SomethingElse
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Thanks @everydayupsanddowns.
My current rule is for my BG to be below 8 after 2 hours, otherwise it’s a smaller portion of that food or I just don’t eat it.
One thing I am noticing though is that my BG levels through the night are high. Last night I had my dinner at 7.30pm (can’t eat earlier due to kids) and the spike was tiny as it was very low carb (cloud pizza, which was actually great) and then I had a couple of gummy sweets and a beer around 9pm. Again, the two hour BG was below 8 from that and before bed at 11pm I was down to 7.
In the night I woke up to make a bottle for our baby, and at 1am it was 7.8. At 5.40 it was 8.4, and now, 7am, it’s 7.2.
I don’t know what happened between 1am and 5am and whether it lowered before going back up (I know about dawn phenomenon), but based on other days I seem to hover around 7.8 through the night even if it’s lower when I go to bed.
I’m only 2 weeks into my diagnosis so I’m still learning, and I need to shift weight. I’m also due to start a second metformin dose at dinner time soon so we’ll see what happens there. But what could be causing this high level all night?
I’m eating around 100g carbs a day at the moment but, as I say, anything I do eat is back within a normal level at the two hour mark. I’ve been quite lucky so far in that I can handle things like half a brown wrap and a bag of quavers and still come back down to the 6’s.
My current rule is for my BG to be below 8 after 2 hours, otherwise it’s a smaller portion of that food or I just don’t eat it.
One thing I am noticing though is that my BG levels through the night are high. Last night I had my dinner at 7.30pm (can’t eat earlier due to kids) and the spike was tiny as it was very low carb (cloud pizza, which was actually great) and then I had a couple of gummy sweets and a beer around 9pm. Again, the two hour BG was below 8 from that and before bed at 11pm I was down to 7.
In the night I woke up to make a bottle for our baby, and at 1am it was 7.8. At 5.40 it was 8.4, and now, 7am, it’s 7.2.
I don’t know what happened between 1am and 5am and whether it lowered before going back up (I know about dawn phenomenon), but based on other days I seem to hover around 7.8 through the night even if it’s lower when I go to bed.
I’m only 2 weeks into my diagnosis so I’m still learning, and I need to shift weight. I’m also due to start a second metformin dose at dinner time soon so we’ll see what happens there. But what could be causing this high level all night?
I’m eating around 100g carbs a day at the moment but, as I say, anything I do eat is back within a normal level at the two hour mark. I’ve been quite lucky so far in that I can handle things like half a brown wrap and a bag of quavers and still come back down to the 6’s.
