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<blockquote data-quote="Grazer" data-source="post: 240219" data-attributes="member: 31362"><p>Sometimes there's nothing at all you can do. Before we wake, our liver drops sugar into our blood to prepare us for the day. This is known as the "Dawn Phenomenon". If you test the instant you wake, it could be a fair bit lower than if you test a while later (after showering etc) but still before eating. This is because the sugar continues to rise as you start to get active. When exactly DO you do a fasting BG? </p><p>A few things I have found - If I go to bed with a raised BG, I wake up with one. So I make sure that my evening meal is early enough to let my BG recover before bed. I then eat nothing within 2 hours of bedtime. Not even a last snack before bed. Even a glass of milk then will leave me higher the next morning. Some people on insulin and similar meds have a last minute snack to avoid night hypos, but on Metformin only you don't need to worry about that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grazer, post: 240219, member: 31362"] Sometimes there's nothing at all you can do. Before we wake, our liver drops sugar into our blood to prepare us for the day. This is known as the "Dawn Phenomenon". If you test the instant you wake, it could be a fair bit lower than if you test a while later (after showering etc) but still before eating. This is because the sugar continues to rise as you start to get active. When exactly DO you do a fasting BG? A few things I have found - If I go to bed with a raised BG, I wake up with one. So I make sure that my evening meal is early enough to let my BG recover before bed. I then eat nothing within 2 hours of bedtime. Not even a last snack before bed. Even a glass of milk then will leave me higher the next morning. Some people on insulin and similar meds have a last minute snack to avoid night hypos, but on Metformin only you don't need to worry about that. [/QUOTE]
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