Because effectively the liver dumps carbs. So if I tell Elvis 10g fast carbs are coming, it’ll bolus for those, and my liver delivers them. If I just say to bolus (say) 1.5u it’ll just reduce the basal rate to make up for that. It can react to slow rises and cover those with temp basals, but this seems to be the best way to deal with surges. It’s not a perfect system, so sometimes I need to lie to it.I'm puzzled - why not just tell the pump to bolus a unit or two?
Foot on the floor seems to happen about an hour after I wake up; dawn phenomenon around 3am. YDMV xTa, so what's the difference do you think between dawn phenomenon and liver dump? or am I over analysing?
Sending you hugs!Did another correction as it hadn't gone down. Now seeing a scary drop in my graph and a down arrow
I guess sleeping has to wait some longer while I wait to see what happens.
Possibly I even get to eat crisps
Luckily no boyfriend here,as not needing help with eating crisps. Although the dogs insist I need help with that.Sending you hugs!
That happens to me as well so I end up not sleeping. Some times my bf waits with me in case I need help.
You got the dog's hopes up!Luckily no boyfriend here,as not needing help with eating crisps. Although the dogs insist I need help with that.
BG seems to be levelling out again so I'm afraid there won't be crisps in the dogs' and my near future
Sounds like you have a very loving boyfriend!
I've sometimes wondered about this. As you say, foot on floor is well recognised, so if you've got x grams coming in from breakfast and y grams coming in from the liver, does the morning ratio appear higher because we're not including the y grams in the arithmetic?
I suspect that if we had a way of measuring the y grams, the ratio might not be that far away from later in the day ratios.
I've more or less solved the issue by being bone idle and not getting up till about 2pm...
SueJB, the dawn phenomenon, also called the dawn effect, is the term used to describe an abnormal early-morning increase in blood sugar (glucose) — usually between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. — in people with diabetes. It doesn't occur in normal people or in people managing their insulin. I certainly don't experience it now that I've started using insulin.
The liver dump is something that can be controlled by eating breakfast as Scott-C suggests, but it's not something I'm experiencing. I thought it more a type 2 problem or someone with insulin resistance, which I don't have. It's something Dr Jason Fung writes about.
Dr Berinstein writes about gluconeogenesis, which is where your muscle and vital organs are broken into glucose and thereby raising blood sugars, happening when you don't have enough insulin. I've certainly experienced this before starting insulin.
Well I am on insulin and consider myself managing it for the last 5 years but I still get DP from 3am. Foot on the floor for me is literally foot on the floor rocket! Interestingly I can have DP for a few weeks then have a few days where it doesn’t happen. Lovely straight Libre line from going to bed til 6 in the morning. I get up to the loo and off it goes vroom!
duly noted and written in my official book of provisional attendees !!!Hi, @himtoo , stick me down as a provisional "yes" for the Manchester meet!
Only a few hours on the train from Edinburgh, I trotted down there for a short holiday a year or two ago purely because the Hairy Bikers mentioned Mancunian black pudding Scotch eggs and wanted to try them, couldn't find them anywhere, so some local knowledge second time round may help!
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