Liver Dumps

Hi Rowan I'll be interested to read any replies you get to your post as you say everytime you get hungry you get higher readings I also get high readings if I excercise and over night so I'm not clear if I need my tablets metaformin and Gliclazide I see you are also taking them but in a slightly higher dose
Cheers
Jan

Do you know what your BG is when a liver dump is triggered?
It might be interesting to try and map it (maybe test every 15 mins during the period you expect it to happen). - it is 5.1 for me. Infallibly. I can hover at 5.3 for hours, bit if I hit 5.1, my stupid liver goes into panic stations and over-reacts ridiculously. And I am prone to silly dawn phenomenon too.

And does it happen after certain foods/meals? Or at a certain length of time after meals?

Does it happen after a no-carb meal?

my fasting morning result are always high, and have been since i was diagnose last may

My fasting bs was always around 4 but recently it is in the high 5s regardless of what I eat at bedtimes
After excercise it's around 7 to 8 I know it's still fairly good but I always feel a tad disappointed when it goes up and I haven't had the pleasure of eating forbidden foods
It would be interesting to map it every 15 mins or so around the times I know it will be up time to hit ebay for extra test sticks can you imagine the drs face if I asked for extra sticks to experiment with
Jan

Thanks. The reason I asked is because of the possibility of reactive hypoglycaemia. You may have seen some of the threads that have run about it.

The only other (depressing) thing I can contribute is that if your liver is still dumping, then your liver has glycogen to dump. And your body is still using BG to replenish it.

Which kind of means that your diet is probably not ketogenic. I've no idea what quantities of carbs you are eating at the moment.

But one side effect of a ketogenic diet is the depletion of glycogen reserves in liver and large muscles, and that automatically reduces the size of liver dumps - because there is very little glucose to dump.

My personal experience of ketosis is that my liver dumps are much smaller (I still get a DP, but it is definitely smaller), and my hypos are gentle, mild little things barely worth the name.

You may find the Dianne Kress book listed in my sig interesting. She talks about re-training the liver to stop it firing off liver dumps on a hair trigger. Didn't work for me, but then my hormone situation is unusual, and very abnormal, so I knew it was a long shot before I started her regime.