dawn phenomenon

Hi all, So I’ve noticed after a couple of weeks being optimally medicated with levothyroxine that my dawn phenomenon seems to have just disappeared and insulin resistance massively improved. Like, overnight. Within 20 minutes of taking my morning pill the glucose readings stop rising to 6.5...

Hi everyone, new to posting but not to reading the forum :) wondering if anyone can shed some light on a problem for me... I've been type 1 for 21 years and have never really suffered from dawn phenomenon, but for the last month or so I'm waking every day with sugars in the teens no matter what...

I recently crossed from prediabetic to diabetic which I was controlling by diet. I then had a distal pancreatectomy losing about a third of my pancreas. Postoperatively the hospital put me on Lantus 10 units but the surgeon says that it still might be possible to control by diet or I might find...

During last year, my fasting blood glucose was getting higher and higher, sometimes above 115 mg/dL. Months before, I went to the lab and it was 97 mg/dL. I have a solid family history of mild to severe Type 2 and had a grand grand mother with Type 1. Hence, since last December I've decided to...

I am a newbie from Denmark. I have never been diagnosed with T2D. My interest, and also my concern, is due to seeing my wife who has been diagnosed with T2D 13 years back, including many complications. We have a long marriage behind us. I have read a lot and believe to understand quite a bit...

There is a mismatch between my meter readings and my A1c. During the winter I was eating pretty low carb c.20g daily but I had lots of health problems and sometimes had to take meds that can raise bg, so an A1c of 37 (down from a previous 41) seemed reasonable. I was confident that given better...

Hey guys, I had a look at some other threads and I couldn't find a clear answer. I'm having a small issue where when I wake up, my sugars are perfect, 6.6, say, but the second I get out of bed, without ingesting ANYTHING, my sugars shoot up to ~10. If I stay in bed, my sugars don't go up, but as...

Hi all, I used to have my mornings sorted out to near-perfection. I suffer(ed) from DP, so used to take 2u to counteract that as soon as I woke up. Then I had my breakfast at a 1:8 ratio with my jab taken just before eating, which has always kept me pretty much flat until lunch time (I use...

Hi I was diagnosed with T2 in Oct 17 with a HbA1c of 84 and put on Metformin, of which I should be taking 4 now but only taking one as I want to control this by diet and exercise [now walking 10k a day] So I'm self testing my BG and 11 weeks ago my weekly average was 10.90, for the past few...

Newbie here. Type 2, on insulin pump with Insuman Infusat. Anyway, for years now, I wake up several times a night and my blood sugars are in the normal range and I feel OK. But when I wake up in the morning, I feel so sick. Kind of a cross between a flu and a hangover. After a few hours, it...

Tuesday, 31st October 2017 A few weeks ago, I saw on SKY television here in the UK, that the FreeStyle Libre was now going to be available on the NHS, subject to approval by the local Health Authority. (See announcement here) As someone who is "on a mission" to reverse my Type 2 diabetes, and...

I have noticed that my BS readings actually INCREASE overnight - even though I am fasting. I have been told that it is the Dawn Phenomenon, and I need to find out more about it. Anyone got any ideas what causes it, and the best way to counteract it..?

In the past I have taken my first BG reading 30-45 mins after getting up.However reading a post on the forum suggested that the fasting BG should be taken immediately. So recently I have done that, and also done my normal later testing. Far from experiencing a rise in BG, the later readings are...

Hi, I am frustrated with my morning readings. I have been on tablets for 5 years, Glucopage 500 XR later glucopage 750XR twice daily(morning and night ..after breakfast and dinner) and Diamicron 60 mg in the morning after breakfast. my A1C used be around 7. I have been following LCHF diet...

Hi all! I've been diabetic for 16 years now, yet I've never really paid too much attention to my health until the last 2 or 3 months. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like I was doing too badly - however now I'm actually paying attention to myself I find this condition is pretty difficult to control...

Firstly i am not on medication, had read january 2016 of HAbc1 6.4 so i sore i was gonna change this naturally and not pay big pharma to kill me slowly. I was on LCHF diet for 8 months last year and lost 15 kilos and brought my Habc1 from 6.4 to 5.2 in 2 months felt amazing after 6 months on...

Thanks to my little bichon frise i'm still here and can write this post! Normally when going to bed I have a small snack of a Jacobs cracker with peanut butter as my BS is usually around 6-7 mmols and tend to drop in the night before the DP hits around 4am - I usually correct this when I wake at...

Hello everyone. Just want to share that within a year i have turned around the above (not diabetes completely, though secondary issues) through loads of research. Hope that this will benefit everyone here! To cut a long story short, which ideally should be a longer story; I will try and make...

Hi, Just had my blood results after 3-4 months on the LCHF diet and I'm a bit confused. My HbA1c was 6.1 which translates to an average of 109 mg/dl (a bit higher actually than last time at 6.0). However my fasting glucose count was way higher at 131mg/dl. This was taken at 8.30am. The last...

So over the last few months it would seem that my overnight BG's have just gone totally bananas... There's been no changes to my lifestyle that I can think would be of any significance to warrant this other than the effects of DP... My day time sugars are typically good, and in range enough to...