Guest guest Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 This morning I woke up earlier than usual and was a little hungry, so I went to the kitchen, took a glass of orange juice and quickly followed it with a small piece of pumpkin bread with less than a half- ounce of cream cheese. I crawled back into bed, forgot to take my Glucophage and thought to myself " I'll pay for this with high blood sugars in a couple of hours " . I woke up about an hour and a half later, did some minor housework (which involved a little walking, but not much more than 10 minutes' worth) and took my morning blood glucose test, as usual. I thought it would surely be in the 200's, but I was amazed when I saw it was 130 - actually 20-25 points lower than it usually is when I awake (fasting all night). I have done early-morning fasting numbers before when I have gotten up early and NOT eaten, and even took a few around 3-4:00 am when I first started, and they are around 140-150 (no dip or rise near dawn). Can anyone make any sense of this? Should a make a habit of waking up and having some sugar in the middle of the night? (My levels are NEVER below 90 - morning, noon, or night.) Or was it the walking? Or the cream cheese?! Thanks! Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 A lot of our reactions make no sense. Unfortunately, just when you think you see a pattern, change happens and you have to start again. Do you ordinarily eat something at bedtime? What kind of difference do you see between your bedtime numbers and your fbg? It seems you have checked at 3AM and afterwards and see no change. Have you ever checked earlier and seen a lower reading than the fbg one? Insulin resistance waxes and wanes during the night; the composition of dinner the night before, and the time it is eaten can have an effect on the next day's readings. How well you sleep, a change in the barometric pressure, unusual or different stress, all can make changes in regular patterns. And, obviously having that particular snack, at that particular time of the morning, on that particular day. Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 You could have spiked quickly and dumped a boatload of insulin to cover the sugar. I did a test one day, when I was still trying to figure out what to eat in the AM. I ate regular instant " lower sugar maple brown sugar " oatmeal. Went from 130 to right around 200 within 30 mins. By the end of 2 hours, I was way down low, and needing to eat to fight a possible low. I think others call it the 'rollercoaster effect.' SulaBlue > I woke up about an hour and a half later, did some minor housework > (which involved a little walking, but not much more than 10 minutes' > worth) and took my morning blood glucose test, as usual. I thought > it would surely be in the 200's, but I was amazed when I saw it was > 130 - actually 20-25 points lower than it usually is when I awake > (fasting all night). > > I have done early-morning fasting numbers before when I have gotten > up early and NOT eaten, and even took a few around 3-4:00 am when I > first started, and they are around 140-150 (no dip or rise near dawn). > > Can anyone make any sense of this? Should a make a habit of waking > up and having some sugar in the middle of the night? (My levels are > NEVER below 90 - morning, noon, or night.) > > Or was it the walking? > > Or the cream cheese?! > > Thanks! > > Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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