CGM and Dawn Effect Q

(Cancer Fighting Ketovore :)) #1

For those who have. CGM (would love to have one for a few weeks or a month) and experience the dawn effect, can you post about your experiences with it?

Does your dawn effect change (timing) based on when you get up in the morning?

(Mary Jo Koplos) #2

So, I am 8 days in to a Freestyle Libre. It has been quite eye opening. I have found out that the food I eat barely affects my blood glucose readings. The biggest jumps happen starting at 4am and it can sometimes take several hours to come all the way back down. Because that happens on fasting days I have to believe it is because my body is off-loading stored glucose.
Today, for example, is an eating day and my numbers started coming down much sooner. I find it this fascinating. Even though I would rather have the DP go away, my average blood glucose puts me in about a 5.7 A1C range without insulin so I am OK with that for now.

(Cancer Fighting Ketovore :)) #3

I’ve noticed with dinner stuck tests I can be in the high 70s at 7:30am, but then it goes up, but them will come down after a few hours.

I don’t have need of a CGM, but would like to have one

#4

I have Type 2 diabetes and I’m on day two of having the Freestyle Libre. I’m finding that the Freestyle has rather consistently been 20 points lower than my blood glucose readings on my Keto Mojo. It was a little disconcerting at first to see the Freestyle Libre saying that I was hypoglycemic…:expressionless: