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Ray52

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
Hi,

I am new here and would love to have some help in what is going with my diabetes.

I have been fasting for 22hrs and my eating window is 2 hours since Dec 2023 and I have been very successful to a point that I managed to drop my HbA1c to 47(6.5%) from 109 (12.1%).
Lately I am facing a high numbers in the day, I am not sure what is causing this issue.
For example, I had a some running in the treadmill for about 18 minutes and then some muscle building exercises for about an hour last night, then had some pan fried chicken. This morning my glucose was 6.6 ( CGM) at 9 am, and I was still sleeping and then it was a late morning for me which by 11 am I was 8.7 ( CGM) , then by by almost 2pm my reading was 10.4 ( CGM), for reference I haven't eating nothing apart from a decaf coffee and some water.

I am not sure what makes my reading goes up like this.
Any insights would be very helpful.
 
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Ray52 said:
Hi,

I am new here and would love to have some help in what is going with my diabetes.

I have been fasting for 22hrs and my eating window is 2 hours since Dec 2023 and I have been very successful to a point that I managed to drop my HbA1c to 47(6.5%) from 109 (12.1%).
Lately I am facing a high numbers in the day, I am not sure what is causing this issue.
For example, I had a some running in the treadmill for about 18 minutes and then some muscle building exercises for about an hour last night, then had some pan fried chicken. This morning my glucose was 6.6 ( CGM) at 9 am, and I was still sleeping and then it was a late morning for me which by 11 am I was 8.7 ( CGM) , then by by almost 2pm my reading was 10.4 ( CGM), for reference I haven't eating nothing apart from a decaf coffee and some water.

I am not sure what makes my reading goes up like this.
Any insights would be very helpful.
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Greetings @Ray52. Welcome to the forum. We're pleased you could join us.

Edited by moderator to make sense now the thread has been moved.
 
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Hi @Ray52 and welcome to the forum.
There are many things that affect blood sugar levels. Maybe it’s worth considering if you are coming down with an infection? Have you changed the intensity of your exercise? Are you not sleeping well?
For me, the higher temperatures we are having currently in the UK is enough to cause my numbers to go up.
Oh and well done on getting your HbA1c down, that’s some drop!
 
I’m going to have a stab at answering your question @Ray52. It sounds like your liver might be dumping its glucose stores. Your insulin secretion will be reduced because you are in a fasted state, but you are also still producing, as we all do, growth hormones and cortisol which will, I believe, encourage your liver to dump. Cortisol raises blood sugar.
 
If your not eating enough then yes your liver will step in to supply you with glucose.
The liver puts glucose into your bloodstream and the insulin takes it out by forcing it into your cells where it's supposed to go only that bit doesn't work to well for us deebies.
 
Ray52 said:
Hi,

I am new here and would love to have some help in what is going with my diabetes.

I have been fasting for 22hrs and my eating window is 2 hours since Dec 2023 and I have been very successful to a point that I managed to drop my HbA1c to 47(6.5%) from 109 (12.1%).
Lately I am facing a high numbers in the day, I am not sure what is causing this issue.
For example, I had a some running in the treadmill for about 18 minutes and then some muscle building exercises for about an hour last night, then had some pan fried chicken. This morning my glucose was 6.6 ( CGM) at 9 am, and I was still sleeping and then it was a late morning for me which by 11 am I was 8.7 ( CGM) , then by by almost 2pm my reading was 10.4 ( CGM), for reference I haven't eating nothing apart from a decaf coffee and some water.

I am not sure what makes my reading goes up like this.
Any insights would be very helpful.
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Hi.

We each have about a day's worth of energy stored in muscles and liver. If you need fuel, that's where it comes from. Food eaten is digested and stored. Livers (and kidneys, a little) can also create glucose as well as access the stores.

If you're seeing high bg readings while not eating, it follows this is probably your stores being used and your liver doing its best to keep your levels high - where it assumes they should be.

I found my liver took months to adjust to a lower bg level being "normal". Left to itself (particularly while I wasn't eating) it would go on inching levels up. I suppose it thought I might need it to catch a mammoth or something.

In the end - it took months - my liver accepted lower levels. Even now though, liver-set levels first thing in the morning are usually the highest of the day for me.
 
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