kemist
06-09-2003, 08:35 AM
High, I am 27 years old, and very physically fit.
I eat healthy and try to take good care of myself.
I am finding that after going through some seizures in the past (always during sleep) that I am terrified to let this happen again and find myself running high in the night.
Taking insulin to combat a low, or what not is so dangerous... I have seen what can happen.
For now I wake myself up every couple of hours to check myself or just kinda see how I feel before going back to sleep (kinda dangerous I know - a test is best), but you can imagine what a Crankpot this has made me - getting up all the time and having a crappy sleep. But the alternative is to run a little high and feel like **** in the morning because you ran a high sugar for a long period of time..... Yuch! feels just as bad as you all know.
Right now, I take about 10 units of Ultralente each night (around 10:30-12:30) and then take my Novorapid with each meal.
Is anyone else using a basal shot like this at bedtime?
Do you find that it is covering your sugar adequately?
Sometimes I will find that the U is not enough to handle the peaking sugar levels that occur around maybe 6-7am, but I don't want to take more U because that will give me a stronger BASIL rate for the entire day, I don't need that...
I used to take a few units of N along with the U at bedtime, but I found that it would kick in too early and send me into the lows at around 3:00am and mess me up. I don't want to have to get up at 2-3am and give an N shot then if I don't have to....
Anyone have any tips for nightime dosing of Basil, Intermediate insulins to keep sugars under control? Sometimes I like to sleep in and it's nice to not have to get up at see a 16.0 sugar at 10am and have to use Novorapid to push it back down..... I hate that....
any advice would be great!
thanks,
kemist.
PS - The pump did not work out for me, so I've got to make this work with shots. - thanks....
I eat healthy and try to take good care of myself.
I am finding that after going through some seizures in the past (always during sleep) that I am terrified to let this happen again and find myself running high in the night.
Taking insulin to combat a low, or what not is so dangerous... I have seen what can happen.
For now I wake myself up every couple of hours to check myself or just kinda see how I feel before going back to sleep (kinda dangerous I know - a test is best), but you can imagine what a Crankpot this has made me - getting up all the time and having a crappy sleep. But the alternative is to run a little high and feel like **** in the morning because you ran a high sugar for a long period of time..... Yuch! feels just as bad as you all know.
Right now, I take about 10 units of Ultralente each night (around 10:30-12:30) and then take my Novorapid with each meal.
Is anyone else using a basal shot like this at bedtime?
Do you find that it is covering your sugar adequately?
Sometimes I will find that the U is not enough to handle the peaking sugar levels that occur around maybe 6-7am, but I don't want to take more U because that will give me a stronger BASIL rate for the entire day, I don't need that...
I used to take a few units of N along with the U at bedtime, but I found that it would kick in too early and send me into the lows at around 3:00am and mess me up. I don't want to have to get up at 2-3am and give an N shot then if I don't have to....
Anyone have any tips for nightime dosing of Basil, Intermediate insulins to keep sugars under control? Sometimes I like to sleep in and it's nice to not have to get up at see a 16.0 sugar at 10am and have to use Novorapid to push it back down..... I hate that....
any advice would be great!
thanks,
kemist.
PS - The pump did not work out for me, so I've got to make this work with shots. - thanks....