RE: AM rise

[Guest guest]

,

Thanks for the explanation of the " Dawn effect. " I'm surprised, but shouldn't

be, that her docs can't figure that out and counter the effects.

It's gonna be tough trying to get her to change anything and then to add even

more meds to her already huge list of stuff she has to take daily. But somehow I

have to get her to understand what's happening to help her.

Thanks again!

Bill

[Guest guest]

,

Thanks for the explanation of the " Dawn effect. " I'm surprised, but shouldn't

be, that her docs can't figure that out and counter the effects.

It's gonna be tough trying to get her to change anything and then to add even

more meds to her already huge list of stuff she has to take daily. But somehow I

have to get her to understand what's happening to help her.

Thanks again!

Bill

[Guest guest]

That may or may n ot work, Cy. It depends on how hard headed she is!

My son is 37 and my daughter is 35, so you must be a lot older than me! (Or

you started earlier!)

Re: AM rise

What is this " Dawn " effect anyway? My mother, a type 2 diabetic, is

having a hard time controlling her sugars. I wish she would heed my

advice rather than some of the stupid conflicting advice she is getting

from her " old school " doctor and her dietician, both of whom tell her

different things. That notwithstanding, her big problem is high sugars

in the morning. She goes to bed early and sleeps generally 10 hours

with low quality of sleep due to other complications, and gets a morning

sugar of about 170. Yet during the day with her meds, she gets down to

61 or even lower and then takes FOUR glucose tablets (her doc told her

to take 4, I told her to try 1/2 at a time), so bottom line her sugars

go all over the place. And I'm sure she doesn't follow strict dieting

either, she likes white bread and who knows what else she eats that she

shouldn't? It is hard to help her if she won't follow the thing sI'm

learning and trying to tell her to do, yet I am concerned about those

high fasting sugars. It doesn't matter if she snacks before bedtime or

not, doesn't matter if she drinks water before bedtime, nothing seems to

budge the fact that she has high sugars in the morning.

So now what causes this " dawn effect " and are there any suggestions for

dealing with this, in an elderly individual with failing health and

multiple health issues?

Whew! Am I asking a lot.

Bill Powers

[Guest guest]

That may or may n ot work, Cy. It depends on how hard headed she is!

My son is 37 and my daughter is 35, so you must be a lot older than me! (Or

you started earlier!)

Re: AM rise

What is this " Dawn " effect anyway? My mother, a type 2 diabetic, is

having a hard time controlling her sugars. I wish she would heed my

advice rather than some of the stupid conflicting advice she is getting

from her " old school " doctor and her dietician, both of whom tell her

different things. That notwithstanding, her big problem is high sugars

in the morning. She goes to bed early and sleeps generally 10 hours

with low quality of sleep due to other complications, and gets a morning

sugar of about 170. Yet during the day with her meds, she gets down to

61 or even lower and then takes FOUR glucose tablets (her doc told her

to take 4, I told her to try 1/2 at a time), so bottom line her sugars

go all over the place. And I'm sure she doesn't follow strict dieting

either, she likes white bread and who knows what else she eats that she

shouldn't? It is hard to help her if she won't follow the thing sI'm

learning and trying to tell her to do, yet I am concerned about those

high fasting sugars. It doesn't matter if she snacks before bedtime or

not, doesn't matter if she drinks water before bedtime, nothing seems to

budge the fact that she has high sugars in the morning.

So now what causes this " dawn effect " and are there any suggestions for

dealing with this, in an elderly individual with failing health and

multiple health issues?

Whew! Am I asking a lot.

Bill Powers