Dawn Phenomena

docslotnick
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:15:06 +0000
Treatment

I read about diabetics having Dawn phenomena, where their Bg spikes in the morning for no apparent reason.

I generally have the opposite dawn effect. When I wake up and start moving around my Bg goes down. Like this morning at 6:30am my Bg was 140. I got up 15 minutes later and it dropped to 90 just before I stumbled into the shower. By the time I was dressed and out the door I was in the low 70’s.

This is usual enough that I wouldn’t even consider correcting a mild high first thing in the morning.

I have never in my life been a morning person. I really don’t get moving well until I’ve been awake for a couple of hours. I wonder if my liver doesn’t dump glycogen in the early morning.

Does anyone else have this “reverse” dawn phenomenon?

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