In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Yeah. I'm certainly developing some patterns here. Even if my monitor didn't point that out with the data that I feed the program on the PC, I'd have spotted it since it's a big neon sign.
Something is happening at around 5:00-6:00 AM where my sugar spikes.
Two nights ago I was reading high when I went to bed (high 100's/low 200's and trending slowly downward until around 5:00AM). Last night I was well within range when I went to bed (Around 120 and mostly a little below that).
Yesterday morning I woke up at 9:00AM at 220. This morning I woke up around 8:40AM at 208.
So either we've got ourselves a Dawn Phenomenon and/or my Long-Active insulin shots aren't lasting 24 hours.
It's not the Somogyi Effect, at least not now, because I've not yet had hypoglycemia during the night.
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Named after Michael Somogyi, PhD, a chemist who was the first to describe it in the 1930s, the Somogyi effect is the body’s response to low blood glucose (hypoglycemia) during the night. Say you miss dinner or take too much insulin after your evening meal. Your blood glucose may fall too low overnight. Your body makes more glucose in order to compensate, and you wake up with high blood glucose.
They say the answer most likely is NOT to up the Long-Active dose because that could bring me down too low during the day. I possibly need to be taking that dose later in the day, switch to a twice daily long shot, switch to an Ultra-Long-Active shot or use an insulin pump. (Eventually, I want to be on an insulin pump anyhow).
Morning workouts can help. Evening can too, but they say to be careful about the evening workouts since they can make you dip too low at night while you're sleeping.
I think it might be time to add my workouts back into my day. I'm going to my aunt's today and we're going to my Grandma's service. I may stay there overnight and help her out with things she needs helping with too. Tuesday morning I plan on working out again. I don't want to risk doing it before I head out on the road for 40 minutes since I'll be eating and doing some insulin already before I leave. I haven't worked out since the monitor was installed and I don't have any clue what it does to my sugar levels.
153.0 lbs on the scale today. I'm back, baby.
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Just a Sunday around me.
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Quote:Since apparently everyone's cortisol, adrenaline, and sugar go up at stupid o'clock I guess that's to be expected. I noticed that when dear daughter was on a very strict medically induced keto diet for seizure control: her urine ketones (a measure of fat-burning) were always LOWEST in the AM, even after fasting all night. I was told that was normal.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. I'm certainly developing some patterns here. Even if my monitor didn't point that out with the data that I feed the program on the PC, I'd have spotted it since it's a big neon sign.
Something is happening at around 5:00-6:00 AM where my sugar spikes.
Two nights ago I was reading high when I went to bed (high 100's/low 200's and trending slowly downward until around 5:00AM). Last night I was well within range when I went to bed (Around 120 and mostly a little below that).
Yesterday morning I woke up at 9:00AM at 220. This morning I woke up around 8:40AM at 208.
So either we've got ourselves a Dawn Phenomenon and/or my Long-Active insulin shots aren't lasting 24 hours.
It's not the Somogyi Effect, at least not now, because I've not yet had hypoglycemia during the night.Quote:
Named after Michael Somogyi, PhD, a chemist who was the first to describe it in the 1930s, the Somogyi effect is the body’s response to low blood glucose (hypoglycemia) during the night. Say you miss dinner or take too much insulin after your evening meal. Your blood glucose may fall too low overnight. Your body makes more glucose in order to compensate, and you wake up with high blood glucose.
They say the answer most likely is NOT to up the Long-Active dose because that could bring me down too low during the day. I possibly need to be taking that dose later in the day, switch to a twice daily long shot, switch to an Ultra-Long-Active shot or use an insulin pump. (Eventually, I want to be on an insulin pump anyhow).
Morning workouts can help. Evening can too, but they say to be careful about the evening workouts since they can make you dip too low at night while you're sleeping.
I think it might be time to add my workouts back into my day. I'm going to my aunt's today and we're going to my Grandma's service. I may stay there overnight and help her out with things she needs helping with too. Tuesday morning I plan on working out again. I don't want to risk doing it before I head out on the road for 40 minutes since I'll be eating and doing some insulin already before I leave. I haven't worked out since the monitor was installed and I don't have any clue what it does to my sugar levels.
