Night time Hypers

Morning and welcome @Foundazy

Brilliant news that you want to get better control, exercise is definately a big help. Can you explain what your basal routine is, so what insulin and when ? It sounds like your background is running out but need a few more details first ?

Hi, I've been a Type 1 for 33 years. There's a book called Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner which talks about glucose increases in the morning that seem unexplainable. It's referred to as the 'dawn phenomenon' and it's linked to the early hours of the day being a time when certain hormones affect the liver and increase its glucose output. Until I read it I thought my levemir injection was running out too quickly but this may partly explain what is happening. I'm using the freestyle Libre to test glucose levels and come the morning it gives a graph of what's been happening overnight. Starting at 6-8 before sleep it (usually) follows a slight rise then a dip then more or less flat until 0600-0630 it starts to rise quite sharply. Increasing the dose by 1-2 units has brought about a bigger dip and lower than I'd want but there is often still a rise early morning. In between that there are some spectacular highs that have kicked in soon after midnight which I can't really explain having reviewed food intake, dosage and glucose levels-but hey we're only human.....! Equally some days the results stay steady all night and no early morning increases.
This might go some way to explaining what results you are getting.

this also has been happening to me if I got up a little later in the morning. I think it was my Levimer running out. I am now on Toujeo and so far going quite well. I can get up an hour later and sugar still ok.
I also now have a Libre (1st week) been type 1 for 50yrs