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Morning Highs - Help Please!!

Lenny3

Lenny3

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Recently my morning sugars are rather high and don't come down till near lunchtime. For example this morning fasting BS is 9.8 then for breakfast I have 2 scrambled eggs with a little cheese and a drop of lactofree milk cooked in a bit of butter. 2 hours later, and my BS is 12.0. I had a similar reading yesterday of 12.8 2 hours after eating a couple of slices of turkey meat and a piece of cheese. By lunchtime after a snack of cheese this was down to 7.3, after lunch of homemade soup and nibbles it was 7.7 then before tea it was 5.8. So it seems mornings are my problem.

Can anyone give me any ideas how to bring these down. Am I eating the wrong thing for breakfast or not enough. My last Hba1c was 6.3 I have a feeling this next one will be back in the 7% range. Also my weight loss has stalled. I put it down to a few ( and I mean just a few) extra carbs over christmas and new year. But I don't seem to be able to get my sugars down again.

Im only taking 1 SR Metformin in the morning, maybe this should be higher than the 750mg? Should I ask for more meds? my 6.3 last time was on 1 SR metformin morning and night at 750mg. It just all seems to have gone wrong since christmas and I didnt even indulge that much. Just a couple of choccies on 1 day and maybe a couple of roast potatoes a couple of days.
 
Having only just, the other day, seen the Dietician (my husband is diabetic and I went along!), I can make a few suggestions based on what she said. (I may be wrong, someone with far more knowledge will come along!)
Firstly, you have scrambled egg and add cheese to it - dietician seemed to think that too much - could you not add cheese, perhaps?
Then you had turkey meat and cheese....lol, you have my sympathy as I love cheese!
Just suggestions....!!
ps could you try Weetabix for brekkie?
 
Hi, thanks for that, but I probably should have said, Im following a low carb diet. Weetabix is not allowed in my house, 1 Brick is probably more carbs than I have in a day. Fat is good for you. Im wondering if Im not having enough to start my day.

By following low carb I have lost 3 stone in 6 months. Have a read of the low carb section of the forum. It changed my life and bought my BS readings way down.




Edited spelling mistakes, I cant seem to spell today!
 
I have the same problem with high morning levels and nothing that I have tried (and I have tried all known to man beast and woman) have had any effect I have stopped testing in a morning but I try to keep up my lowish carb regime going and if I have good levels after lunch I have to be satisfied with that. By the way you are right about the Weetabix it seems as though the dietician mentioned is of the low fat low sugar persuasion
CAROL
 
Hi. My advice would be to ignore early morning readings as they will be affected by the over night liver dump when the body releases glucose to fight the day. GPs seem to be over-concerned about fasting tests without considering the overnight effects? I would just test 2 hours after a meal and see what foods affect you. You can test more frequently during the day or rely on the HBa1c to give you more of an average sugar level.
 
I would be tempted to take the medication in the evening for a week or so, rather than the morning, to see if this makes a difference if I were you? I am not a medical practitioner by the way, but it may be worth a try?

The Duchess
 
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