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I have tried eating scrambled egg, bacon, bacon and egg, nuts, coffee, celery, carrot, apple cider vinegar, cheese, orange segment and nothing changes the upward trend until about 11:30am and then it starts to drop, pretty quickly, so its about 7.5 ish to 6 ish in about 10 mins. Looks like I...

Has anyone worked out how to lower the blood glucose levels during the dawn phenomenon? I have a CGM and have tried loads of things to try and lower this effect, no luck so far other than to stop taking the 1 metformine per day before bed, this lowered it from a peak of 8.5 to about 7.5.

I play football and my BS will go upto mid 9s and stay there until I eat food, which could be an hour after football finished

I managed to get one, its been on for 10 days now, highly reccomended. You can clealy see what give you spikes and change what you eat. Also look at Jessie Inchauspé, but be carefull, you still need to limit the carbs because you will see with a CGM, you can still get spikes even with her...

Do you have rising levels from about 4am to 11am in the morning?

maybe, but when they are not even close how can you belive any of the results

I have given up on the testing, you might as well guess the number, I bought a cheap tester and an expensive one, and the readings are rubbish on both.

The first was not squeezed, does that make much difference then? So never squeeze?

Hello, I must be doing something wrong, Yesterday I took 3 readings from the same hole (not sure how you say this) and 2 this morning, and the readings were different. 6.9 7.8 7.1 and today was 5.7 7.8 How can they be different

6.3 @ 6AM looks like my diet might be working :-)

7.7 :-(

6.5 much better than the 8+ i have been getting

6.4 looking up :-)

7.8

Thank you

6.5 best readings far since November yesterday i had 6:30 porridge with added flax seeds 10.00 bag of salt and shake crisps 11:30 250 g fruit 12:30 250 g fruit 12:45 100 g Morrisons chilli seeds 1.00 40 g pumpkin seeds 2:00 bag of quavers 7:00 I had 125 g spelt pasta , homemade tomato sauce...

8.2 had 36 gms carbs yesterday

8.0 quite surprised its so high, only 48 gms of carbs consumed yesterday

How often and when do you test BG?

Comparing note would be a good idea