Type 1 Confused

suk said:

Hi, I wonder if any of you experience this. I’ll wake up with a low blood glucose, say 4 and without me eating anything it starts to rise?

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Feet on the floor. It’s quite common. I usually get it on a Saturday morning. I get up but don’t do breakfast for ma6be another hour or so. I usually have a small amount of bolus to cover it.
You get out of bed and with the absence of food and insulin/ bolus your body / liver decides to supply energy to start you off for the day.
Eat breakfast and take bolus on rising usually prevents the occurrence.

Yep, really normal due to hormones. Happens every day. Just bolus.

It's a well-know effect, experienced by (all?) T1s. It's called the Dawn Phenomenon, it happens when the liver dumps some glucose into your bloodstream; because you've been fasting overnight and it's your body's way of giving you an energy kick.