My blood sugar level starts to increase religiously every day at 3am, why?

[Sesquipedalianism]

I am really puzzled. The blood glucose level pictured below is the trend.

Every morning between 3 am and 7 am (when I think am sound asleep) my blood glucose level starts to gradually rise. Perhaps I am sleep walking and raiding the refrigerator?

Has anyone else seen this or knows the reason why?

When I wake up the level leaps upward and I know why - my brain tells my liver "hey, he's awake, release some energy to get him going".

 

[RoughcutAU]

Google dawn phenomenon or search it on these forums.

 

[Rokaab]

Has anyone else seen this or knows the reason why?

Dawn phenomenon - its your body getting ready for the day before you wake up - mine does exactly the same (ie starts heading up at about 3am ish), I'm a Type 1 though and ended up with much higher numbers by the time I woke up as my dawn phenomenon is very aggressive.

If you do a search on dawn phenomenon in these forums there are probably lots of threads, some of which may have some good advice how to help combat it - nothing suggested helped me but it may help you (it was how I managed to get a pump as thats the only thing that can deal with it for me)

 

[Sesquipedalianism]

Dawn phenomenon - its your body getting ready for the day before you wake up - mine does exactly the same (ie starts heading up at about 3am ish), I'm a Type 1 though and ended up with much higher numbers by the time I woke up as my dawn phenomenon is very aggressive.

If you do a search on dawn phenomenon in these forums there are probably lots of threads, some of which may have some good advice how to help combat it - nothing suggested helped me but it may help you (it was how I managed to get a pump as thats the only thing that can deal with it for me)

That's very helpful. Thanks.

 

[Omar51]

Dawn phenomenon - its your body getting ready for the day before you wake up - mine does exactly the same (ie starts heading up at about 3am ish), I'm a Type 1 though and ended up with much higher numbers by the time I woke up as my dawn phenomenon is very aggressive.

If you do a search on dawn phenomenon in these forums there are probably lots of threads, some of which may have some good advice how to help combat it - nothing suggested helped me but it may help you (it was how I managed to get a pump as thats the only thing that can deal with it for me)

Very useful info , I am sure the dawn phenomenon affects all diabetics, probably not the same on everyone. Effects on my FBG are not that severe.

 

[ajbod]

The dawn phenomenon affects EVERYBODY, however as diabetics our sugar regulation system is out of whack. Hence it is a problem, dependent on just how ineffective our regulation is.