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What was your blood glucose level when you woke up and began your day today?
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126. My original phone number. A party line where you had to turn the crank and ask an operator to connect you to somebody. 🦽
86. Pretty consistent. My blood glucoses drop in the am because of the extra insulin from my dawn effect. However, I need the extra insulin in the morning because my blood glucoses shoot up after breakfast.
Oh yes, I use Control IQ.
If it’s truly a dawn phenomenon, that’s a result of a lie insulin level about an hour before you see the upswing in your glucose. Normally, your blood insulin level is the signal for glucagon production, when your insulin level goes down, your body produces glucagon to raise your bg to stimulate insulin production which shuts off glucagon production and stabilizes all three levels (bg, Indulin, glucagon). Obviously, in our T1D bodies, the insulin never comes, the glucose continues to rise (the Dawn phenomenon is one manifestation of this). To stop that rise, the insulin level must be increased before the rise typically manifests- even if your glucose is normal at the time. This last part is very counterintuitive
Normal morning BGs are probably what I love most about Control IQ, along with an uninterrupted night’s sleep.
Was 65 but trends right up
124. bad part is that was after taking a shot at 3:45. 🙁
It’s actually too soon to know what my BG is when I wake up to begin my day today since I’m actually about to go to bed instead of get up. I won’t be getting up to start my day today until around 5 PM, after which, my “today” won’t end until probably around 10 AM tomorrow!!!
Control IQ, morning BG seems to land 4-6 most of the time
I have Dawn Phenomena, so I try to wake up to prevent it.
My daughter usually wakes up between 80-110 since starting OP5 in November. We use to struggle with dawn phenomenon but have tackled that and now she has way better numbers at night and we get better sleep!
Since using Control IQ I am usually close to 100mg/dl in the mornings. Starting the day in rang makes it so much easier to stay in range for the day.
96 this morning. I am commonly in the 90s since starting control IQ and sleeping through the night most of the time. Couldn’t have done this before.
I was at the high end of this “scale” at 70mg/dL, which I wanted to note, is a normal fasting blood sugar!
On injections can’t vary my doses, trusting the CGM it generally alerts me “predicting” a low in the 70’s (this morning 3AM. Does that count? Sipped a sweetened drink and got out of bed a few hours later mid 90’s.
about the same as that for me every morning…
It was 113, but I rose late this morning, so the dawn phenomenon/ ‘feet-on-the-floor’ syndrome hit just after rising. Within 10 minutes, I was at 150. No longer can bolus and eat right away due to levothyroxine. I’m normally, very tight in-range (90-130) during the night, but as soon as my feet hit the floor, my BG rises. I’m in a high-stress situation at this point in my life, with several caregiving responsibilities with family, so waking up brings all that to the forefront.
111 and as soon as she stood up to go the bathroom it dropped to 75
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Meter swiped
It was in range on my CGM so I didn’t have to worry about it!