing for several weeks, before I decided to test. Turns out I was going very low. Then I would be high when I got up a couple hours later. I went back to eating a small snack before bedtime, and it helped.

[ant hill]

The nurse suggested to me that I set my alarm for a few days at about 3 am and test.

For me to do that i would stay up and test or i would need nukes to wake me up. :T

[kate]

If a person was not diabetic, would they go "low" in the middle of the night?

Would the person experience "Dawn phenomenon"?

Some of you watch your levels very closely as you are in need of doing so for various reasons.

Myself, I check now only when I feel off. Maybe thats not such a great thing.

But, I don't worry about going "low". I've never been "low" except when on Glyberide which now I don't need to take.

So, my comment here is really, if you're a type 2, and you're experiencing 'low's" whether at night or at any other time, I suggest going to the doctor.

It could be a matter of changing meds not just eating habits.

It could be something totally not related to diabetes.

I hope you get over the night headaches and whatever causes them.