Correction dose not doing anything

I've noticed lately that if I am high before bed and during the night and I correct, it doesn't alter my BS i.e. this morning at 4.30 I was 12.8, took 3 units then at 8am I was 11.8. It doesn't seem to matter what time of night I correct either. Does that mean I have to increase my Lantus? Could it be eating something before bed that causes the digestion to slow and therefore the Novorapid can't work properly I do suffer from IBS. When I wake up in the morning sometimes I am 6 or 7, then other times I am double that. When I've done 3 am tests recently my BS has been fine, so I'm thinking my Lantus must be ok. I'm so confused, I almost dread going to bed because of what my sugar does during the night. Can anyone help?

There must be a reason if you are waking up and are around the 14-16 mark!? You said you are sometimes within 6-7, without changing your BI( Lantus). It's hard to tell without looking at a BG diary over a course of week!? We can try to see a pattern + then tackle it head on!!

Hi Diane, this sounds slightly similar to me. I've just recently been told dawn phenomenon is probable. For weeks I kept thinking I must be doing something wrong so was a relief to find out it wasn't anything I was doing! I was advised to check my sugars every hour from 3 AM-6 AM and found it's around 6:30 my sugars start to rise. Eating 5-6 pistachio nuts at 5 AM seems to help me keep them down for a few hours then I take my BI and QA, still a work in progress but hoping it's going in the right direction and hope you manage to get this sorted for yourself

Hi Diane,

It certainly sounds like dawn phenomenon could be a possible cause of this. The conventional wisdom considers the higher BGs in the morning to be preferable to night-time hypos. If you are finding your BGs are consistently good at 3 am, then your BGs are only high for a few hours for those last few hours of sleep, so don't worry about it too much.