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.
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?