I've wondered this as well, since my son doesn't seem to wake up with lows. His teacher who is T1 (d

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There is so much talk here about how often we check our kids overnight for hypoglycemia it got me wondering what do adults with Type 1 do? Do they set their alarm clocks to check their BG or do they have this all figured out by the time they reach adulthood? Maybe this is a question for the "Adults with Type 1" board. Dawnsmom
Actually I wonder express post tracking this myself too. I was diagnosed type 1 March 2006 and I am still honeymooning and only on bolus. I fear the day I need basal as well becuase I cant imagine having to figure myself out at night when I am already worried about my little one at night! But sometimes if I give a bolus before bed as a correction I do set my alarm clock to wake up and check that everything is good.
My DH (thankfully) wakes when BG is low. So he will get up, treat, and then go back to sleep. He usually tests before bed. Otherwise he doesn't check in the middle of the night. Unless for some reason he has to test his basals.
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I only set my alarm to check during the night if I injected more than one unit of insulin within three hours of going to bed, and/or was hypo within an hour of going to bed. I also have insomnia and if I just happen to be up in the night, I check. I take Lantus in the mornings, and for me, it peters out by night time and every time I've had a night time hypo, my lantus dosage was either WAY too high and I'd been running express post tracking hypo every few hours the previous day, or I'd had a Novolog injection within three hours of going to sleep.
I set my alarm and get up at least once each night. The only time I do not set an alarm is once in awhile when I will go to bed higher than usual and know that the drop would have to be extreme to cause problems. i.e. If I go to bed above 130 and do not correct at all and have little IOB from dinner in my system. This is maybe a couple of times a year. I have a CGMS and that helps but I still always do at least one wake up and often two using my alarm. Ali Type one 36 years. pump and CGMS
I've wondered this as well, since my son doesn't seem to wake up with lows. His teacher who is T1 (diagnosed in her late teens) says that she wakes up with lows. I'd be curious to see a CGM. Maybe it is just because adults don't have as much of the fluctuating hormones express post tracking as children do. I don't mean to change the subject but it is sort of along the same lines...while talking to a T1 neighbor this weekend, I mentioned that my son had started pumping. She and her husband express post tracking looked at my sons pump and asked a few questions (they weren't real familiar with them). Then I asked if she was on lantus, she nodded, and I said something like, "oh, and humalog or whatever...so you are carb counting?" express post tracking She shrugs and says, "well, not really like I should be". I didn't really say anything, but was kind of stunned, and very curious as to the amount of (or lack of) control that some people have. Don't get me wrong...we express post tracking do our share of guessing on carb counts, but I really got the impression that she just basically didn't count carbs. She is teeny tiny, so maybe she just barely eats She is a young mother...probably late 20's, maybe early 30's (diagnosed in college). express post tracking I would think that she'd want to take better care of herself...if not for her, then at least for her young child and husband. So often I feel like this is all a crapshoot. express post tracking I wonder if I worry too much, and what kind of message am I sending my child. express post tracking I want him to grow up with good control, but I don't want him to be obsessed, or for him to have diabetes control his life.
my life was a MESS for many years before they came out with CGMS. Getting up at 2 AM, 4AM, and 6 AM wrecked my sleep, I would "space walk" through the day. I had to sleep alone, of course. 3 different alarm clocks so that I could just shut them off, without express post tracking resetting them, after being wakened for testing. My wild jumps (up and down) always happen in the AM hours, many hours after I've eaten, and long after I've gone to bed. On nights when I REALLY express post tracking needed to get some decent sleep, and left the alarms off, I'd always go to bed with great fear. And way too often, that fear was well justified: I used to go through express post tracking 10-12 Glucagons every year. It was grim-- but the problem develop after abo