I am on a pump, OmniPod. I have reconfigured my basal numbers over and over. I don’t usually wake up high, I start to go high after I wake up.
The problem is that I can’t program a significant basal increase at a specific morning time, because I don’t always wake up at the same time! So for me it is just easier (and much safer) to hit a small bolus as soon as I wake up. And also for me, if I am low, like 60 or less, I don’t need it. But if I am 80 or 90, I DO need it.
Hmmm…I think there is a clue in there somewhere. Like what you mentioned about waking up 60, and taking a g-tab and not going too high. It may be that if we are low, our body is more conservative about how much liver glycogen it supplies as we wake up.
Here is the link I mentioned earlier. It is on THIS site.
https://forum.tudiabetes.org/t/do-you-take-when-feet-hit-the-floor-insulin