Ask the Expert: How do I control my morning blood sugars?
May 13, 2009
By Jessica Gibbons, Certified Diabetes Educator and Registered Dietitian
Remember that our livers store glucose as glycogen and when we attempt to wake up in the morning, our bodies release some of that glycogen to help get us going. We are ALL more insulin resistant in the morning than any other time of day. Generally, having high blood sugars in the morning has little to do with what you ate last night, unless it was a food really high in fat (ice cream, cheesecake, big hamburger and fries…) If you continue to have high blood sugars on waking, and if you are eating appropriately and exercising regularly, it is time to discuss medication adjustments with your physician.
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 Becky Sparks |
September 13, 2009 4:56 PM Love this article. My blood sugar is usually 113-126 in the morning before I eat. Two hours later it might be 90-105. I guess I am doing something right. Any comments? I'm never quite sure. |
 Lauren |
September 9, 2009 2:29 AM Thank-you! I have been perplexed with this issue for 10 years! I have spoken with my Diabetes Specialist and he/she has never explained this to me...I can only hope that someone reads this LONG before I did and can find some stress relief.... |
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Consola |
September 8, 2009 10:21 PM I was told by a doctor in April, 2009, that I was a type 2 diabetic & I'm having a hard time adjusting to this problem. I'm trying to get a better understanding of the illness, it was a shock to me because I always tried to eat right but I'm realizing that it is more than that & I've been very worried because when I used to check my glucose in the morning it was always very high & it was frustrating to me so I stopped taking it in the mornings, I used to take it every day now I stopped because to me it was a downer, the lowest that it has been is 120 & I was told that it was too high even then, so I very seldom take it now. I know that I have to get it together & educate myself and now reading your answer to the question as to why your gluose is higher in the mornings give me some comfort. |
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da |
July 18, 2009 11:00 PM Whether I am careful or not, in the a.m. my sugar is usually always 140-145 and two hrs after breakfast around 11:30 it goes down to 70-75 so I have to hurry and eat something. I take 2.5 mg. glibride daily. When I'm careful and then sometimes I go on a splurg and eat anything and everything. I am 75 and overweight |
 Carl61 |
July 18, 2009 10:54 PM OK, well now I have eaten a bowl of Blue Bell Ice Cream, the regular kind, like chocolate at around 8 or 9p.m. or so and the next morning my blood sugar would be in the High 90's. What give s on that if my sugar is supposed to be high in the morning anyway? I still don't get the who idea of testing 2 hr. after eating, I never can remember to do that. I most of the time just check when I first get up and used the toilet and then do the hand washing in med. hot to worm water and then test. I'm 61 going on 62 this Dec. 4Th. and have had type 2 ever since July 2005 and my A1c has been always in the 5.6 to 5.7 range so I just don't know if I'm truly in control or not cause I eat just about anything I wont at most any time. Let me know something please.
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