02/16 Jackson - Newly diagnosed - Help with getting tests at night please

Dyana

Dyana

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Hello.
Normally I am not up this late. I go to bed around 8:00pm and wake up around 5:00am.

J.D. was diabetic for 9 years,, and I was on this message board for many years back then.
He passed in 2014, so it's been about 12 years now since I've been on the Lantus forum.

I know, I still have to update my signature, I just haven't yet.
Jackson was diagnosed around Christmas time and we have been trying to follow the TR method.
He just went to 5 units tonight. He was mostly pinks an yellows before we started insulin, and as we increased, he's been mostly in the pinks, sometimes reds.

Tonight, he had his first yellow PS on his second shot of the increased dose, and I set my alarms as usual, and as usual I did not wake up to them. I woke up myself at +7 and fed him because he needs food and to eat. I don't like to feed him at +7, but...

Does anyone here, have any suggestions or experience sleeping through alarms, and how to solve the problem?

Now, that I'm up at 1:30am :rolleyes: , I probably won't go back to sleep all night, and will then be super tired tomorrow/today for work, which will make me sleep even more heavily tonight (tomorrow/tonight).
I guess I am old, but I know I need my sleep.
Any help with how to wake up in the middle of the night to test is appreciated. Thanks.
 
Have you tried drinking a large glass of water before bed? Do you have an autofeeder for him? If you did, you could get a +2 or +3 before bed and if he's not dropping much, let the autofeeder give him a later meal while you keep sleeping.
 
I have an old one, that I could put some batteries in. He's such a food fiend. I will try to set it up tomorrow during the day and see if he does not figure out how to open it.

I drink water before bed, but was in the habit of getting up at around 3:00am which is his +9.

Thanks for replying :bighug:
 
I tend to sleep through my phone alarms, but I have an Amazon Echo on my nightstand and those alarms always wake me for night checks. Maybe you need an old school alarm clock radio to jolt you out of sleep?
 
When I really need to wake up for something, I set two phones up with alarms. Just in case something happens with the first one (snooze it in my sleep, it dies, etc).
 
Tim & Pookey said:
When I really need to wake up for something, I set two phones up with alarms. Just in case something happens with the first one (snooze it in my sleep, it dies, etc).
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I used to snooze my phone alarm in my sleep all the time with J.D. when I was in my super comfy bed. I learned to sleep part of the night at least on the couch with my phone alarm on the coffee table and a plugged in alarm clock on my stereo speaker that I had to get up to turn off and that worked then...

Now, my phone alarm wakes me up just fine every morning, nice and loud at 5:00am, but that is when I'm used to getting up.
However, in the middle of the night I just sleep right through it.
One time when I was up anyway, I listened to the phone alarm and it did not seem very loud, not like in the morning. I then let it keep ringing without snoozing it and it rang for 15 minutes straight and then just stopped ringing for the rest of the night.

I need to replace this plugged in alarm that's still on my speaker. I think I heard it work only once. Any suggestions on a good loud one?
I'm thinking if and when I get a new plugged in alarm, I can set my phone alarm to go off 5 minutes before the plugged in alarm, and maybe that will train me to wake up to the phone alarm before I have to get up to turn off the plugged in alarm.
 
Oh, that’s a good point. I do keep the second one far enough away where I’d have to get up. Maybe someone else has a suggestion on a super loud one, that would probably be my next step.
 
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