Hi
@fullenglish22, For those on insulin, we find fasting BSLs useful to check how our bsl/insulin balance overnight has been like. There may be several reasons for a high fasting bsl and we tend to correct them if we can.
I agree that BSL spikes after meals are important to measure and deal with, but we do not wish to have high bsls potentially for 6 to 8 hours overnight either.
I suspect the increase in use of continuous monitoring devices is partly to do with monitoring what happens whilst we sleep.
Of course where one's pancreas gland is functioning sufficiently well to not need extraneous insulin administered the emphasis is I read mainly related to meals.
The question I have is when does someone who has T2D know when they need to start to monitor their bsls more intensively or is it a matter of seeing what one's HBA1C is (provided the doctor regularly orders it) !!