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Morning Test Levels Not Going Down

lucylocket61

lucylocket61

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
I posted this elsewhere, but it mght be better having a thread of its own:

I have lost nearly 2 stones now and am keeping my carbs down to less than 80g a day. My daytime readings are dropping consistently, but my fasting level is remaining between 7 and 7.5 nearly all the time. Am I doing something wrong?
 
Obviously you will know abou the "dawn phenomenon by now Lucy so I won' offend you by mentioning it,

Do you test before bedtime ? I try to keep my levekls low before bed but not where i am likely to stray into hypo territory because his will result in a spike and make the morning reading higher. Some people will eat something before bed lest their sugards drop too much and this causes a liver dump but I find if my levels are 5 ish or just below my fasting levels will be the same
or lower.
if your levels at night are highish do some exercise. to bring them down. I do this in he hope that my levels will stay low for several hours. It mostly works.
 
I have the same problem. My fasting reading and the breakfast+2hrs readings are the highest of the day - usually 6-7. Later in the day, they are nearly always sub-6. I'm hoping that if I continue dieting and losing weight that sooner or later the Dawn Phenomenon will subside and the fasting reading will be the same or lower than the bedtime reading.

ANdrew
 
if you're not already, take the meter up to bed and test first thing you wake,

I did the first thing in the morning thing a couple of times and got <7 so thought that'll do me and stopped taking the morning read, to me the 2+ is the more important

Mary x
 
Even more confused now :oops:

My morning test was 5.7........but I tested my DH (who is not diabetic, just to see what happened) and my DH's test was 6.4!!!
 
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