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High blood sugar readings in the morning.

Gappy Dangle

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I am a recently diagnosed Type2 (end of Feb 2014).
I have lost almost 1.5 stone since I found out. I am currently taking 2 metformin a day (also 2.5 Ramipril and 40 statin) but my goal is to come off the medication and control my bloods via diet alone.
I'm currently following the GI way of eating.
My DN recently gave me a glucose monitor and I have found it so helpful. I have however, been having unexpectedly high readings in the mornings which I wasn't expecting.
For example, the night before last my blood sugar was 5.6 at 10.30pm before I went to bed. My DN said I should be aiming for about 8 before I go to bed, so I had an apple and went to bed. In the morning my blood sugar was 7.6!!?
Last night I tested before bed and my blood sugar was 6.1, so with the night before in mind I decided not to eat anything. I measured my blood before breakfast this morning and it was 7.1!!??
Im at a loss as to what is going on, if anyone has any advice Id be very grateful!


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I think when your dsn said "aim for 8" she meant under 8 you are not on any tablets that will cause I hypo. So I wouldn't have had an apple to bring me up. My personal target is below 5.7 before I go to bed. You don't say what and when you ate before going to bed as this will have a some effect over night. I have found some foods take 3 or more hours before they start to raise my BG levels (ice cream is one of these). There is one other thing that may be happening and that is over night your body is using up its sugar so your liver is introducing glucose from its store. You do not say how long between you last meal and your breakfast measurement but I find I get this rise after about 13 hours (goes from 4.2 to 5.4 for me now).

Hope that helps
A
 
Hi Andrew, thanks for your comments.
I eat my last meal around 6pm and my pre-breakfast measurement was 8am yesterday and 9am this morning. I ate a salmon salad the night before last and had a slice of wholemeal pizza and salad last night, all around 6pm.


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OK so I would say you are getting a good fasting reading as it is 14 or 15 hours in between meals. By having the apple you did however reduce the gap from 14 to 12 so you may have been living of the digestion of the apple so your liver had not needed to release yet.

The whole meal pizza is going to be higher carb than a salmon salad so that will keep you elevated

Many things can effect your readings though. Did you sleep well both nights, hot or cold during the night there are many factors. Was the 7.1 close your fasting blood glucose test (if they did one) when you got diagnosed?

Do you only test when you go to bed and get up in the morning?
 
Hi. My fasting bloods were at 9 when I was initially diagnosed. I do test during the day and the bloods are usually around 5 before I eat and about 6-6.5 when I test two hours afterwards.
I am currently getting over a chest infection and am coughing most of the night at the moment so my sleep is not great at the moment.
Do you think I should go and see my DN about this or wait and keep testing?


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I would test the meals too, I think that pizza would have spiked you. this gives an idea
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045524.php

edit we posted at the same time, those meal BG look fine, That would normally put them 5-6 when you go to bed
it may be the morning liver dump from insulin resistances 'dawn phenomenon'
 
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may be cut some more carbs to get rid of your insulin resistance? the atkins induction diet
if that doesn't work in a couple of months. you could try fasting 5+2 or the hardcore Newcastle diet which mimics the effects of bariatric stomach surgery, which is almost an instant remission

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm
 
Hi GD and welcome

If you enter 'dawn' in the search box and tick titles only you will get lots of topics that discuss the 'Dawn Phenomenon' issue. Sorry I would paste a direct link but I'm on the IPad and it's a PITA to do!
 
Hi there I am looking for some advice. I am Type 2, which was diagnosed 4/5 years ago. I have Peripheral Nerve Damage caused by the Diabetes.

I cannot seem to get my Blood Glucose Levels down, no matter how hard I try. at present they are just below the 20 mark, sometimes up to 25 and all my Doctor seems to do is to increase my Insulin Levels which I am now on Two S/Release Metformin morning and Night plus 16 units of Insulin -PM and 14 units - am . I self inject using the Humulin Kwik Pen. I get very tired at times and It is all getting on top of me. Like I have said my Doctors just seem to do nothing for me other than that of increasing my insulin. My Celestial and B.P is always high. Does anyone else suffer like this
 
@jaco64 if you make your own thread people are more likely to notice it and respond instead of putting the question in the middle of another thread

Unfortunately I am unable to help you as I have no experience of this.
 
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