Can someone help me with my blood sugar?

[thereoncewaslove]

I have insulin resistant PCOS and type 2 diabetes.

I have been managing to keep my blood sugars pretty stable throughout the day through diet and am on 500 mg of metformin.

However, I woke up during the night feeling really thirsty and so since I was up I took my blood sugar which was 7.3 so slightly high but nothing too bad. When I got up for the day I took it again and it had risen to 8.1. Again slightly high but not too much. I then went to yoga, came home and it has risen to 12.4.

I'm so confused as I haven't had anything to eat this morning and only have drank water. Are these highs normal and what everyone experiences and I'm just noticing because I'm taking my sugar levels?

I'm feeling quite deflated as I try and keep it stable with food but then it goes wonky anyways. Am I missing something?

I'm T1 so those numbers don't scare me too much but I appreciate T2 are supposed to run lower than that and your levels work differently anyway.

IME Its normal for your BG to be higher in the morning, your liver can dump glucose into your system when you wake up and if you had anything to eat yesterday with low glycemic index it can hit you later than you expect.

Exercise can also put your BG up as your muscles release glucose when you do any kind of strength training whereas they would drop with cardio.
You should find that they level out during the day after exercise though but it's always hard to fight back the dawn rise, it can take me until midday to get back in range without breakfast and literally injecting insulin!

@herewegoagainst thank you!

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