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Permalink Reply by notsure on June 17, 2011 at 5:12am

Let me add that about an hour later, my blood glucose was 115??

Is this dawn phenomenon??

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Permalink Reply by Jeannie Wagner on June 17, 2011 at 7:02am

Dawn Phenomenom is when your own natural hormones are produced in the morning. This happens to everyone. The difference is diabetics have a weakened pancreatic response. So when these hormones are produced they signal liver to convert stroed glyogen into glucose to wake us up. In a normal non D then they would produce Insulin to counter the glucose. Metformin will help with this. I find I need to take my metformin right before bed and as soon as I wake up in the morning. I also find eating rather low carb helps lower the amount of glycogen you have stored in liver.

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Permalink Reply by brokenpole on June 26, 2011 at 10:59am

notsure, if your medical team is like mine you may get to hear that a lot...not sure. The one thing I had learn when I started in 1995 was that all diabetics are not created equal. I certanly wasn't. I still have periods where, for some unknown reason, my morning fast and bedtime numbers would reverse. It would stay like that for 7 to 10 days and then go back. Drove me crazy. I was seeing a diabetes specialist in Delaware at the time and his answer was; "I just don't know."

Now actually things have changed for me. I was actually having to use a high strength insulin U-500 R just so I could fit my insulin needs in one syringe. That steadied out my control a lot. 18 Months ago a doctor where I live now took me off everything diabetes related and put me on Lantus. 100 units AM and that is all. My HgA1C is now constantly below 6 and I don't have the flip-flops any longer.

With diabetes there are occassions where there is no answer. It is just how your diabetes is.

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