BGs
From: “Marius Calitz” <mariusc@…
At night you are less active and burn much less sugar than when
you’re awake, even if you did eat 8 hours ago.
…at least thats how I work it out.
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March 29th, 2003 at 8:15 am
In a message dated 9/10/99 7:21:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
wy236@… writes:
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The fact is that 8 hours is a fairly long time to go without eating. If I
eat breakfast at 7:00, I eat lunch around noon, then have an afternoon
snack around 3:00 pm, then supper at six, then evening snack around ten or
eleven pm, I’m eating every few hours. But not after I go to bed.
Iris
Thanks for explaining…….I was going to ask the nurse-practitioner when I
see her next Fri. She said, when I first went, that my sugar should be
between 80-120 after fasting and 110-140 at bedtime. I have yet to be under
120 in the morning. Never over 139. Bedtime I usually am between 85-111.
Therefore I am reversed! I am going backwards in a lot of ways in my life
anyway!
Christine
March 29th, 2003 at 4:27 pm
I don’t agree, on this list at least we can only go ahead, with friends
like these…who cares about enemas??
From: CMAG242@…
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“Darwin’s theory of evolution suggests that first came the baboon
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Marius Calitz
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March 29th, 2003 at 10:46 pm
OOPS, TYPO ALERT!!!
Should be *ENEMIES*
From: CMAG242@…
Date sent: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:51:45 EDT
To: diabetics@onelist.com
Send reply to: diabetics@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [diabetics] BGs
“Darwin’s theory of evolution suggests that first came the baboon
and then man. Politics is proving that it can go either way.”
mariusc@…
Marius Calitz
P.O.Box 7300
Newcastle
2940
KZN
Republic of South Africa
March 30th, 2003 at 3:12 am
In a message dated 9/10/99 8:26:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mariusc@… writes:
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From: “Marius Calitz” <mariusc@…
I don’t agree, on this list at least we can only go ahead, with friends
like these…who cares about enemas??
ENEMAS?????? Who needs them with this medicine!
Christine
March 30th, 2003 at 10:40 am
Christine,
Have you thought about the possibility that you are going low during the night.
With a bg of 85-111 at bedtime it is a real possibility. With an untreated hypo
during the night, the liver kicks in and DUMPS glucose into the blood. This
more than covers the hypo and usually ends up with a high fasting number. This
is just one possibility.
My morning numbers used to be really high until my dr and I decided to move my
NPH insulin from supper to bedtime. It made a huge change. Now, when I have a
high in the morning, it is usually one of two things: (1) the multiple cookies
and milk before bed was a *little* too much <g
night and my liver over-compensated.
Most of the time a low will wake me up during the night. People on another list
I subscribe to recommend testing when you wake up with symptoms (sweats, shaky,
etc.), but I just can’t make myself go downstairs to test and then snack. I
just trust that it is a hypo and eat two or three glucose tabs that I keep by
the bed. If I’m wrong about the hypo and just needed to kick off the blanket,
then the glucose tabs really wouldn’t make that huge of a difference in my
morning numbers. I would rather be just a hair high from the glucose tabs than
extremely high from an untreated hypo. If I’m not sure it’s a hypo, the clock
can help clarify. Most of my hypos tend to come around 3 a.m.
Of course, all this is just my experience and I’ll pass on the motto from the
world list - YMMV (your mileage may vary). Your best bet is always to get the
opinion of your doctor/nurse-practitioner.
Connie, T1
March 31st, 2003 at 11:25 pm
In a message dated 9/10/99 9:24:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
connie.hodges@… writes:
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Of course, all this is just my experience and I’ll pass on the motto from the
world list - YMMV (your mileage may vary). Your best bet is always to get
the
opinion of your doctor/nurse-practitioner.
Connie, T1
Thanks for the info. I am on glucotrol in am and at dinner I take glugophage.
I do wake up during the night and have felt fine. Tonight though I am going
to test and see what the story is. I go back to nurse/practitioner one week
from today and I will talk to her.
Thanks again,
Christine
April 3rd, 2003 at 4:05 pm
Iris, I guess I do not understand this. what kind of syndrome is this?
shelia
April 7th, 2003 at 8:31 am
Thanks Iris and yes that is the syndrome I am referring to. I know I need to
include some the infor from which I am replying , sorry I will need to start
doing that. I think that is why my sugars are high in the mornings. I have
always gotten up around 6am but since I have quit work and stay at home I am
going to bed much much later and sleeping much much later. I am not really
eating late at night, but do however drink a glass of milk before I go to
bed. I know its mental but for some reason I think the milk helps me sleep.
I have been blaming the milk on high fasting bs. What do you think? Thanks
Shelia