What is the hardest part of the day for you to achieve good blood sugar numbers? Is it during the early A.M, before/after breakfast, lunch, dinner or in the late evening hours?
Mine hands down are the late (late!) evening hours between 10 pm-2am. I find it tricky to balance exercise (after dinner), a late night snack and NOT going to bed on the low side. The rest of the day I do fairly well.
For me it’s late evening. I am all over the map. I have overnight/morning/lunch/afternoon dialed in pretty well thanks to my CGM, but the rest really feels like a guessing game since what works one day does NOT work the next… it’s very frustrating 
I am almost always able to compensate for anything (low or high) before I go to bed, and my fastings are usually fine, but it would be nice to have everything just “work right” for once.
For me, it seems to be in the morning, I wake up low and even though I eat a small breakfast I can still go up high on some days (well, high for the number I started at). So, I guess after breakfast mostly.
Mine is between the hours of 5 pm-8pm when I get home from work.
I’m frequently high in the late afternoon, 3-5 p.m. and apparently for no good reason! Still struggling with adjusting my basal rates to get it below 250. After lunch I’m great, so I’m wondering if I have an afternoon phenomenon in addition to the morning one too.
See, that’s what my struggle seems like late in the evening. We often don’t eat dinner until REALLY late, but I’ll start creeping up after about 6pm. Increasing my basal rate has resulted in lows, so I’m starting to think there is something else involved… that isn’t food 
Evening, after dinner. My nurse actually asked me if I were a night person, because it’s more common to struggle with morning readings. Freaky me.
Definitely the evening, like Sarah.
I think it’s because my routine is predictable from when I wake up to when I get home. Breakfast and lunch come at the same time and are measured. I exercise at the same time. But there’s a wide variation in what time I eat dinner and what I eat. I don’t always count the carbs accurately. I snack without bolusing for it. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Knowing what’s wrong and doing something about it are two different things, aren’t they?
Terry
laughing!
My issues are very much like yours. I do pretty well throughout the day and manage to maintain a good and level BG, but post-dinner through overnight I have my biggest difficulty in keeping level. More and more I am able to get through the night without my Dexcom not sounding an alarm in one direction or the other, but I’m not always successful. This morning I hit 180 around 6. Damn dawn phenomenon.
Yes Terry they are two different things. But I sometimes put them together as one.
2am to 8 am seems that my CGM shows higher numbers from 2 to 6 and then when I treat that low numbers pop up till bout 8 am
really, the hardest part for me is first thing in the morning. all i want is coffee. and so often when i deal with D before coffee i often screw up somehow…taking two shots instead of one because i’m not awake enough or taking the wrong insulin.
i really am looking forward to getting my pump…
Oh I hate it when I’m not awake enough…! Lots of times that results in bruises too…
For me it has always been evenings, after dinner. I struggled with binge eating for years, although it’s under control now, but I rarely binged during the day. And even though I don’t binge anymore, it’s a nightly struggle to keep myself occupied and away from food.
Ruth
Boy, more people have problems at night than in the morning. I wonder if it matters whether or not you are T2 or T1? Or is it just the dawn phenomena that some people have? I am T2.
Also I wonder if it might be relevant to when you exercise? I am NOT a morning person - you are lucky to even get me out of bed in the morning! HAHA! I am a night owl and I have always been that way if I tried to exercise in the morning I might break my leg I am so out of it! LOL! So I always do my exercising at night because I more alert than before din and than I some toning and weights after I am digested. This could be around 10pm and even 111pm so I usually go to bed low.
Just wondering if there is a corelation to any of this.
That’s interesting. I’m not a morning person either, and I’m glad my kids never wake me up at some godawful hour now that they sleep through the night.
Hmmm now you got me thinking. When the time is right, maybe ballroom dancing classes in the evening to deal with those natural evening highs?
Same for me Danny, late evening and early early am BGs have been impossible for me to maintain within normal levels. Having to intentionally maintain a BG around 150 before bedtime just to get through the night without going too hypo is teh suck. It’s too easy to make a mistake and go high. =/
The 12:00 a.m to 6:00 a.m. was giving me some problems high BS. But a recent Basal change has made a big difference already. New to the pump and not 100% confident in making changes. My educator suggested to make my own changes. But make them one at a time.
Normally, I would say morning. Even if I do the exact same thing every morning, I seem to have 2 or 3 days that my BS shoots up after I have coffee in the morning - the same dose works other mornings. My Dexcom reports even showed the worst standard deviation between 7 & 8 because my BS shoots up, I end up taking too much insulin & it comes crashing back down. The past couple weeks though, I have been having problems after lunch and that is the worst time now per my Dex reports.