Morning Levels - HELP!

This could be dawn phenomenon. If so try eating some cheese before bed. It could also be that the baseline insulin part of your pre-mix isn't sufficient to keep you going throughout the night. Are you still honeymooning? If so it could just be a little "blip" or equally it could be a sign that your honeymoon is about to come to an end. You could also try uping your evening dose slightly, but you will have to remember to eat a little more to cover the fast-acting part. I too am on a pre-mix and it can be very tricky to get things just so. Try the cheese first and see if it helps. I'm sure others on here will have other suggestions for you to try.

Caitycakes x

Hello acron, perhaps caitycakes1 is right, you may need to bring up your basal insulin. Why don´t you try to bring it up one unit? it´s a question of trying. Do you eat quite an amount of carbs at night? I have noticed that on weekends if I´m naughty and eat pizza at night I might be fine 2 hours after having eaten it but I get up in the morning really high; if I stick to my salad or cooked veggies I´m fine.

Hi acron
Dawn Phenomenon is VERY difficult to deal with. I think it's a matter of reading everything you can, trying it and finding out for yourself if something will work for you.

Hi, I too suffer from the dawn phenomenon. I'm also on two injections a day. My bg is usually 7 or 8 in the morning. This has always been the case ever since I was diagnosed nearly two years ago. I'm now on a low carb diet and doing well on it, so my morning reading is usually the highest it gets so I'm not too worried about it because it is only at this level for maybe 2 or 3 hours. It is interesting to test your blood in the night to see at what time your bg rises. Mine seems to rise around 6 or 7am but I'm going to test this again to check properly.

Eating a supper/not eating a supper has no effect for me, neither does the amount of insulin I inject. I can be 4.5 at night, eat no supper and then be 8.5 in the morning. It just doesn't seem to make sense.

I too was thinking of changing to more injections so I would have more flexibility and control etc.. but I've found that low-carb actually works for premix in that I now don't have hypo's anymore and can delay meals and I also don't have to snack between meals. My blood sugar is alot steadier and more predictable. I reckon I could still get my control better on a different insulin regime but I hate injecting so I'm staying as I am for the time being.

As others have said, it might be a case of just experimenting to see if anything helps but don't be surprised if it doesn't. You've spurred me on anyway to try and solve my own dawn p. Carol x