[Constantin74]

If a t2 could give blood for 10 -12 hrs fasting BG test, and for A1c, at 1.00 or 2.00 pm, would the results be reliable and representative of his true status?
I have severe sleeping disorder; for the last 2 years I can not possibly fall asleep before 07.00 -08.00 am, and that only with medicine like Seroquel, to wake up at 13.00 -14.00. Even that sleep is not good, I never feel normal or rested.
(Without medicine, I wake two hrs after I fall asleep...)

My lab says they can not do BG test at 2.00 pm, it should be done in the morning, after night's sleep..
Giving the blood at 7.00 am before falling asleep is not an option because I feel terribly bad and my body is a wreck at that time, blood test be misleading. And my worn out body can not possibly endure fasting for 10 hrs during the night.. It's a vicious cycle and it is getting worse.
Skipped my A1C test for the last 6 months.

Any views on my situation would be most helpful. Thanks.

[Granny Shanny]

If I were you, I'd be talking to a supervisor at that lab, or finding a different lab altogether. You aren't the only day-sleeper in the world! Where is your doc in all of this? If he's ordered these tests, then he could be backing you up here. Fasting is fasting - regardless of which hours of the day it's done.

[genie86333]

Constantin,

I agree with Shanny...fasting is fasting! And I don't see why it would make a difference for blood tests especially if that's the cycle your body is on. I've done blood tests in the late morning after I get up & they've never said a thing.

And I just wanted to say I can sympathize...I have the same sleep problem you do, except I usually can fall asleep as "early" as 4 or 5 a.m. I don't know how I survived 3 years of working (day shift) at a high school, but luckily both of my jobs are evening jobs now!

[Constantin74]

Thanks for the responses. My doc says everything abt my health, including diabetes, will only get much worse unless I succeed to correct my sleeping pattern. I wish I could do that...
The problem is, all my life since early childhood, I have been the late sleeper type.. I have always enjoyed being awake late at night, slept at 2:00 - 2.30 am.. Now that I am nearing age 60 and not working in a day job, it got worse and extended to daybreak..
I will now search to see if I can get help from hospital therapies which are meant to put what they call "the circadian rhythm" into place..

[genie86333]

Originally Posted by Constantin74

I will now search to see if I can get help from hospital therapies which are meant to put what they call "the circadian rhythm" into place..

My dad also had the same type of issue & tried *everything* - sleep studies, biofeedback, even an attempt (advised by doctors) to "reset his circadian clock" by going to bed an hour earlier each day (and getting up after exactly 8 hours whether he'd slept or not) for 24 days straight until he got back to the time he wanted to go to bed ( not sure what good that was supposed to do since if you can't go to sleep at 10 pm, you're surely not going to go to sleep at 9 or 8 or 7...maybe an hour *later* each night would work.)

I hope they're able to help...if you do find some solution, let me know!