Testing in mornings may have it's on set of factors that will result in high blood sugar levels. Diabetes has an aspect to what is called a leaky liver. I have one myself. For some reason when people go to sleep their system shuts down for the night but for some of us the liver forgets to go to sleep for some reason. The liver keeps producing sugar more than the body needs and results in higher glucose levels in the morning. I have gone to bed with good levels and tend to wake up with high levels.
Hi,
I've been measuring my sugar right before and 2-3 hours after each meal the last few days (I've done this some weekends in the past) and learning some interesting things.
1. We're all a bit different.
2. I was surprised to learn that I can eat a little starch, a little sugar in the form of fruit breakfast, lunch, basically before "dinnertime" and my sugar will go back down to either the 90s or 100s, so long as I haven't eaten too much overall, haven't eaten more than ~30 grams of carbs (15-20 grams is best), have been up and about.
But, if I eat any carb other than non starchy veggies, dinner or later, my Blood glucose takes forever to come down or doesn't. On nights where I've eaten a later dinner, by the time I go to bed, my blood glucose is in the 120s or higher and when I wake up, its pretty much the same thing.
3. I know about the liver dumping (dawn affect). My body doesn't exactly seem to work that way. More like from about 5 or 6 pm until the next morning, my body doesn't know how to clear sugar from my blood stream (no insulin? liver dumping? I don't know but will ask the GP, though he doesn't seem to know more than the basics about diabetes.
4. I thought beans, since they digest slower and I'm fine with them for lunch, were a good carb source for me. But if I eat them (bean soups, etc) at dinner or in the evening, they raise my blood glucose as much as if I'd eaten a big bowl of pasta.
My GP wanted me on a low fat vegan diet for my cholesterol. Wanted me eating beans at every meal, as my main protein source.
Great for cholesterol if one doesn't have diabetes. Terrible for cholesterol if one has diabetes and terrible for diabetes.
Good idea, but not for a diabetic like me.
Wonder what the GP will say when I tell him what I've discovered regarding beans and the "dusk effect" (I made up that term as I see lots on the dawn effect but very little on what I've observed, reading only about it on forums discussing kids with type I diabetes, where their parents note the same thing for their kids that I see for myself.
5. This week, first week of my 2 week Humira cycle, I feel so much better than last week, and yet my Blood glucose has been a lot worse in the morning…..
now I know its not due to flaring, but due to eating bean soup for late dinners due to working late a few times this week.
Today I ate it earlier and will test my sugar to see if I can handle it for an early dinner.
If not, then bean soups will have to be relegated to lunch only and dinners will have to be only meat or fish and veggies, no beans, no starches, no fruit.
Or, I need more metformin ER.
Or, I am still battling the constipation (always except for a few days after Humira) and so even though my joints aren't flaring, obviously my GI tract stilll is…..
