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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marie 2" data-source="post: 2650321" data-attributes="member: 475037">DP, or Dawn Phenomenon is a release of hormones pre waking usually around 4-6 am. Those hormones release glucose before you wake to supply your body energy and get it ready for the day. It's just in "normal" people they make insulin to use that glucose and Type 1's don't. Those hormones also cause insulin resistance for a few hour after too. Type 2's can also be effected by it because they are insulin resistant, so it happens to them too. All sorts of things have been tried to help it, but it really varies per person what or if anything works.  There is also FOTF, or Foot On The Floor, very similar to DP, it's a release of hormones/glucose after you wake. That can be right when you wake, or after you first put your feet on the floor, or after an hour or two and you have been awake and start moving around more. It also causes insulin resistance for a few hours after. You can have one or both.Besides higher settings in my pump basal rate I also have a higher I/C ratio for the mornings.But as a type 1, you soon understand your body just decides to do things at any time............ and we like to blame it on what color socks we wear for the day.@LindeePops My BG level spikes when I take a warmer/hot shower too. It can be really significant if I take one in the mornings. My solve has been learning to take a lukewarm shower at night and then it hardly bothers me. On a very very small study of type 1's it turns out it's a 50/50 split on showers. 50% have a BG rise and 50% have a BG decrease.[USER=566270]@Alan-58[/USER]  It sounds to me like you might need a bolus adjustment, your I/C or insulin carb ratio might be off. If you get your bolus right, you might need less basal too. The best way though is to usually start with a basal test. You fast for periods of time to see if your basal amount is right. Once you get your basal right, then it's easier to work on your bolus ratio amounts.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mysugr.com/en/blog/basal-rate-testing/[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mysugr.com/en/blog/carbohydrate-ratio-calculating-and-testing-made-easy/[/URL]</blockquote>

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