I have seen a couple of post about the morning blood glucose. I just wanted to know why it was importante that we do a check first this; before coffee, before a shower, before one actually gets dressed!!?? Just dont understand why!
Best time to test morning blood sugars is when you first wake up. Coffee can raise blood sugars, any activity can trigger a liver's glucose dump in the morning, so yeah... Best would be before getting up, as the moment there's "feet-on-the-ground", your liver often starts helping you to get your day going, by adding in some energy through glucose... Which you might not actually want it to do, but it's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so to speak.
Why is it important? Depends. Is it? If you're starting out you might want to check every now and again, rather than every morning. Fasting blood sugars are the last to come down, so after a while it can tell you whether your over all blood glucose is doing alright. If you're always high, your liver thinks that that is normal and where you should be, so it gives off more glucose than you might want it to. If that eases off some, your stores might be getting depleted, which is exactly what you want. But again, that can take a while and every day testing'd be a bit useless, unless you're checking for other reasons as well.
So, why I'm doing it? I'm 8 years into diabetes and I was just re-diagnosed with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. It was gone for a few years, but it's come back, which I found to be rather devastating to hear. The glucose stored in the liver? They're in the fat deposits. And I want them gone, because I'm in pain, not sleeping, absolutely knackered and generally, not healthy because of it all, so I'm looking at what my liver is doing in the morning, mainly by checking my blood sugars. I can't do a liver function test ever morning without a lab in my home, but I can certainly see what it's shedding by checking what's going on with my blood sugars. Not so much to do with wanting to know what my bs are doing, but how my liver is holding up.
But that's just my reason to do it for a little while. Others might just want to keep an eye on things, and hey, it's also an early detection method for a flu or reaction to a bad night or... It can give you information, if you know what to look for. But the most telling for diabetes, to me, is still the testing around the meals. For my liver and whether what I'm doing now, diet wise, is helping it, the fasting test is useful.
So it is by no means mandatory, just... If it's something you want to know, and test properly, test before you get into activities or food/drink. Not like I did today, half an hour after breakfast.
