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High Fasting Blood Sugar Levels

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macker

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Hi my overnight fasting blood sugar levels are around 7.5 to 8.5. This is after usually about nine hours fasting . Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reduce this?
 
macker said:
Hi my overnight fasting blood sugar levels are around 7.5 to 8.5. This is after usually about nine hours fasting. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reduce this?
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What sort of foods are you eating? If you follow a LCHF diet then your BG should fall, but the morning fasting BG level is the last to fall. If you stick with it the numbers should fall in time. Meanwhile, you could try having a small carb snack just before you go to bed. It can sometimes work by tricking your liver into not putting a glucose burst into your bloodstream in the morning. It's the bodies way of providing you with energy for the new day, which is great unless you are T2 diabetic.
 
I'm not convinced that the small carby snack before bed works to lower Dawn Phenomena. If one sleeps for 7-8 hours that snack has been and gone before dawn.
 
macker said:
Hi my overnight fasting blood sugar levels are around 7.5 to 8.5. This is after usually about nine hours fasting . Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reduce this?
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are you sure that you are actually spending the night at these levels. I regulalry gt to 7.5-8.5 for a short period in the morning following the dawn effect but I can see that the rest of the night it was under 5.00 from the freestyle.
 
macker said:
Hi my overnight fasting blood sugar levels are around 7.5 to 8.5. This is after usually about nine hours fasting . Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reduce this?
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What worked for me was to extend the fast to 12-16 hrs for a couple of days in a row...ie skip 2 dinners.

It helps to clear out the excess glycogen store in the liver...
 
Freema said:
MOST PEOPLE CAN GET NORMAL NUMBERS IF THEY EAT LESS THAN 150 GRAMS OF CARBS IN TOTAL DAILY
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MANY CAN'T!!

(Sorry for the caps...trying to be a bit funny). But I eat less than 50, and often less than 20, but still get high morning readings after anywhere from 9-12 hours fast....it will usually drop after 3-4 hours though (still fasting).
 
Nexus6 said:
MANY CAN'T!!

(Sorry for the caps...trying to be a bit funny). But I eat less than 50, and often less than 20, but still get high morning readings after anywhere from 9-12 hours fast....it will usually drop after 3-4 hours though (still fasting).
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Try something very fatty as soon as possible after getting up. That may stop the continuation during the morning. A coffee with double cream may be enough. It was for me.
 
I would go with @Bluetit1802 post and suggest you tell us a bit about where you are in relation to meds, diet, weight and testing results through out the day. Fasting levels are often the most stubborn with DP being an added factor.
 
Guzzler said:
I'm not convinced that the small carby snack before bed works to lower Dawn Phenomena. If one sleeps for 7-8 hours that snack has been and gone before dawn.
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Yeah. Dawn phenomema is likely due to poor liver control of glucose over-released into bloodstream and insulin resistance. There are a few ways to improve this, exercising regularly, eat less carb to reduce liver glycogen, reducing the waistline and hence the fat around the internal organs, increasing lean body mass, and taking metformin.
 
From my reading the actual mechanism which causes the increased insulin resistance and sometimes raised BSL in diabetics happens in everyone.
Cortisol and other hormones are released about 4 am or so. In non-diabetics the pancreas gland releases extra insulin in response to blood sugar starting to rise. The blood sugar stays in range.
In diabetics our ability to handle such a rise in blood sugar is compromised and shows up.
 
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