Debbie1965
Newbie
Mine is always around 15 every morning, night before last it was over 33 but I can not get any advice how to lower it can anyone help please x
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Need help. High blood sugars.
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scottish-jim
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Look at reducing your carbohydrate intake - it works for me. I'm around 50g per day.
You'll need to factor that in if you're using insulin.
Daibell
Master
Hi. Can you tell us more about your BMI and medication if any. Diet is the key for all of us and that means keeping the carbs down. Do let us have more info
endocrinegremlin
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Which type are you? Did you take any action for the 33 the night before? If type one and you took fast acting insulin I would look at upping your background insulin. If you take it in one dose I would put it up a couple of units and if you split doses, up the dose you take overnight. However I would advise you make all changes while talking to a professional. Hoping for the best for you.
JaneAtkins
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Hi Debbie
I used to have very high morning blood glucose and I found it impossible to control until I had a pump. Are you Type1 and what insulin regime are you on?
I am Type 1 and the reason I found it hard was that I have a strong 'dawn effect' when my liver releases a lot of glucose in the morning; it starts to rise at 4am and then peaks from 8-10am and then drops down to almost zero after lunch and rises again from 4ish for the evening to about 1/3rd of the peak.
I did not know this when I was on a regime of lantus once a day and novorapid for meals but I found that if I increased the lantus I kept going hypo and if I reduced it went very high in the morning. I changed for a while to levamir and took it twice a day with a higher dose in the morning ( I think it was) and a lower dose at night. This was much better.
I pushed to get an insulin pump and the consultant, on seeing my diary of blood glucose levels, agreed that to have a pump would allow me to vary the amount of background insulin through out the day and so should help with the problem.
It has not been easy ( but what is with balancing all these thing?). To get the right background level takes some time. It involves fasting tests to get the insulin does that results in a flat blood glucose. I was amazed that I could manage to do fasting tests fairly easy, in fact I found it quite liberating to find that I could. Fasting was necessary ( no calories) as Protein and Fat cause blood glucose to rise, esp. in the absence of carbs.
I hope that is helpful, I found a book called 'Think like a Pancreas' very helpful.
I used to have very high morning blood glucose and I found it impossible to control until I had a pump. Are you Type1 and what insulin regime are you on?
I am Type 1 and the reason I found it hard was that I have a strong 'dawn effect' when my liver releases a lot of glucose in the morning; it starts to rise at 4am and then peaks from 8-10am and then drops down to almost zero after lunch and rises again from 4ish for the evening to about 1/3rd of the peak.
I did not know this when I was on a regime of lantus once a day and novorapid for meals but I found that if I increased the lantus I kept going hypo and if I reduced it went very high in the morning. I changed for a while to levamir and took it twice a day with a higher dose in the morning ( I think it was) and a lower dose at night. This was much better.
I pushed to get an insulin pump and the consultant, on seeing my diary of blood glucose levels, agreed that to have a pump would allow me to vary the amount of background insulin through out the day and so should help with the problem.
It has not been easy ( but what is with balancing all these thing?). To get the right background level takes some time. It involves fasting tests to get the insulin does that results in a flat blood glucose. I was amazed that I could manage to do fasting tests fairly easy, in fact I found it quite liberating to find that I could. Fasting was necessary ( no calories) as Protein and Fat cause blood glucose to rise, esp. in the absence of carbs.
I hope that is helpful, I found a book called 'Think like a Pancreas' very helpful.
