Why are fasting blood glucose levels high in the morning?
This is called the Dawn Phenomenon, and pay attention to your body. When morning readings are higher than nightime, somethis is amiss somewhere. Are you taking insulin, if not skip to the next paragraph. If you are then it may be you are taking too little insulin, you are running out at night and then your BG rises. Even if you are on insulin you may be experiencing one of the things in the next paragraph, which affect insulin dependant, medicated, and diet controlled diabetics. High morning readings are important to pay attention to, and is usually caused by 1 of two things. You are either experiencing morning insulin resistance which is your body reacting to the morning hormones we all release – the things that perpare us for they day. Or you are experiencing a liver dump, which is a reaction to too low (hypoglocemic) BG levels at night, causing you liver to dump all of its glucose, which spikes your reading. LIVER DUMP can be fixed by a small snack at night (I have this) Do not eat
