irregular blood readings

It called the Dawn Phenomenon when your liver decides you don't have enough insulin to start the day and dumps a load of insulin into your blood stream,

my readings in the morning are often higher then the previous night, sometimes as much as 10

It is usually TDP unless your numbers really are off the scale to start with, I have found I can go to bed at 4.5 and the next morning before breckfast be as high as 7 so I put it down to TDP as 2hrs later after breakfast I'm back down to 4.5.

For curiosity I checked mine through the night last night so see what happened:
21:20 last night = 15.4 - shouldn't of had a couple of jelly babies
22:15 last night = 12.5
23:55 last night = 9.3
2:35 this morning = 7.0
7:15 this morning = 8.2
9:20 this morning = 9.2
Nothing to eat or drink after the jelly babies until 10:00 this morning!

Notice your on insulin, if your using a basal insulin you might want to discuss upping the dose with your diabetes nurse, this may deal with your morning high's.

gemcojohn said:

Many thanks for your prompt replies. According to my doctor it is because I am not managing my diet correctly !!

Click to expand...

Unfortunately, that often seems to be "Doc Speak" for "I dunno why, but can't be ***** to find out for you "

Welcome, @gemcojohn , you will find some practical, experiental replies to the strangeness that is diabetes on this forum

Signy

I hope with luck to shed some light on this gemcojohn. If you are type 1 like me, I would imagine the issue of high blood sugar in the morning is down to one of three things:

1. Eating a small quantity of longer acting carbs prior to bedtime and not injecting ( I've done this to protect against night time hypos). It can result in higher blood glucose if you overdo it!

2. Short acting bolus injection ie humalog has a shorter action than the carbs you have eaten.

3. If you take a longer acting basal insulin this dosage may need upping or perhaps like lantus in my case it only lasts about 20 hours.

I hope this gives you some ideas and if you need anything clarified then I'll do the best I can.

Best wishes