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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kyi" data-source="post: 1084249" data-attributes="member: 211285"><p>Im not very familiar with the Dawn  rises as I have only been monitoring my bloods for 1 week.  From my ill informed point of view I have made 2 observtions.  My  blood sugar drops in the middle of the night (no food after 8pm and testing at 3am and 9am) and rises some point to 9-9.5 before food intake at 9.  Incidentially I also take my metformin slow release at 9am and 7-8pm I take sitagliptin (t2 diabetic). After monitoring my own bloods for 1 week I drew 2 conclusions, during the day I havent been below 7 and only once did my sugars go up to 10. (cut out the yoghurt) but every day I measured my pre food bloods morning rising to 9.4 at the highest. Measuring 2hrs after food and pre food and bedtime readings. Reading the forums I assumed this was normal for obese people (own theory being if we need more calories to move our carcasses around surely our blood sugars would be higher than if we didnt need to lose weight. I am twice the person I need to be) and 2 the rise in blood sugars was the medication running out over the 24hr period. ie time to take more medication I am still early days in learning about morning blood sugar rises so may have it totally wrong.  Are there example of people who have long term weight issues over twice their size and still having lower than 7 (or 9) in the morning blood sugar reading?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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