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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
There's a similar thread just posted, so sorry for the repeat, but I'm not on meds and not having high carb breakfasts, so I didn't want answers to get confused.
I've had a meter for a week, but been following general low-ish carb diet for about a month (40-80g normally). Testing pre meal/2hrs after, morning fasting. Numbers are higher than I'd like, but I am keeping within the 2mmol/L range for 2-hr after meal testing for lunch/evenings. Mornings, however, readings are weird as they consistently go up between waking and breakfast (and I consistently have a large gap between both). For example, today:
Last reading yesterday around 10pm: 7.1
Immediately on waking, around 7:30am: 7.2 (so up by 0.1)
(Have coffee with cream and a handful of raspberries, shower, walk kids to school, come home, start work)
9:10am: 9.6 (then Spinach, egg, cheese omelette with Parma ham. Seecond cup of coffee with cream)
2hrs later: 6.9 (-2.5 post prandial difference)
Expecting numbers in 5/6 range by lunchtime at 1pm
Is a rise in numbers by 2.5 in two hours due to morning getting ready rush, one coffee with double cream and maybe 5 raspberries a normal thing? Everything stays in 5/6/7 range after lunchtime. Should I move my breakfast time earlier? Just keep experimenting till something works?
There was no difference between last night and this morning practically in readings, so I'm finding it hard to see this as Dawn Phenomenon. Unless my pancreas is just like me and has a more liberal view of "morning" and getting ready than most people! I work from home so would happily sleep until 9am if there weren't children to get ready for school!
I've had a meter for a week, but been following general low-ish carb diet for about a month (40-80g normally). Testing pre meal/2hrs after, morning fasting. Numbers are higher than I'd like, but I am keeping within the 2mmol/L range for 2-hr after meal testing for lunch/evenings. Mornings, however, readings are weird as they consistently go up between waking and breakfast (and I consistently have a large gap between both). For example, today:
Last reading yesterday around 10pm: 7.1
Immediately on waking, around 7:30am: 7.2 (so up by 0.1)
(Have coffee with cream and a handful of raspberries, shower, walk kids to school, come home, start work)
9:10am: 9.6 (then Spinach, egg, cheese omelette with Parma ham. Seecond cup of coffee with cream)
2hrs later: 6.9 (-2.5 post prandial difference)
Expecting numbers in 5/6 range by lunchtime at 1pm
Is a rise in numbers by 2.5 in two hours due to morning getting ready rush, one coffee with double cream and maybe 5 raspberries a normal thing? Everything stays in 5/6/7 range after lunchtime. Should I move my breakfast time earlier? Just keep experimenting till something works?
There was no difference between last night and this morning practically in readings, so I'm finding it hard to see this as Dawn Phenomenon. Unless my pancreas is just like me and has a more liberal view of "morning" and getting ready than most people! I work from home so would happily sleep until 9am if there weren't children to get ready for school!