Feet to the floor bg rise

Good Morning,

Any advice will be appreciated...

T2 diabetic, diet controlled. Keto diet and intermittent fasting either 16:8 or omad.

Diagnosed 4 weeks ago, HbAc1 of 51.

I have have been using a freestyle libre CGM to monitor. Thought I would buy a couple for 6 weeks to help see what I can tolerate ect.

My levels post meals never rise more than 2mmol and never above 7.5.

However I think I have ‘feet on the floor’ glucose dumping. CGM shows steady blood glucose though the night (around the 4-6) range, then soon as my alarm goes off and I wake up and reach over to my phone and scan my bg is anywhere from 7.2-8.5.

Any help with this?

Will it resolve by bringing down my hbac1 over time as I am newly diagnosed?

As I intermittent fast, should I eat in the first part of the day rather than later on?

I don’t want to take any drugs, I want to put this into remission.

I’ve looked up about the dawn phenomenon, but I don’t get the liver dump in the night, it is on waking what ever time that is 6am, 7am 9am.

Many thanks.

Goonergal said:

Very likely, yes. The early morning reading is usually the last one to come down (and for me, the first one to go haywire if I wander off plan). Mine took at least 6 months to fall inline with other readings and it’s still usually the highest of the day. If you’re getting good pre and post meal readings they’ll be the best guide of how you’re doing.

Sounds like you’re doing all the right things and making great progress.

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Thank you for the reply. Yes, I am hoping that eventually that will come down if I keep the day in check and lower.

I suppose that before diagnosis I don’t even want to imagine what my numbers would have been post meals as I’m now on 20g carbs a day.