I have Type 2 diabetes and take metformin, exercise and eat right. My morning blood sugar is always high! ????
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July 24th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
speak to an endocrinologist. he/she will help you adjust things to bring your blood sugar to a normal level (ie. type of meds and dosage)
July 24th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
It sounds like your body is over-compensating during the night by releasing large amounts of natural insulin. Try keeping a bottle of juice or sugar water in your room, and have a mouthful or two if you wake up in the middle of the night.
A lot of people have the same problem you are having, and this normally helps to keep their sugar regulated at night. If it doesn’t help, speak to your doctor and find out if there are other options to control it.
July 24th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Previously Written :
I have Type 2 diabetes and take metformin, exercise and eat right. My morning blood sugar is always high! ????
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Your suffering from what is known as
The Dawn Phenomenon
Try a small protein Snack before going to bed
such as an ounce or 2 of cheese
More information
can be found at
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/17561156.php
&
http://www.diabetic-talk.org/dp.htm
July 25th, 2010 at 12:45 am
If you take NPH insulin, try increasing the night time units by just a smidge.
If you are on only metformin and no insulin, then try eating dinner a little earlier or cutting out late night snacks?
Your body secretes sugar around 3 am, it’s a strange phenomenon that Dr’s have not figured out yet. My husband takes NPH at night so it’s easy for him to increase it a couple units if he is having morning highs.
Good Luck! Try talking to the diabetes clinic if you can’t seem to fix it
July 25th, 2010 at 1:07 am
Every body is different and depending on if your primary issue is lack of insulin production or insulin resistance (or both) will dictate your approach. If eating right is close to the ADA recommended diet then cutting carbs may help.
In my case the ADA recommended diet, exercise, and 2000 mg Metformin resulted in morning blood sugar readings in the 140 – 170 range. Adding a small snack right before bed and decreasing my daily carbs to <100 helped lower the range to 120 – 150. After adding Amaryl and experiencing hypos in the 40 – 55 range my doctor put me on Byetta with the Metformin. Now my FBG is consistantly 104 – 118; still not where I’d like but much better.
July 25th, 2010 at 1:49 am
I’d be interested to know what your reading is before dinner? I’m usually between 5.5-9 in the morning and during the day I burn it off and am around 4-5 before dinner. I take 500mg metformin with my evening meal only. My diabetes specialist nurse called it ‘leaky liver’.
Have you had an HbA1c done at all? Would give an idea of whether you need your dose adjusting or not.
good thing with metformin is it can’t cause hypo’s.
July 25th, 2010 at 2:44 am
I also have higher readings in the morning, they even go higher at the weekends as I get up 2 hours later then. I have been told its just the normal body function of getting ready for the day ahead.
Nice to see UK units being used in the last post, can someone please cut and paste a table showing both.
Ed
July 25th, 2010 at 3:37 am
You need to talk to your doctor. Some say you need a snack at night…..but maybe it’s caused by what you ate at night. Especially if it had carbs. I had the problem too. Don’t listen to people…..go to the doctor that is treating you and ASK
July 25th, 2010 at 4:19 am
I had this too, for a long time, and found out I was eating my evening meal< around 8:30PM > too late. Eat eailer and it should relieve the problem.