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Hello! I've been a diabetic for over nine years
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Hello, and welcome.
A bit more information would help - such as what the medication is, and if you are testing after meals what sort of numbers would you see then, just to get a clearer idea of how you are being treated and how you respond.
A bit more information would help - such as what the medication is, and if you are testing after meals what sort of numbers would you see then, just to get a clearer idea of how you are being treated and how you respond.
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Welcome to the forum @Finty
I wonder if perhaps you are seeing some influence of Dawn Phenomenon? It‘s part of the body’s natural circadian rhythm - and sometimes forum members describe it as being a throwback to our cave-dwelling forebears who needed a boost in the early hours to go out and snaffle a woolly mammoth for breakfast.
The liver keeps glucose stores, as do muscles, and hormones released around dawn, or as soon as you rise, release a splurge of glucose to ‘fire up the burners’.
Some members find that eating a little low-carb snack last thing can help keep the liver happy overnight, and others find that eating breakfast soon after rising helps to stop the liver dump.
Morning levels can be a bit stubborn for people and tend tobe the last ones to come into range.
Hope you find a workaround that helps you.
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