Glucose reading

[Ashley]

Can someone help me?
I woke at 6am this morning for the loo and tested my blood it was 7.1 I dozed back off and woke again at 9.20am and blood had rose to 14.4, I had nothing to eat or drink when up at 6am. How can it jump up so high?

 

[Kaylz]

Hi there 🙂

It could be dawn phenomenon, sorry I don't have any links to it but there's quite a lot of info on it both on the forum I believe and on the internet

How do you manage your Type 1? Pump or MDI? it might be worth conducting a basal test if you haven't recently to see if that's as close to perfect as can be

It could also be if your not doing the same as you usually do with the current situation, stress etc xx

 

[Ashley]

Thank you for the reply. I Have been reading up.
I use MDI.
I am just looking for as much knowledge and information I can get.
thank you

 

[bridge]

Can someone help me?
I woke at 6am this morning for the loo and tested my blood it was 7.1 I dozed back off and woke again at 9.20am and blood had rose to 14.4, I had nothing to eat or drink when up at 6am. How can it jump up so high?

hi This is quite common for me too Ashley. My glucose can rise like this without any food during the morning and it is to do with hormones as previously mentioned.Stress can affect me too.

 

[Ashley]

hi This is quite common for me too Ashley. My glucose can rise like this without any food during the morning and it is to do with hormones as previously mentioned.Stress can affect me too.

I am constantly stressed so maybe makes sense why I randomly jump from normal reading to mid high! Thank you for the reply and info.

 

[bridge]

I am constantly stressed so maybe makes sense why I randomly jump from normal reading to mid high! Thank you for the reply and info.

I am constantly stressed so maybe makes sense why I randomly jump from normal reading to mid high! Thank you for the reply and info.

 

[bridge]

Me too! Especially at the moment but try not to worry - there is help if we need it!

 

[trophywench]

Andy - be warned re stress because when we're high it's second nature to take a correction dose, however if our liver is still functioning properly, it will in its own sweet time do what it's supposed to and throw some glycagon into the mix and because the insulin is reliable in its timing it could easily be too late so we go hypo instead of too high and then high again later like a ruddy see saw. When I was doing this some years ago my DSN suggested that I only ever took 50% of the correction dose I'd 'normally' need for stress highs.

It works! The average BG might be a bit higher than we might consider ideal BUT it evens out the huge spikes and deep troughs quite a bit which is helpful.

 

[Inka]

Can someone help me?
I woke at 6am this morning for the loo and tested my blood it was 7.1 I dozed back off and woke again at 9.20am and blood had rose to 14.4, I had nothing to eat or drink when up at 6am. How can it jump up so high?

I get a jump in my blood sugar if I don’t eat first thing. Even if I exercise, my blood sugar will still rise if I haven’t eaten and had some insulin. If I’m going to delay my breakfast, I have a tiny amount of insulin to keep my blood sugar down. I also find early starts are dreadful for putting my blood sugar up a lot more than normal.

But if this isn’t normal for you, then it could be stress, illness, hormones, or any of the many things that like to mess with our sugars!

Interesting what you said about stress @trophywench I hadn’t heard that.