Insulin changes

Here are some updates on how I've been decreasing my insulin dosages on this new diet.

My blood sugar keeps going low at night on this new diet. Last night at 1am, despite decreasing my Lantus insulin yet again (from 11 units 3 nights ago, to 9 units 2 nights ago, to 7 units last night), my blood sugar still went low! Down to 49 mg/dL to be exact. Granted, this may have been from the 4 units of Humalog I took at 7:41pm (that would mean a peak of almost 5.5 hours later...), but I am sure glad I have a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) to watch how I'm doing overnight as I make the transition to this low carb, high good fat diet.

This morning I decreased my Lantus as well (from 13 units 2 days ago, to 11 units yesterday, to 9 units today).

In summary, my original Lantus dosages were:

• Morning: 13 units
• Bedtime: 11 units

Now I have adjusted my long-acting Lantus insulin dosages to the following:

• Morning: 9 units 
• Bedtime: 7 units

So, in total, I am down 8 units of Lantus (!).

This may require some additional tweaking, as I have been running a little higher numbers today with the change. I've also been eating some grains, though, so that may need to change. I had a small bowl of millet with breakfast, and a few sprouted pretzels and sprouted bread with lunch.

The insulin decrease has also come with a small decrease in my body weight thus far (0.8 pound). Those 2 things usually go hand in hand, so if I am able to continue decreasing my insulin I expect my weight will go down as well. This would be a welcome change, as I could stand to lose a few pounds.

One other note in regards to the low blood sugars I've been having at night. Normally after I have a low blood sugar at night I would eat some carbs and it would be my blood sugar up to 140 or more, then stay there for the rest of the night, and around 4am or so my body has the "Dawn Phenomenon" whereby my blood sugar shoots up before I wake up.

That has not been happening these past few nights.

Here's what's been happening: I go low, I eat something (fruit + almond milk), my blood sugar goes up to almost 120 then it comes back down to normal range in the 80s and stays there all night until I wake up (no Dawn Phenomenon)! Here's an example photo from my CGM:




That is very odd to me because I wonder what is causing my blood sugar to come back down to normal. Lantus usually just keeps things stable where they are at. And all of my Humalog should not be affecting my blood sugar after 6 hours of taking it. It leaves me wondering: is it the chlorophyll?