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Morning Effect?

Inchindown

Inchindown

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After a pretty good day for me yesterday, my bedtime BG was 6.7.

When I did a fasting check this morning, it had risen to 9.6.

Is this overnight rise down to the morning effect, or is there something else going on here.?
 
There can be more to it , it can be the dawn phenomenon but basicly it can also depend on how much carb you did eat Yesterday and how much protein , if you eat too much protein like more than you need proteins can by the liver be transformed into glucose raising ones blood glucose over a much slower but steady rate than carbs do .
 
Freema said:
There can be more to it , it can be the dawn phenomenon but basicly it can also depend on how much carb you did eat Yesterday and how much protein , if you eat too much protein like more than you need proteins can by the liver be transformed into glucose raising ones blood glucose over a much slower but steady rate than carbs do .
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I had 120 g of carbs and a total of 1710 calories worth of food.

My pre dinner reading was 6.6 and 2 hours after dinner it was 7.8. An hour later it had fallen to 7.2. It then fell to 6.7 at bedtime.

I don't have a figure for total protein.

Since I have been testing, I've noticed my morning fasting level tends to be higher than the last reading from the night before.
 
Have a read up on Dawn Phenomenon (google will give you plenty to get an idea of it)

But it is worth remembering that we are all different. As Freema says, your fasting readings can be affected by what you ate the day before. However, they can also be affected by what you drank (alcohol) or what you have been eating for days before (think Xmas), or stress levels, or exercise levels, or sleep deprivation, or stress... the list is pretty endless really.

Morning fasting levels are often the slowest readings to respond to introducing a lower carb diet. Sometimes they can take months to subside.

Dawn Phenomenon is largely caused by hormones, and that includes stress hormones. So the more stressed you are, the more the effect will be.

For example, my fasting readings always shoot up if I have a job interview that day, or I know I have a busy/tight schedule, or if my sleep was disturbed. There was one memorable occasion when I was woken by hysterical screeching, looked out the window and saw foxes (parent and pup) going for a cat. Dashed outside waving the mop. Drove them off. And the next morning my fasting blood glucose was about twice what it should have been! lol.
 
Brunneria said:
Have a read up on Dawn Phenomenon (google will give you plenty to get an idea of it)

But it is worth remembering that we are all different. As Freema says, your fasting readings can be affected by what you ate the day before. However, they can also be affected by what you drank (alcohol) or what you have been eating for days before (think Xmas), or stress levels, or exercise levels, or sleep deprivation, or stress... the list is pretty endless really.

Morning fasting levels are often the slowest readings to respond to introducing a lower carb diet. Sometimes they can take months to subside.

Dawn Phenomenon is largely caused by hormones, and that includes stress hormones. So the more stressed you are, the more the effect will be.

For example, my fasting readings always shoot up if I have a job interview that day, or I know I have a busy/tight schedule, or if my sleep was disturbed. There was one memorable occasion when I was woken by hysterical screeching, looked out the window and saw foxes (parent and pup) going for a cat. Dashed outside waving the mop. Drove them off. And the next morning my fasting blood glucose was about twice what it should have been! lol.
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Thanks for the information.

I had a bad night's sleep last night. My sleep was intermittent and was tossing and turning a lot.

Maybe something I ate yesterday disturbed my sleep.
 
I just did another test and my BG has fallen to 6.6.

I had a breakfast soon after I got up of scrambled eggs with a little grated cheese thrown in.

So if eating breakfast seems to bring my BG down again, does this mean I can ignore the dawn phenomenon. Or is there some serious consequences to these temporary overnight spikes in BG.
 
I changed the time of my second metformin tablet from 6pm until 9pm and have had a better fasting test this morning.

Following a bedtime reading of 6.5 last night, my fasting test this morning was down to 7.2 from 9.6 the day before.

Hope this is the start of a trend.
 
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