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Type 1 My Morning Blood Sugars and Some Questions

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LenCabe

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Hi Girls and Gals,

I have only recently been diagnosed as a Diabetic in November 2017. I have had the numerous hypers, no hypos thankfully but I am starting to notice a trend in my morning blood sugar readings and I see no reason for it.

Every morning when I wake up my sugar is either 8.4 or 8.5. This is if I don't eat a bag of sugar the night before.

I take a fast-acting and a basal insulin but I don't understand how it results in that figuire, is it just a coincidence or could my body be regulating it to a certain extent. I still haven't been given a propler picture when I ask as to what kind of diabetes I have but my Diabetic Nurse will always start sentences like "Now with type 1 diabetes....".

I had always had access to glucometers as I have been part of a voluntry ambulance with a few years and and at the first wrong blood sugar reading I atttended my GP. My GP sent me to hospital with blood sugar levels at 29 but when blood tests were performed I still had insulin in my blood (insulin resistence?).

If somone is able to shed some light on this I would be very interested.
 
This sounds like "dawn phenomenon" or "liver dump" and is very common.

In order for us to start the day, our livers dump a load of ghalucose into our blood to give us the energy to get out of bed.
If you don't have diabetes, your pancreas will release enough insulin to convert this glucose to energy.
If you have diabetes, ... it's a pest.

Some people have found ways to manage it by splitting their basal dose. Others find only a pump helps.
 
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