Hi all
Can anyone offer advice please, I was diagnosed a week before Christmas with type 2 and a HaC1 was 91. Since then I have lost a stone in weight and have got my blood glucose testing between 6 and 8 in the day evening when I started I was always above 12.
My question is when I test in the morning I am always high so for example I was 7.2 last night but have gone up to 11 this morning does anyone have any advice or will this decrease over time?
In normal healthy people the liver will dump glucose in the blood stream from its own stores whenever it detects glucose is low or a little extra is needed. The pancreas then leaps into action and secretes some insulin to balance this out and keep glucose levels stable, at the same time telling the liver to stop dumping. This is all regulated by certain hormones. It saves our lives, because otherwise in times of fasting and between meals (and exercise in some cases) our glucose levels would be insufficient to feed our brains and red blood cells, and we would die.
This system breaks down when we are diabetic and have insulin resistance. The liver dumps its stored glucose but due to insulin resistance the insulin can't do its job properly, the liver keeps dumping and the glucose stays in the blood stream until enough insulin has been produced to clear it, which can take ages.
The system also breaks down if our pancreas is a bit worn out and doesn't produce enough insulin.
Basically, for those with insulin resistance the only real way to prevent it happening at significant levels is to reduce the amount of IR. If you discover that the liver continues to dump throughout the morning with little sign of the pancreas helping out, some people find it is a good idea to eat something very fatty as soon as they get up - plenty of fat, no carbs, such as a coffee with double cream or a couple of boiled eggs, and definitely no carbohydrate at breakfast.