Now that my blood sugars are back in range, I’m having some challenges I never had before. For example, this morning I got up to make a trip to the bathroom and when I went back to bed, I felt really wonky. “I’m low,” I said to myself, not wanting to get out of bed and walk across the room to test. After a brief argument with myself, I got up and tested. 79.
Seventy-nine is not a real serious low. It’s just a low for me and it made me feel pretty icky – chills, shaking, nausea. I didn’t want to treat it aggressively since it wasn’t all that low so I ate a mini-bagel and some cheese (12g carbs, 12g protein). And hour or so later I was 120 which was fine with me.
Four hours later, when I actually got up, I was 135 – the highest I’ve been in the past few weeks. I know that I have some dawn phenomenon. If I test at an early morning bathroom break, I’m usually okay and then when I get up, I’m much higher. If I don’t eat in the morning, my blood sugar keeps going up. Of course, it goes up if I eat, too.
So, if I had just gone back to sleep and not eaten, do you think that chances are that my blood sugar would have gone up to a normal level by the time I awakened? Should I have treated the low or do I accept that I am just a tiny bit higher than “normal” in the morning afterward? I don’t have that much experience with lows in general and none since I’ve started with the dawn phenomenon.
Anyone have ideas? Experiences to share?
Interesting how we feel icky at only slightly low… I do too. I think you over treated the low slightly… ever so slightly cause your high wasn’t severe either ( from my perspective anyway ). trial and error seems the only way to go but if the rest of the day went well I say good job! After being in the 200-300 range myself I like your problems better than mine friend lol
By: Phatz on September 29, 2008
at 1:56 am
I feel your pain, Phatz. It seems that the way to get those sugars down (for me) is to starve.
Oh, no, surely I mean “eat a really healthy diet.”
By: Zazzy on September 29, 2008
at 9:17 am
Well i suffer badly from the the mp, espically with the increase in the amount of daylight.
In winter i wake and then get up, in summer i wake up and stay in bed for a couple of hours
I get up around 7 am. so in winter my bsl dropped to 6-8
in summer around 8-10
By: pug2n on October 2, 2008
at 4:23 pm