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Diabesity / Diabetes 1 year ago I’m curious, does anyone know why when I went to bed last night my glucose was 104, but when I woke up this morning it was 130… ? Once I noticed that when I woke up it was 130 and when i checked an hour later it was 142??? why would it go up when i didn’t eat anything??? sincerely…. curious?
Check out this article. It explains why are blood glucose is higher in the morning.
http://forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/ask-experts/why-my-blood-glucose-so-high-morning
You can thank your liver for trying to save you from what it thinks is about to happen and trying to prepare you for waking up. It’s sometimes called the dawn phenomenon. I’ve had it from my diagnosis 6 years ago. Very frustrating and so far I’ve not found anything that helps mine. Many people try eating something just before bed. There is a lot of information online about the dawn effect. The article already referenced is good too. You should eat a bite of something or your breakfast as early after rising as possible because the bg level does seem to continue to rise the longer you go without food. Liver dumps can happen anytime we wait too long to eat. I will say that since I’ve been on this program my fasting bg has been better than ever. Still a bit higher than what I went to bed with but I’m happy with the leveling out that seems to be happening.
You’re right the liver dumps sugar in if you go a long period without eating. One trick is to wake up and eat something of course on this program it would be differen’t than what i was told years ago (eat a couple of crackers) thats what I was told I’m sure something else would work?
Yes, this particular phenomenon is pretty common and trying to eat some little something on rising does help. I’m trying to stick to something that fits my new eating requirements on BSS. The liver dumps happen because the mechanism that signals the liver to release glucose is broken. We’re all different and all of us have varying degrees of insulin resistance and insulin levels and different numbers of healthy beta cells that produce insulin in our pancreas’. So, when the signaling mechanism breaks down the liver gets bad information and then gives us an unwanted shot of glucose. It’s very frustrating but I’ve learned to accept it. I’m delighted that on BSS my fasting bg has somewhat stabilized and is lower than I expected. That makes me happy. Best to you, barb Wk2 Dy3
Hi – I had ”dawn phenomenon” too for 10 years – and after about 5 weeks on the advanced program it leveled-out and disappeared. I’m in week 8 now and am 80-90 every morning.
That sounds so great. I thnk we all just need to hang in there and one morning the tests will all reveal that our efforts are worthwhile. I know that happened with my hypertension, too.