new to this forum but not new to diabetes

[rebrascora]

Your high morning readings are likely due to Dawn Phenomenon. The liver trickles out glucose through the night when there is no food left in your system to keep your vital organs ticking over, so that your heart can beat and your lungs breath and your brain process all sorts of info, but as morning approaches your liver realises that there is no food in the system but you will need more energy to get up and get going, so it starts to throw out more glucose ..... it is believed to be a throwback to prehistoric days when we didn't have cupboards and fridges with food in them and we had to go out and forage or hunt down out first meal of the day.... I think of the liver as the back up battery for our bodies.... it recharges when we eat and provides the energy to keep us ticking over when there is no food in our system.

Try taking your morning reading before you get out of bed and you may get lower results although some people's DP does actually start at dawn which is obviously very early at this time of year. I am lucky that mine doesn't kick in until I get out of bed and get going so I can inject insulin to counteract it... otherwise I am into double figures for most of the morning.

Beware Fever Tree tonic if you go for the G&T option as it is sold as no added sugar or something like that, so pub staff often serve it as a "slim line" substitute but it contains fructose instead which is sugar from fruit and that is carbs, so make sure to ask for a slimline Schwepps or similar and avoid the Fever Tree, which unfortunately for us diabetics seems to be the trendy option for tonic or ginger these days.