dawn phenomenon

  1. M

    New here with a question about dawn effect

    Hi, I am T2 and was very close to going onto insulin but I got myself a continuous blood sugar monitor and now I don’t eat any carbs until it reads below about 8 mmol and then have been experimenting to make sure I stay under 10 mmol If I aim for a lower level I find it dives down very quickly...
  2. Amity Island

    symogi effect / hypoglycemic rebound

    Good evening to you all, I was reading an article on line which I came across recently and I was hoping..... does anyone have any views, opinions or experience on the symogi effect / hypoglycemic rebound? Is this something people are unknowingly experiencing, e.g finding it very difficult to...
  3. K

    Very high morning blood sugar

    Hello everyone This is my first time posting on here so apologies if I get anything wrong.. I'm type 1 diabetic and every morning for about 2 years my blood sugar is above 20. I've tried splitting my levemir dose, increasing and decreasing, have been put on metformin.. everything! My diabetic...
  4. T

    So far so good, but worrying it might not last.

    Sorry I know this one has been covered many times but I know people have had varying degrees of success with this. I was diagnosed with Type 2 in October, was briefly "definitely" type 1 due to my weight 13 stone'ish and age 33, but that turned out to be a nurse who didn't know enough about...
  5. Jock Coats

    Dawn phenomon - first thing to go?

    I kind of hesitate to put this in the "weight loss" board because to me the Newcastle/8-wee blood sugar diet is not about *absolute* weight loss as it is about specifically getting rid of fat in the liver and pancreas to stimulate insulin tolerance and production, but I've been doing it was...
  6. G

    Hello from trying-to-avoid-meds diet-only 55-yr-old type 2

    Hello, I was diagnosed six years ago, quite by accident as I was having other blood tests, requested a cholesterol test and the nurse said "let's do a blood sugar test as well". The result came back with a fasting sugar level of 8.1 and another later at 7.8. I was put on an exercise and...
  7. H

    Dawn phenomenon

    Hi All Hope everyone is well. I have been using freestyle Libre for last couple of months and have been blown away by the amount of information I now have at my fingertips. I'm very lucky in that all of sensors so far have been very accurate. :-) From this extra data, I notice that some...
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