No Breakfast Spike This Morning!!

[Neckarski_94]

This is unusual! Can’t get my head round how this Diabetes works! I usually spike in the morning after Breakfast!!

 

[TheSecretCarbAddict]

Look up dawn phenomenon. This is liver dumping glucose to get you ready for the day. Non-diabetics can have this, too, but this does tend to be more pronounced in diabetics. Most of this is non-dietary glucose and retrieved from liver stores or generated through gluconeogenesis process.

 

[Neckarski_94]

Look up dawn phenomenon. This is liver dumping glucose to get you ready for the day. Non-diabetics can have this, too, but this does tend to be more pronounced in diabetics. Most of this is non-dietary glucose and retrieved from liver stores or generated through gluconeogenesis process.

It just baffles me how most days I spike and today I haven’t!

 

[TheSecretCarbAddict]

Sorry.. I misread your statement. You were saying no spike, I read it as spike with no breakfast. I shouldn't multitask - walk a dog, listen to a book, and reply to forum posts.

It is mostly to do with your insulin regiment, meal timing, etc. I find no day is the same for me even though less drastic changes for me as T2.

 

[Fern Hopper]

It's a strange condition! I haven't worked it out after 57 years!

 

[Neckarski_94]

It's a strange condition! I haven't worked it out after 57 years!

That it is! Wow 57 years! I’m only a couple months in!

 

[Fern Hopper]

But I keep really well. HbA1c of 35. BMI of 20.5. No retinopathy. No neuropathy. At 66 I am probably much fitter than the majority of my contemporaries.

 

[Fern Hopper]

And it sounds like you're doing well.

 

[flonvic]

This is unusual! Can’t get my head round how this Diabetes works! I usually spike in the morning after Breakfast!!
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Can i ask what you had for breakfast?

 

[Neckarski_94]

Can i ask what you had for breakfast?

3 Wheat Bisks with some mixed nuts on top

 

[Hopeful34]

Did you do anything different this morning in terms of correction doses of insulin, bolus earlier, was your blood sugar lower than normal before you ate, did you have less milk on your weetabix etc, etc.

 

[Neckarski_94]

Did you do anything different this morning in terms of correction doses of insulin, bolus earlier, was your blood sugar lower than normal before you ate, did you have less milk on your weetabix etc, etc.

No correction doses. Didn’t have bolus earlier. It was about the same I think. Milk same amount. I went for a walk after breakfast don’t know if that would have helped!

 

[Fern Hopper]

Walking definitely helps! Parkrun for me this morning. Annoyingly if I am trying hard this short distance always spikes my BG. However, I quickly recover. Very slow run this morning as I ran with my wife! She does have a pacemaker.
We both sound really old and decrepit.

 

[SimonP78]

If I run low overnight/the previous evening or do significant exercise the previous day I reduce/eliminate my FotF rise.

Exercise immediately after eating will certainly help, even a short walk (dropping my children to the local school) worked wonders vs the current situation of driving them both to not-so-local schools.