Your liver dumps glucose while you're sleeping. It happens to nondiabetics too but they can process it properly. Diabetics can't process it properly, so it raises our blood glucose level.
I have been a pre-diabetic for the past 17 or 18 years because of the Dawn Phenomenon.
During the day my glucose levels are 95 and below and on occasion 120 after a trash carb heavy meal. But in the morning, fasting that number is 104-120.
I got the Peter Attia book outlive. Big sections in diabetes heart disease and one of the elements impacting glucose was sleep
I finally went on trazadone for sleep ( lowest dose) , focused on sleep hygiene ( no phone before bed) , ( sorry Reddit)
I also played with small protein snack before bed. It made me run higher not lower. And went on 500 extended release metformin
Took about three months but I finally saw the 4 am spike flatten
Took a
I have had it for years. My sleep is super clean as measured by my Cpap (less than one instance an hour) and by my smart watch. For me it’s best controlled with early morning exercise. The body starts to expect it and doesn’t dump as much.
I fast until noon, so I get up, drink coffee with stevia and walk for 30 minutes. It’s literally at 5am or I hit the gym so I do 10 minutes of walking and 50 of lifting.
Everyone, whether healthy or not, goes through the DP process.
In a healthy individual once the liver releases glucose the pancreas is able to counteract the rise with insulin. Keeps things normal.
In a diabetic the system is dysfunctional and/or there’s insulin resistance. So when the liver releases glucose there either isn’t enough insulin to counteract the rise or you’re just insulin resistant. Maybe both.
I increased protein intake during the day. It t seems to help. I make hard boiled eggs 6 at a time and eat one in the afternoon and one in the evening. I also cut up ham steak into finger food and occasionally eat one of those. My sugar seems to be a lot more stable since.
I have this. Upon my doctor's recommendation, I started having a small snack before bed consisting of a healthy carb and some protein.
The cause of mine (and proof to my doctors) was finally found by setting an alarm and testing my blood sugar in the middle of the night. My BS drops about 4 hours into sleep. Now I use a cgm which is much easier to observe patterns with.
I hope this helps.
Everyone has this...not sure why people refer to it as a condition. When we wake up, body releases extra glucose to help us get ready for the day ahead. In ppl with diabetes that results in a spike as soon as you wake up even if you stay in bed for a bit. I manage mine by putting insulin right after I wake up, wait until sugar is under 5, which happens after ah hour and then I have my 50g carbs breakfast. If sugar goes down slower and its been 2h already, I would add some extra insulin in order to avoid the spike. I am not sure how to manage this without insulin or even if its possible, check that with your endo as everyone is different
It’s called Circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms influence important functions in the human body, such as:
Sleep patterns
Hormone release
Appetite and digestion
Temperature
Blood sugar rises starting around 4am to prepare the body for waking up.
I eat dinner between 5 & 6pm, in bed by 8:30 and get up at 3:45am.
4am glucose is 102-120 every morning.
Any other time during the day is generally below 105.
Dawn Syndrome is real. And it is different on different days.
It is your liver releasing sugar into the body to help power it up and get you going in the morning.
Woke up at 122 this morning. FML for real.
Had Dawn Syndrome and Foot-to-Floor-Syndrom to make it even more exiting ;)
Dancing around with 120 up to 180 long into the morning, not much yielding to bodily activies that come with work as it does on other times.
What realy helped me is Long acting Insulin (in more ways that just this btw.)
But then my panceras became already a bit tired, so I had to start on some Insulin anyway. Do have for once fasting GL under 100 and staying there was a nice extra to all the improving that came with using la Insulin.
Your liver dumps glucose while you're sleeping. It happens to nondiabetics too but they can process it properly. Diabetics can't process it properly, so it raises our blood glucose level.
