change in blood sugar levels

[hurley78]

I am borderline diabetic! I check my sugar levels regularly. How can it be that a reading at 8.30pm is 7.3 and then without eating or drinking anything my reading in the morning is 7.4?

 

[urbanracer]

I am borderline diabetic! I check my sugar levels regularly. How can it be that a reading at 8.30pm is 7.3 and then without eating or drinking anything my reading in the morning is 7.4?

Possibly meter error,or liver glucose dump, or the precise timing of your measurements with respect to eating, or the actual food you ate and its glycemic index.

One, more, or all of the above. Unless you are getting bloods checked at a lab, I'm afraid its a dark art, and not a science.

With the minimal information you've provided I'd go with the liver dump theory. Your liver store glucose and dumps it when you need it, often early in the morning.

Welvome to the forums.

 

[4ratbags]

As stated above it is most probably a liver dump but definately worth keeping an eye on.

 

[bades1978]

I am borderline diabetic! I check my sugar levels regularly. How can it be that a reading at 8.30pm is 7.3 and then without eating or drinking anything my reading in the morning is 7.4?

Don't even worry about it at ALL if you did the blood test again I would say 99% of the time it would be different to the time before it with a few seconds time passed the measurement is 0.1 different well within the error limit of the strips or meter.