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Having sugar numbers go from usual to high above "in range"
Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Jul 16, 2019 | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
@retiredteacher, my doc told me that if your blood sugar drops at night (or early morning while still sleeping) the liver starts producing glucose, which raises morning fasting blood sugars. Since I'm on long-acting insulin at night (i know you aren't) he had me decrease it and to be sure to have a reasonable bedtime snack to prevent my blood sugar from dropping too much overnight and stimulating the liver to make sugar. I'm not a doc, this is just what mine told me. It's called Smyogyi Syndrome and I'm not sure but I thing it happens to non-insulin dependent diabetcs also.
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Carol, so that's why her doctor told my sister to eat a snack at bedtime and she chowed down, getting more obese every day. She wasn't controlling her eating and she wasn't educating herself and she argued with me, and then just quit paying any attention to it at all. She lost her eyesight bad enough to not be able to drive, and had other chronic illnesses as well. Yes, she died very ill. I don't really know what all medicines she was taking, except that she said she was on six blood pressure meds and they weren't working. She drank as well, and took addictive pain meds which she said were not harmful. Ignorance is not bliss. Dorisena