Hi
i was told the same thing and I am the same way
I hated saying good bye to my nosh before bedtime
I discovered that i had a heck of a time sleeping and I blamed it on not being able to eat i discovered however it was due to my sugar being all whacked out once my sugar got down and got normal I am now able to sleep again so bear through it for a couple days Honest it does get better.


What is your late night reading before a snack??
I was always told by the diabetes class that any thing i choose should not raise my sugar more than 140 150.
So make sure to check your sugar before eating (make sure the snack is 2 hours AFTER dinner) and than 2 hours after eating the snack check it again to see how much a spike is happening.


Personally I did leave all my snacks go for a while and had a tea before bed or a glass of milk.

Now though that my sugar is back in order I allow myself something small and light before bed
a low sugar small yogurt, 5 cheese and crackers, or peanut butter crackers or a half bagel
I try to do it as i said 2 hours after 3 hours even after dinner and I do not have anything else.

However be aware I KNOW these foods in these amounts do not shoot my sugar up you need to learn what does and does not shoot yours up. the only way to learn what works with your system is testing
Also i try to keep my snacks within 15 to 20 carbs i have two snacks a day
for a snack and my meals are 20 to 30 MAX carbs a meal 3 meals a day

As long as I stay in that I keep it pretty level
I only recently started following that advice gain and am glad i did because my sugar was out of whack in the 300's for too long.

Your snacks are 'cheats' for me. 1/2 bagel has almost 30 carbs alone. I was told BS shouldnt be any higher than 120 before bed (not that mine is always). What is your A1C test numbers ?

i can't eat at night because of acid reflux . when my daughter had gestational diabetes last year the dietition had her eat a light snack before going to bed so that she would have a good morning reading .

They say that eating your large meal at noon would be better for all of us then eating large at dinner, Because most of us just eat and watch tv no activity for the body. Some people even eat late at night and then go to bed which they say is even worse
Very easy to snack in the evening even if were not hungry. I think TV commercial suggest go get food. It is hard to break that habit and only have something light
Checking BS will tell you how much you can snack or not. I usually eat half a whole graham cracker just before I go to bed to carry me through the night so sugars don't drop, half an apple with peanut butter, or crackers with cheese as April said.

Hi, and thanks for the advice, I will be going for more test shortly ,but my own readings are in the 140 range at night. My sleeps not too bad, but the thirst in the morning is something new.

All this monitoring is tedious I think I need to get some diet sheets and stick to them!
Regards

Lizzie I too deal with the Acid reflux due to my Hepatitis C i am battling. It is a pain in the rear i am on Prilosec and i have already raised my head of my bed with bricks. i make sure to have my snack at least 2 hours before bed.

Arline this is why i tell everybody who asks me to take a few weeks and do the testing and food diary to learn what they can and can not eat.
i have met folks who never checked what worked for them they just go by books or forum posts and assume what spikes one will spike another and it is not always try.
Some things some eat will work for others
my new snacks i eat too are sardines, pickled beats, pickled egg, (I made my own fresh the other day without sugar and using splenda i was so wanting some and never made them. i did a trial run to see if they spiked then tested to see how many I could eat and well It works I can eat like 8 slices)
pretzel wheels i got to watch how many with a lil cream cheese on them just a little

i take medicine every morning for the reflux too aprill ,and i don't dare eat at night. my daughter told me that she read if you eat dill pickles with your meals it will help keep you blood sugar down .i'm going to try it .

Never heard about the dill pickles.
I love pickles. I am going to give that a go too

As far as the monitoring being tedious Yea it is but once you get a idea of what is what you do not have to test as often.

Its not necessarily pickles you should eat to keep BS in control. Its the vinegar in the pickles. That's why they say you should either (1) have a salad with oil and vinegar with dinner) or (2) drink a TBS of cider vinegar mixed with water before dinner. The acid is supposed to lower BS. I did the cider vinegar bit for a while and then forgot about it. I should start again.

I never keep a diary or weigh food. I guesstimate. After a while you just know what you can and can't eat. I'm going to a luncheon and theatre Wed afternoon and I expect to cheat. BUT for dinner I will just eat veggies to counteract what I had for lunch. That's the way I balance the good with the bad.

I could do the salad vinegar , we have a salad with our meal almost every night .

what dressing do you use - don't tell me blue cheese !

i hate blue cheese dressing . i make my own . i use oil and vinegar a little salt and lots of garlic and a small amount of splenda . i also use ranch . but since you said the vinegar was good i will use my oil and vinegar every night .

I like to have a snack in the evenings as well. I try to be good and make it something that's got more protein than carbs and a few carbs. I know several of you have mentioned eating hard boiled eggs or pickled eggs, but I simply cannot abide egg yolks straight. To me, they're as bad as tofu. Ughhh and double ughh. So, I eat the white and give the yolk to my dog. He loves it when I boil eggs. He's 14 years old and a big dog, but he comes running when he hears the sound of me cracking the egg shell.
My husband and daughter like their breakfast eggs with a slightly runny yolk and I can hardly watch them eat it. Guess it's just one of those weird little food quirks.
Now, pickles. I love 'em. Dill and sour only please though. Another little tidbit about pickles and the brine. I thought it was just an old wives tale, but I read about drinking the pickle juice to help with relieving leg cramps. When I was having such a horrible problem with them I gave it a shot and was actually able to sleep for more than an hour at a time for a change. Apparently it's the magnesium in the brine that helps. For a while I felt like a pickle juice vampire, draining the juice off the pickles as fast as I ate them. My husband was beginning to wonder if there was some other medical issue going on the way I was scarfing down the things. I reminded him that my tubes were tied and we very much safe on that count. :)

I take Prevacid every morning now. I am sure it is the meds that have upset my stomach. I have read about taking vinegar but no one ever said it worked. I love salad and used to eat one every night with my meal with olive oil, vinegar salt and pepper. Can't say it did anything as far as reflux. Sometimes I get bad reflux sometimes not. But the Prevacid has seemed to work really well.

April you do what we all should do as far as checking what works and what doesn't. No it isn't easy but it certainly is worth the effort when you think that down the line, people that don't check or don't care lose their feet or legs or worse. So when you think about the concequences it certainly is worth the effort it takes to find out what is what with the foods we put in our bodies. Checking is something I slacked off on but I am getting it back on track now.

I have been under a lot of stress lately. I also deal with an active alcoholic and he may or may not be going overseas. The stress has been a lot for me raising my bs. I started on Glimepiride about 10 days ago. I point blank asked my doctor if there were a chance of weight gain from retaining water and she said no. Today she said she never told me that and that if her methods of treating me were not to my liking, I should find a new doctor. I sure am frustrated about this and need some advice. I'm looking on my insurance web for a new doctor now. The doctor also told me that they lost my urine sample which the doctor said I needed blood work because of high protein in my urine. I got scared because on DS some people reported kidney damage due to taking Metformen so long. I've been on it for over 15 years. I was wanting to respond to the topic about night eating. I too have the dawn phenomenon. About acid rephlux, if you go on that web site called "Great Taste No Pain" you can eliminate the Prilosec and Nexium buy following a few simple rules of foiod combining.