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Fasting BG rising

michelle88

michelle88

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
My BG int the morning was usually in the high 4s to high 5s. This past week it's been in the low 6s and this morning it was 6.8! I'm not ill, not eating differently and not more stressed than usual so this is really confusing and worrying me. Any ideas what it could be due to? Thanks.
 
Hi,
there are many things that can higher bloods,
is your bedtime ones any different, could you be coming down with anything? stressed? possibly going hypo in the night? is it just the morning ones that are different?
 
Are you sure there's nothing different in your diet? Last time something similar happened to me it turned out the bottle of "wine" I'd bought was actually grape juice. I'd been happily drinking a glass of the stuff every night thinking I was de-stressing and actually raising my BG. I'd thought it was a bit sweet but embarrassingly failed to detect the complete lack of alcohol.

You're probably not quite that silly, but might there be something similar?

Kate
 
michelle88 said:
My BG int the morning was usually in the high 4s to high 5s. This past week it's been in the low 6s and this morning it was 6.8! I'm not ill, not eating differently and not more stressed than usual so this is really confusing and worrying me. Any ideas what it could be due to? Thanks.
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You may need to increase your basal insulin by a unit if you want to get back to where you were before, why not do some bg tests for the next couple of nights and test your bg 2 hourly, if you do increase your basal remember to test again just to make sure your bg doesn't go the other way and you end up hypoing in your sleep.
 
Hi everyone and thanks for your help! I just tested myself this morning and it's 7mmol :nailbiting:

noblehead, I haven't been needing any basal at all, do you reckon I need to start taking basal insulin? I guess if these numbers don't improve I will have to.

Kate, no, I haven't been eating or drinking any differently at night, actually my BG is mostly fine 2 hours after dinner, between 5 and max. 8.

Maybe it's stress, like totsy suggests. I had to go through a big move (country to country) and yes it's been a pain, but I've experienced worse than this so I'm not really sure.

So confusing :arghh:
 
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