153.0 lbs on the scale today. I'm back, baby.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
I don't understand the afternoon dip. It's my understanding tho that humans have daily biological rhythms- cortisol, adrenaline, insulin, melatonin, thyroid hormones etc all go up and down in regular patterns.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Just a Sunday around me.
Same here. Gonna spend some quality time digging up weeds but not gonna push myself to do a lot extra like I did yesterday, when I washed the dog and did some housework as well.
For puupy-wuppy's health, and for mine, I take her on the longest walk she's up for, which is usually somewhere between a half mile to 3/4 mile. Not hugely long but better than nothing.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just a Sunday around me.
Same here. Gonna spend some quality time digging up weeds but not gonna push myself to do a lot extra like I did yesterday, when I washed the dog and did some housework as well.
For puupy-wuppy's health, and for mine, I take her on the longest walk she's up for, which is usually somewhere between a half mile to 3/4 mile. Not hugely long but better than nothing.
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I am indoors and just listening to some music and playing cards.
Exercise is good. I will get enough of that next week. Dental appointment tomorrow, then hearing aides on Tuesday. Wednesday is a break day then Mah jong on Thursday and work on Friday. Then I have to fit in some book work as well.
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Well, two full bins at the curb. Not bad for a few hours work over 2 days. A lot more to go, tho.
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Out for a walk and the dentist.
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Quote:But you're on the downhill slide with the dentist, right? Just a follow-up, and then dial back to regular cleaning and exams?Altho, from the sound of things, this appt does make for a busy week!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for a walk and the dentist.
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Hey SIX, you 'round?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since apparently everyone's cortisol, adrenaline, and sugar go up at stupid o'clock I guess that's to be expected. I noticed that when dear daughter was on a very strict medically induced keto diet for seizure control: her urine ketones (a measure of fat-burning) were always LOWEST in the AM, even after fasting all night. I was told that was normal.
I don't understand the afternoon dip. It's my understanding tho that humans have daily biological rhythms- cortisol, adrenaline, insulin, melatonin, thyroid hormones etc all go up and down in regular patterns.
I think you're probably on to something. My long-active shot might need some alterations too.
I stayed over at my aunt's place after my Grandma's service and just got back a while ago. We had a good time.
I'm figuring this stuff out. The last 24 hours only had me above 200mg/dL for about 1 hour about 3 hours after dinner. When I shot again for a late snack I got it down to around 120. It was on the rise when I woke up at 7:00AM, but maybe because I didn't sleep in until 9:00AM it never went over around mid-180's. I was doing great all day and staying within my GOOD area until I must have overdone the insulin before we ate Pizza. I think I took 2 units too many for the 6 pieces that I ate. When I left her place to drive home I was 110, but only 15 minutes later in the car I got my below 80 reading and had to take tabs when I got to 65. I actually dipped to 59 before the tabs brought me back up. I just wanted to make sure I was up before I got on the expressway, which I was. I'm now at 110 again and stable.
Except for that dip, I've been in the GOOD zone since about 11:30PM last night. I haven't gone over 200 once today.
I'm hoping once I keep these numbers low that my body starts helping me with evening my numbers out. I always hate when I have to take glucose tabs because I view that as wasted insulin and carbs that could be spent on real food instead of "saving" myself with pure sugar for overdoing the insulin units. If I keep having to do that I won't have to worry about being underweight ever again for sure, but ingesting 15grams of pure sugar every day is probably just as bad for me long term as having 400mg/dL 24/7.
I'll get there...
UPDATE: Yeah. Weight is no longer an issue. With the hoodie I always hold when I'm weighing myself since I had it on back when it was still cold and I hit as low as 143.4lbs, I'm now 154.2lbs.
It's going to be weird worrying about eating too much again. I've probably been dealing with diabetes in the background so long before I realized there were obvious issues that I mistook that for a high metabolic rate.
I'm happy to see some belly fat after looking so gaunt there for a while, but I need to tap the breaks on the eating and put on the weight the right way.
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