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[francis211]

t2 on met ram
6.5 going to bed
7.5 in am
i wonder why
tia

 

[sugarless sue]

Probably caused by the dawn effect.

http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowConte ... _0106.html

 

[IanD]

t2 on met ram
6.5 going to bed
7.5 in am
i wonder why
tia

When I had my last fasting blood test having only water from 11 pm -
7 am - 5.1
10:45 am 6.1

Dawn effect.

 

[phoenix]

When I had my last fasting blood test having only water from 11 pm -
7 am - 5.1
10:45 am 6.1

Its not quite the same as a rise in BG between sleeping and waking . Its more the effect of getting up and the liver pushing out some glucose to supply needed energy.
This effect makes a fasting blood test at a lab possible for me. I normally wake with a fasting of around 4.2-4.5mmol, but by the time I've reached the lab its gone up by about 1mmol, If I had a tendency to go down I'd hypo before I got there!

 

[lionrampant]

Each cheese at bed time. Like, white crumbly cheese.

Trust me.

 

[hanadr]

Dawn effect theory
This is one I've come across.
Primitive humans, often had to go hungry for quite a while before the first hunt of the day was successful. Since they didn't hunt or eat at night, a mechanism evolved to give them energy to overcome the effects of the nightime fast and enable them to get moving .
It's probably much more complicated than that and evolution doesn't strictly work that way, but it's a nice story.

 

[gillyh]

that makes a lot of sense hanadr

 

[Trinkwasser]

Indeed, there are diurnal variations in all kinds of endocrines. The big difference is that for normies the glucose dump is covered by an insulin dump and for us it is out of phase, aided by the increase in cortisol and the balance between serotonin and melatonin etc. etc.