dawn phenemenon

Hi all I've recently found out that I'm around 5 weeks pregnant, following a miscarriage earlier in the year. I'm very excited but also super scared. I've undertaken pre pregnancy counselling earlier in the year as you should and have my first antenatal appointment booked. The past week, my...

Hello, I am 57 years young from Amsterdam. I was diagnosed June last year, first with T2D and later after an antibodies test with LADA. All my live I used to be very active and in 1997 my HbA1c was 5.4%. But then unfortunately I found out I was good at poker, which also means sitting for many...

Hi I recently joined the Low Carb Program and watched Dr Jason Fung's videos on there, who seems to be an advocate of intermittent fasting. I find if I go more than 5 hours without eating my blood sugars start to shoot up. When I decided to do the Newcastle plan last year my GP ordered me...

Hi everyone, So I'm feeling a bit at my wits end with my blood sugars lately, despite having my hba1c being 47, two less than last time. I'm not satisfied... I've just phoned the DSN to try and voice my concerns and I get told I'm doing fine and there are no concerns. The consultant says the...

Hello! At the start of the year I had my annual Hba1c test having had two Gestational Diabetes pregnancies which both involved Humilin I and Novorapid from week 8 of pregnancy with weekly increased doses. Anyway, hbA1c came back as 6.5%, right on the cusp, I wasn’t told that I was prediabetic...

Hi all, Apologies if this has been discussed recently I couldn't find a complete answer in my search. I've had GD twice, both times I was given Insulin to control my high morning readings (dawn phenomenon). There was a query if I was actually T2 but following my last pregnancy I was able to...

I have recently moved to levemir from Lantus in a bid to combat some unexplained spikes. My only issue is that I appear to suffer from both dawn phenomenon and foot on the floor syndrome ☹️. I have been splitting my levemir 20u at bedtime and then 18u on waking. This had helped to calm my...

Here’s an interesting article about DP & FOTF :) https://www.believethehypo.com/post/dawn-phenomenon-and-feet-on-the-floor-syndrome-the-inconvenient-truth

Morning all So I’ve always struggled with morning highs to a certain extent ( BSLs in the teens) which I’ve always put down to dawn phenomenon I’ve tried increasing my lantus dose but past a certain level I wake up with hypos at night The last few mornings I’ve woken up feeling very unwell with...

Does anyone know what happens when the liver is depleted of glycogen (or is very low on glycogen) and the dawn phenomenon kicks in during sleep? Does gluconeogenesis start converting fat to glucose to increase BG levels? In other words, does your body start shedding fat to feed the dawn...

I’ve recently started to have my diabetic reviews with a teaching hospital in Ireland, the second of such two days ago. Dismayed by the doctor’s tendency to see me as a statistic rather than a guy with specific difficulties, she changed my meds to address problems she thought I SHOULD have (but...