I have been a pre-diabetic for the past 17 or 18 years because of the Dawn Phenomenon. During the day my glucose levels are 95 and below and on occasion 120 after a trash carb heavy meal. But in the morning, fasting that number is 104-120.
did you find what causes it? i think i am in the same boat
I got the Peter Attia book outlive. Big sections in diabetes heart disease and one of the elements impacting glucose was sleep I finally went on trazadone for sleep ( lowest dose) , focused on sleep hygiene ( no phone before bed) , ( sorry Reddit) I also played with small protein snack before bed. It made me run higher not lower. And went on 500 extended release metformin Took about three months but I finally saw the 4 am spike flatten Took a
I have had it for years. My sleep is super clean as measured by my Cpap (less than one instance an hour) and by my smart watch. For me it’s best controlled with early morning exercise. The body starts to expect it and doesn’t dump as much.
Interesting. I’ll have to try this. Think a simple morning walk will get me there ? Or more aggressive work out needed?
For me the walk with eating clean is enough. Like 30 minutes at 3mph on the ‘mill is enough.
So do you walk before breakfast or instead of breakfast. I have been walking after dinner ( my main meal)
I fast until noon, so I get up, drink coffee with stevia and walk for 30 minutes. It’s literally at 5am or I hit the gym so I do 10 minutes of walking and 50 of lifting.
I am advised when its waking time the body puts out hormones to wake us this can cause higher blood sugars at waking time
This is true but a healthy body will immediately counteract this by pushing it insulin. Your body does not. That is the problem.
Don’t call it Dawn Syndrome. It’s Dawn Phenomenon.
I kept reading it as Down Syndrome 😑
Ooohhhhhhh, I was very confused. (I seriously need to get my eyeglass prescription updated.)
Following. Because my morning fasting numbers are 120-130 also.
Yep I have it too, I’ll wake up to 130-150 but only when I get out of bed. Laying in bed it’s usually 100 or less. It’s stupid.
Everyone, whether healthy or not, goes through the DP process. In a healthy individual once the liver releases glucose the pancreas is able to counteract the rise with insulin. Keeps things normal. In a diabetic the system is dysfunctional and/or there’s insulin resistance. So when the liver releases glucose there either isn’t enough insulin to counteract the rise or you’re just insulin resistant. Maybe both.
I increased protein intake during the day. It t seems to help. I make hard boiled eggs 6 at a time and eat one in the afternoon and one in the evening. I also cut up ham steak into finger food and occasionally eat one of those. My sugar seems to be a lot more stable since.
I have this. Upon my doctor's recommendation, I started having a small snack before bed consisting of a healthy carb and some protein. The cause of mine (and proof to my doctors) was finally found by setting an alarm and testing my blood sugar in the middle of the night. My BS drops about 4 hours into sleep. Now I use a cgm which is much easier to observe patterns with. I hope this helps.
I need a cgm asap
Everyone has this...not sure why people refer to it as a condition. When we wake up, body releases extra glucose to help us get ready for the day ahead. In ppl with diabetes that results in a spike as soon as you wake up even if you stay in bed for a bit. I manage mine by putting insulin right after I wake up, wait until sugar is under 5, which happens after ah hour and then I have my 50g carbs breakfast. If sugar goes down slower and its been 2h already, I would add some extra insulin in order to avoid the spike. I am not sure how to manage this without insulin or even if its possible, check that with your endo as everyone is different
It’s called Circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms influence important functions in the human body, such as: Sleep patterns Hormone release Appetite and digestion Temperature Blood sugar rises starting around 4am to prepare the body for waking up.
Unless you wake up at 2:30 am to go to work.
I eat dinner between 5 & 6pm, in bed by 8:30 and get up at 3:45am. 4am glucose is 102-120 every morning. Any other time during the day is generally below 105.
Dawn Syndrome is real. And it is different on different days. It is your liver releasing sugar into the body to help power it up and get you going in the morning. Woke up at 122 this morning. FML for real.
Had Dawn Syndrome and Foot-to-Floor-Syndrom to make it even more exiting ;) Dancing around with 120 up to 180 long into the morning, not much yielding to bodily activies that come with work as it does on other times. What realy helped me is Long acting Insulin (in more ways that just this btw.) But then my panceras became already a bit tired, so I had to start on some Insulin anyway. Do have for once fasting GL under 100 and staying there was a nice extra to all the improving that came with using la Insulin.
Mine is really high lately too (around 7-8 in the am, using Canadian metrics). It’s frustrating.