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By admin, April 30, 2010 11:27 pm

Why are fasting blood glucose levels high in the morning?

It seems as if they ought to be low after not eating all night.

This is called the Dawn Phenomenon, and pay attention to your body. When morning readings are higher than nightime, somethis is amiss somewhere.
Are you taking insulin, if not skip to the next paragraph. If you are then it may be you are taking too little insulin, you are running out at night and then your BG rises. Even if you are on insulin you may be experiencing one of the things in the next paragraph, which affect insulin dependant, medicated, and diet controlled diabetics.
High morning readings are important to pay attention to, and is usually caused by 1 of two things. You are either experiencing morning insulin resistance which is your body reacting to the morning hormones we all release – the things that perpare us for they day. Or you are experiencing a liver dump, which is a reaction to too low (hypoglocemic) BG levels at night, causing you liver to dump all of its glucose, which spikes your reading.
LIVER DUMP can be fixed by a small snack at night (I have this) Do not eat sugary foods. Keep it healthy – a small amount of peanut butter, cheeze wheat toast, or my personal favorite – half a bar of Glucerna Snack Bar. Glucerna is made just for diabetics, unlike alot of other low-carb supplementals.
Also wake up a couple of times a week to be sure you aren’t dropping too low – too low for you would be best defined by your Endocrinologist.
MORNING INSULIN RESISTANCE – You need to discuss this with your doctor, and remember – if it is MIR then your carbohydrate choices for morning could cause high readings through midday or longer.

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