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    Type 2 Dawn Syndrome ?

    Information is power! Understanding leads to empowerment, so thanks for relating your experience, it helps me build a picture of "normal"
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    Type 2 Dawn Syndrome ?

    ;) The comment was tongue in cheek, but thanks for recounting your personal experience with that.
  3. W

    Type 2 Dawn Syndrome ?

    Liver training eh? I don't suppose alcohol can be used for that ;) I did take some consecutive early readings to confirm the Dawn Syndrome, mine seems fine at 4am, but starts to rise after 5am. I keep a fairly detailed "food diary" of morning and evening readings, food consumed, sleep quality...
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    Type 2 War between painkillers and Gliclazide.

    Sadly Robaxacet Extra strength is not available in the UK. Sorry to hear that you have so much pain and for so long.
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    Type 2 Dawn Syndrome ?

    No food after 17:00 eh? That's a tough one for me because due to one thing or another I usually end up eating at 19:00. I'll see if I can pull that back to 18:00. Cheers
  6. W

    Type 2 Dawn Syndrome ?

    I see, well thanks for the information. It would have been nice for my GP to have explained it like that. Having gone from between 11 and 13.5's down to between 5.5 and 7.5 I was concerned about what seemed to me to be a high spike with zero food input.
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    Type 2 Dawn Syndrome ?

    Hello you fine people My bloods sugar rises during the night when it should be falling !!! A bit of Web digging turns up "a little understood" phenomenon called Dawn Syndrome. The advice is the "speak to your healthcare professional" BUT! When I spoke to my doctor, she dismissed it as "normal"...
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    Type 2 War between painkillers and Gliclazide.

    Sorry for being so late to the party. I am in a similar position to the OP, which is why I was looking for the answer to the NSAID vs Gliclazide question. Upon prescribing Gliclazide my GP told me she was not happy to continue my Indometacin which I had been on for 14 years without any issue (I...
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