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Hello everyone.

How come if I eat nothing after 7pm and go for a two mile walk my waking reading is 7.4

Yet if i eat a packet of rolo, a bag of hula hoops, a bar of snickers and eat a bowl of special k [by way of experiment :oops: ] at 9pm and lie on my **** watching tv my waking reading is 4.4
 
Dunno. Weird, innit?

Same thing happened to me last weekend. I had a carb rich meal at 6pm (spagetti with (veggi)meat balls (missus was cooking!) and chilli sauce), thena bwol of cereal at 9pm, and another at 11pm.

Waking BG was 4.9!

If only there was a way to differenciate between glucose in the blood from the food we eat, and the glucose in the blood that is put their by our own liver...
 
The dawn phenomenon perhaps?

If I go to bed with a reading lower than 5 mmol/L, I usually wake with a reading in the high 7s. For me it seems to happen after 5 am, if I'm lower than 4.5 at 5am (on the odd occaision that I've tested at that hour) then I will have a small glass of milk, if not I'll be high by 8am.

If I have to have blood tests in the morning, and not eat breakfast, my readings can go up to 8.3.

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EDIT, I should say that my morning readings are normally between 5 and 6.
 
Yep, same problem here, waking BGs in the 6's if I don't eat before going to bed and 5's (mainly) if I do.

I didn't know why that was happening but after being told about the "dawn phenomenon" by a friend I started eating a sandwich before going to bed. The only thing I can't understand is why sometimes my waking BGs are in the 4's even though I eat the same thing every night.
 
Thanks all.

It probably is the dawn phenomenon alright, its just my choice of bedtime snack and very low reading [for me] which was puzzling.

Could something you ate 3 days beforehand affect blood glucose reading or is it generally what you've ate in the past 24 hours that influences your morning reading?

Also does metformin build up in your system to become effective or do the two tablets i take in the morning basically just work for 12 hours until the next dose?
 
for me it seems to be the starving combined with the severe insulin resistance that causes me to experience dawn phenomenon. But if I take my insulin and snack very late then my am reading may be around 5 - 6 mmols. But starving I had a reading yesterday that was 9.2mmol . I read Dr Bernsteins book years ago and found I was experiencing this and I have to be on a near starvation diet before I loose weight due to severe insulin resistance. But I am slowly getting there. :o
 
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