Do you snack after dinner?

[LiveNormal]

Do you snack after dinner?

Hi, just wondering did you snack after dinner? How do you bolus? How near it is to your bedtime if you snack and what typically did you snack on? How does that affect your next morning BS?

We loved to snack after dinner. Our dinner time is normally at 2030hr. By the time we snack, it is typically 2200hr. We sleep at 2330hr. Very often, my next morning BS varied and sometimes a good spike (like before bed was 4.2 mmol/L and morning BS could be 17.8 mmol/L!!). Do I eliminate my snacking (typically fruits only)?

I started pumping on a MM722 with Humalog on 7/5 and am still playing with my basal.

[shiftzor]

Well snacking later in the evening becomes difficult because you can't test 2:30hours later, however your meal time ratio should be the same throughout the evening. Only way to find out if this is true is to test and test some more. It will only effect waking bg if you don't cover your snack carbs with insulin.

[Real4]

You bolus for all carbs, snacks or not. Your timing is awkward since you are snacking only an hour and a half after eating. At that point, you both still have a lot on insulin working from the meal and digestion going on. Very difficult to get a proper correction factor.

[NoraWI]

Fruit ALWAYS gives me a spike. Unfortunately, I love it but will never, never, NEVER eat any later than noon. And then it requires a BIG bolus. Snacking is never a good idea because it causes you to *stack* insulin -- take additional insulin before the previous bolus has worked its way out of your body. Very difficult to control.

[kgm0612]

I have always been a night snacker!. I typically eat dinner around 5pm. Between 6 and 6:30pn, my neighbor and I head out for our hour walk. When I get back, I test my blood sugar and depending on what I test at, I may or may not have a snack at that time. There have been many times where I've tested before bed (10pm) and was not within my "range", so I've had a snack and just gone to bed.

Karen

[Lizzie G]

not generally but if im hungry i'll eat and bolus accordingly. whilst i dont like the diabetes to rule my life, like many others have said i do prefer to go to bed knowing that i have dropped back to where i will stay overnight as if i get it slightly wrong on the bolus and am running even a fraction high i dont sleep well and wake up irritable....

[LiveNormal]

Thanks for all the replies.

Last night, I did an experiment. As usual, I took my dinner at 8.30pm and snacked at 10.30pm (15g carb of fruit). I gave my full bolus and before bedtime (11.30pm), my bg read 6.9mmol/L. Woke up 3.00am to test and it was a good 7mmol/L. Waking up at 7.00am and BG was at 5mmol/L. That explains why I got a high BG the previous morning when I went to sleep at 4.2mmol/L.

My overnight basal was tested before but it was during the 2nd half of my menstrual cycle when my body was full of progesterone (heard it can cause big insulin resistance). Now I am in my first half of the cycle, I guess I will need to adjust my basal accordingly.

Being a female sometime is harder in the DM world.

[nono87]

Its always advisable to go to be at 6mmol/L eliminates the risk of going low at night and waking up high the next morning. But its good that you have worked it out. :-)