Welcome to Diabetes Forums!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features.
Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
|
 | 
05-15-2007, 05:52 AM
|  | Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Guam
Posts: 163
| | | Testing in the middle of the night
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
__________________
Coincidence is God's way of remaining annonymous! |
05-15-2007, 05:58 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: north wales, uk
Posts: 629
| | i tend to wake at that time anyway for the toilet run, so sometimes i check my bg while i'm up as well.  |
05-15-2007, 06:03 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,369
| | | 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.
__________________
●Blue Ash, Ohio Police Dispatcher
●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
●Animas pumper since December of 2002
~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. |
05-15-2007, 10:02 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: B.C., Canada
Posts: 1,879
| | 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! 
__________________ 
Happiness isn't getting what you want.....
It's wanting what you've got.
Last A1C - 5.9
|
05-15-2007, 10:05 AM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 7,261
| | | 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.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
05-15-2007, 01:09 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
Posts: 4,847
| | | 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.
__________________
Brandy
My Little Princess
August 18, 1990 - May 3, 2006 
Say you'll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
Lead me, save me
from my solitude . . .
Say you want me
with you ,
here beside you . . .
Anywhere you go
let me go to . . .
Christine,
that's all I ask of . . .
(you)  |
05-15-2007, 03:46 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,321
| | | 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.
__________________
"I am wounded," he said, "wounded, and it will never heal."
Frodo to Samwise
|
05-15-2007, 04:37 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,696
| | | 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.
__________________
17 post cards from round 1
3 postcards from round 1/2
And 1 from Ed
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
Whitney Houston Greatest Love of All
|
05-17-2007, 03:59 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 3,118
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by cgsmichelle  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.  |
05-17-2007, 04:53 AM
|  | Junior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 50
| | | Question
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.
__________________ Kate
Diagnosed April 21, 2006 BG 22 
A1C 6.1 July 18/07
500 mg Metformin/2ce Daily
80 mg aspirin/1ce Daily
50 mg Metoprolol/1/2 2ce Daily
Chromium, Vanadium, Zinc, Coenzyme Q-10, B, C, Calcium and Brazil Nuts
Diet and Exercise (um.. yes, I did park a full stadium Field away from the store so I could walk today!) |
|
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | |
|  | | » Site Navigation | | Diabetesforums.com | | | Resource Directory | | | Contact Zone | | | |
