High fasting blood glucose levels

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Asked for Male, 64 Years

Dear doctor my father's glycemic control throughout the day with Apidra and Lantus is quite good and remains normal. But as he takes 3U of apidra with lesser amount of carbs any day the blood sugar drops to 80-90 mg/dL within 2 hours. Then to prevent any chance of hypoglycemia at night during sleep he took 3 milk caramel chocolates and after that when I measured the morning fasting sugar after 8 hours the blood sugar spiked from 80 to 234 mg/dL. I don't know the reason behind this. Please explain and provide necessary suggestions for the same.

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Dr. Varunchandra Alur Diabetologist 10 yrs exp Davanagere · Accepted Answer

Dr. Varunchandra Alur

Diabetologist 10 yrs exp Davanagere

If sugar report are consistently low then need to reduce the insulin dose. Taking chocolates has raised the fasting sugars. So it’s better to reduce the reduce the insulin dose.

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