Wearing Lingo CGM (continuous glucose monitor). See what it says about a “night spike”:
The app allows you to search for information, but it has nothing about “night spikes”.
Anyone ever heard of this term?
That “spike” went from about 80 to about 100. I have no idea what could cause this.
Although it’s interesting to see the (slight) elevation between midnight and 2am [well before the onset of a typical “dawn effect” begins to kick in, with its signature gentle sloping rise until wake-up time], I would not call what’s seen in the graph as anything like a “spike.”
On the contrary, it seems your body has a nice self-regulated pattern underway with no material excursions. It looks like a well-controlled round of gluconeogenesis during sleep while your body is repairing/restoring physical and cerebral functions (which does require some level of glucose).
At this point are you concerned - or just curious?
Never heard that as a term, but our sugar can bounce all over the place in the night hours. I’m with you, 20 as a “spike” is a little dramatic, but all those apps are also geared towards people who know nothing and learning, so it’s got to say something I guess.
I almost completely stopped caring about any one number and way more concerned with my averages. I’d rather have an actual spike from 85 to 180 that I recover from in an hour than go from 85 to 140 and spend 4hrs fixing it.