Rising blood sugars

[Jmaclaren]

Hi I’m type 2 insulin dependent diabetic. I wake up with blood sugars around 5 but within 10 mins they can rise to 9.4 or above. I then find it very difficult to get them down even with correction doses. Does anyone have any helpful hints

 

[JoKalsbeek]

It sounds like Dawn Phenomenon? Your liver helpfully dumps glucose to help you start your day, and it will likely keep doing that until you eat something. Maybe a cube of cheese or something, maybe something you can keep on your bedside table so you cna get it in first thing, be enough to get it to stop.

Diet-controlled t2 though, so.... Careful with anything you might implement, I don't know enough about insulin. (Having had a T3c diabetic, insulin dependent cat does not qualify. )

 

[Jmaclaren]

Thank you. I had heard of dawn phenomena but didn’t realise eating something would stop it