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GD mommies on bedtime insulin - what time do you take it?
I set a time of 10pm to take my bedtime insulin. I usually can finally eat dinner around 6:30-7, so my last fingerstick is 8:30-9. I eat my bedtime snack after that - usually around 9:30. I wake up in the morning around 6:30.
The endo increased my units from 12 to 14 yesterday - and this morning my fasting was 96. I just don't get it. Does my timing look off? I see my endo on Friday, so we'll discuss it then I'm sure.
Thanks in advance!
Sara 
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Re: GD mommies on bedtime insulin - what time do you take it?
I was never told that timing was an issue, I am just supposed to take my NPH right before I go to sleep (no set time every day). It goes into "effect" 6-8 hours after taking it. So if you sleep an 8 hour night, as you are, it should be okay assuming your dosage is set correctly.
I have found that I have to keep increasing my dosage daily/weekly on all my insulin because it gets harder to control the further along I get. This might be your problem. I panicked when I started taking anything above 10 units, until I talked to my diabetes counselor who told me there are people on 70-100 unit dosages and my measley 15 or so units is fine. You can't overdose on insulin, it is just a matter of finding out what works. But like I said you might have to adjust it at any given day.
I took mine anytime between 9:30 and 10:30 (usually right around 10:00), woke up at 6:00 to test and never had any problems.
I'm sure it's nothing you are doing...
Try no to worry too much...I developed type 1 diabetes as a result of being pregnant last year. As a result, I have learned a ton of information and unfortunately become way too familiar with how frustrating this can all be. I am now expecting our 2nd, as a full blown diabetic...so I get it.
As long as your fastings are under 100, you and baby are fine, your bedtime insulin will start to work somewhere around 2 hours after you take it, and peak 6-8 hours later...it doesn't necessarily matter when you take it. Please feel free to ask me any questions..and hang in there!!!!
I had to keep upping my NPH until my fasting numbers stayed under 90, until about 28 weeks and then I had to decreased the number of units for 3 weeks and for about a week or so I have taken the same units every night. I just try to take a day at a time.
I take it around 10:30p-11p and i test usually 7:30a-8am. So far so good.
Just had to comment - YES you can overdose on insulin!! It will send you too low!! Did you mean something else by this??
yes, sorry I did mean something else. What I mean't is to not be afraid to increase it if your numbers are high. I know that you can overdose in the sense that your numbers get too low, I chose my wording badly.