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[angel30eyes]

Am being very dense here but does your blood sugar rise through the night? I thought it was at it's lowest between 2 and 3am? And how long does the dawn phenomeunum thingy last?

 

[insulinaddict09]

Am being very dense here but does your blood sugar rise through the night? I thought it was at it's lowest between 2 and 3am? And how long does the dawn phenomeunum thingy last?

Yes I get levels that rise at night for seemingly no reason but have put it down to my basal being slightly off .... or maybe something I have eaten earlier hitting my system after my bolus has left the scene lol 😱

 

[angel30eyes]

The reason I ask is cause my mother in law has been told by her diabetic clinic that your sugars always rise in the night so am very bloody confused as mine drop and only ever rise if i've had a rough night of pain

 

[insulinaddict09]

The reason I ask is cause my mother in law has been told by her diabetic clinic that your sugars always rise in the night so am very bloody confused as mine drop and only ever rise if i've had a rough night of pain

Oh right well , sometimes mine drop and i wake up hypo in the early hours ... totally confusing isnt it and then other times they raise .. im lost lol . I think my honeymoon is well and truly over now 😡

 

[katie]

do you take some kind of long acting insulin like lantus? because that would help you levels to drop

 

[angel30eyes]

do you take some kind of long acting insulin like lantus? because that would help you levels to drop

Not for me huni, as i said my mother in law has been told your sugars always rise over night and was just wondering if this was true as i thought you got your lowest levels at 2 to 3am and your bs should be at its lowest in the morning, well according to everything i read anyhow so wondering why she has been told this and if it is because she is type 2, she has been told to lose weight so she can have a gastric band fitted, her bmi was 67!!!!

 

[Caroline]

The diabetic nurse explained why it rises in the night:

Basically your organs still need energy to work even though you are resting and sleeping, so your liver continues to produce glucose to fuel your organs. Depending on how you take your medication or insulin and what you have eaten before going to bed depnds how high or low you will be when you get up in the moring

 

[Proudspirit]

im confussed now.

if i go to bed and bg is 15, when i wake up its lower, highest ive woken to is 9.5

what is the dawn thing?? I had a blood test done last week and was awake at 7 but didnt get the test done until nearly 12.. starving hungry and BG dropped to 6.5. should you have a fasting test within a certain time?

Julie xx

 

[angel30eyes]

I must admit it doesn't matter what I ear or what time I always wake up lower then I go to bed with

 

[Steff]

I must admit it doesn't matter what I ear or what time I always wake up lower then I go to bed with

yup spot on with me for example i took blood last night i was 11.1 just took it and im now 8.7 that pattern has been going on for about 3 weeks now

 

[Northerner]

I have found that, since getting my lantus dose right, that I am perfectly stable through the night now, and wake to about the same levels as I went to bed on. So, in my case, it is a case of getting my insulin levels right, as previously I was getting frequent night hypos. I suppose that maybe in Type 2that are not on insulin the levels can rise because there may be greater insulin resistance through the night, so the insulin being produced is insufficient to 'cover' the glucose produced by the liver.