Blood sugar levels when resting

[Carlos770uk]

Hi all
I have been looking at my sugar levels closely the last couple weeks. When I have resting eg sitting watch tv for few hours and sleeping my sugar levels go up to around 8.4
But when I am at work I test my self 3 times a day once in morning 2 hours after breakfast and 2 hours after lunch and pre dinner sugar levels are around 5.4. When I am home resting and sleeping it goes up.
Any ideas ?

 

[Inka]

Welcome @Carlos770uk 🙂 It could simply be that you’re more active at work and so ‘burning off’ some of the glucose. That’s why people often like to go for a walk after a meal. The exercise can help your blood sugar. Even moderate exercise can help, eg doing some household chores rather than just sitting down.

What was your last HbA1C? Are you on any medication for the diabetes?

 

[pawprint91]

Hi @Carlos770uk. My suggestion would be that when you are resting, your body is not using glucose like it would be when you are at work. I can’t see if you’re type 1 or type 2, but I have different insulin needs depending on whether it’s a weekday or weekend.

 

[Carlos770uk]

Welcome @Carlos770uk 🙂 It could simply be that you’re more active at work and so ‘burning off’ some of the glucose. That’s why people often like to go for a walk after a meal. The exercise can help your blood sugar. Even moderate exercise can help, eg doing some household chores rather than just sitting down.

What was your last HbA1C? Are you on any medication for the diabetes?

Thank you replying my HbA1C was 43 one month ago and not on any medication change my diet and do long walks at the weekend

 

[Carlos770uk]

Hi @Carlos770uk. My suggestion would be that when you are resting, your body is not using glucose like it would be when you are at work. I can’t see if you’re type 1 or type 2, but I have different insulin needs depending on whether it’s a weekday or weekend.

Hi there I am type 2 and do not take any medication

 

[pawprint91]

Hi there I am type 2 and do not take any medication

Even with us being different types, I would say the same - the less active you are (generally) the less glucose your body is using, hence those higher levels after sitting or sleeping and lower when you have been working. (Even if your job is not active, you will still be using glucose as your brain is working!)

 

[Inka]

Thank you replying my HbA1C was 43 one month ago and not on any medication change my diet and do long walks at the weekend

That sounds very good 🙂 Obviously you can’t exercise when you’re sleeping, but you could try some activity before sitting down in the evening: a short, brisk walk, some tidyingwith plenty of walking up and down stairs, etc.

 

[Carlos770uk]

Even with us being different types, I would say the same - the less active you are (generally) the less glucose your body is using, hence those higher levels after sitting or sleeping and lower when you have been working. (Even if your job is not active, you will still be using glucose as your brain is working!)

Yeah active I work warehouse standing up during the day. Thank you for advice

 

[Carlos770uk]

That sounds very good 🙂 Obviously you can’t exercise when you’re sleeping, but you could try some activity before sitting down in the evening: a short, brisk walk, some tidyingwith plenty of walking up and down stairs, etc.

Yeah sound good idea thank you I will try that and see how that goes

 

[Dragonheart]

Hi all
I have been looking at my sugar levels closely the last couple weeks. When I have resting eg sitting watch tv for few hours and sleeping my sugar levels go up to around 8.4
But when I am at work I test my self 3 times a day once in morning 2 hours after breakfast and 2 hours after lunch and pre dinner sugar levels are around 5.4. When I am home resting and sleeping it goes up.
Any ideas ?

What are you eating and drinking during dinner and the rest of the evening? Maybe it raises you higher than other meals do, compounded by the fact you are active after those meals but not this one.

As well as before try testing 2 hrs after dinner and see if there is a significant difference in the two to see the rise it causes.

If the other meals are mid 5’s 2 hrs later they are obviously well suited to you and not causing a spike/rise but this seems different.

 

[Carlos770uk]

Dinner I normal eat meat and veg meals with little carbs every other day and fruits in the evening drink wise only drink water since I was diagnosed with diabetes. Yeah after dinner I am more just sit relax in evening so I need to be little more active

 

[harbottle]

Sounds like Dawn Phenomenon if it's happening when you're asleep.
If it's going up when you're not active, could be as other have said: the activity is keeping levels down as when we exercise glucose is used for energy via a different pathway that does not require insulin and also makes muscles more sensitive to insulin as well. I've seen a brisk walk for 30 minutes bring my own levels down into the 3s.

I like to check my own fasting levels every now and then, as it indicates how my metabolism is handling the background glucose generate by the liver & the morning burst of glucose.