What may have have happened is that your BG went lower last night after you tested at 10:30. Perhaps between 10:30-12:30 you went considerably lower. Agree, doesn’t seem that your body would need to dump glucose at 100. From what I’ve experienced, our bodies adjust to more normal BG pretty quickly.
Exercise, strenuous exercise, sends me high & then low–opposite of you. Hate those high readings, so now I stick to more moderate exercise.
I find that if I don’t sleep well, ie: waking up, tossing and turning, or being disturbed by my hubby snoring… my BG is higher in the morning. But, I also appear to be a “non dipper” meaning I often wake up with my BG higher in the morning than it was the night before. It was worse when I was heavier…
Recently I’ve started taking 1/2 of an excederin pm before I go to sleep, (mostly to put my silly self out) … and in the morning my BG is the same or lower than it was the night before. How weird is that?
Non-dipper–never heard Dawn Phenonmenon called this. Like that a lot better!
Aspirin does often lower BG.
Yep. Stress, even 2nd hand stress I imagine, can really do a number (literally) on you.
What is Symlin? Does it work against dawn phenomenon?
That’s probably true, that your body is used to higher numbers and thinks they’re “normal.” That’s the same as when, after running high numbers for a long time, when you get toward the normal range, the body gets all freaked out and acts like it’s experiencing a low.
The 143 could just be meter error. They are no longer any good and could be plus or minus 20. Caffeine spikes my BG quite a bit, presumably you had decaf at that hour?
no decaf for this boy. 
yes, meters can produce bizarre readings. Pays to have a few around to check a strange reading.
Well if it was not decaf then you have your answer. Coffee raises BG in most people. In non-diabetics people also this may explain why it perks you up.
You wonder if when you have a strange reading you should measure with 2 meters an accucheck that is usually high and my one touch was low.
I wish my BG could be in the 130s 2 hours after eating.Im more like in middle 200s.I notice in the morning when I get up my blood will be a good number around 100 ,I wont eat anything and test 2 hours later it will be 150 or higher.Not sure why,Im on the pump.Your numbers seem real good to me though you must have good A1C’s.
Dear Brad. Much too high after meals. Fiddle with the bolus. to get this down.
I think so…a girlfriend of mine (with a MA in Directing) said that the brain is active in watching theater and TV. (So much for “resting” in front of the TV.) I guess we respond emotionally, or advertisers wouldn’t bother!!!
Some people have higher baseline levels of cortisol, anyway. Some relationship to blood type, some say. I also wonder if a stress response becomes so practiced over the years that it is more easily triggered.
I had higher levels w/ a more stressful job.
I also have suddenly suddenly high levels when my son and I are having a tiff.
So, I’ll buy your theory, as is!
Elaine
I can eat nothing and drink only water…and up it goes. No reason. I look at a carb and it sores. On Symlin now…doesn’t seem to be working either. Running out of solutions.
What you should do is test to find out what the issue is. Exercise without the coffee and movie. What happens. What happens after just coffee. What happens after an exciting movie. I do this to narrow down the main issues of what causes jumps. I know that when I wake up and feel awake then I have good numbers but the days the alarm wakes me up and I have to push myself out of bed, my numbers are high.
Hi Brad,
Don’t know if this will help, but my BG is worse in the morning if I don’t eat. I’m not a morning person & have to force myself to eat & bolus shortly after waking up. All I can guess is that it’s my liver dumping glucose because I haven’t eaten.
Hi Dora,
Sorry to hear Symlin isn’t working for you.
Have you spoken to your endo about taking insulin? Helps a lot of Type 2s get better control when oral meds & Symlin don’t do the trick.
I take Lantus once a day and Apidra (fast acting) before meals. We just started adding the Symlin a little over a week ago. I’ll have to give it some time. I do feel like a pin cushion.
Hey Mark,
Gary Schindler’s book “Think Like a Pancreas - A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin” states “caffeine tends to raise blood sugar approx 1 hour after ingestion. It does this by stimulating the secretion of stress hormones and promating the breakdown of fat (rather than sugar) for energy.”
The book indicates that caffeine affects different people differently. It raises blood sugar in some enough to compensate for it, but not in others. It recommends that you check your blood sugar when you ingest caffeine, take insulin for a known meal without caffeine (or without food), and then 3 hours later to see what the affect is, if any. Try this again with the caffeine, and you will know how it affects you. That is if you are on insulin, if you are not on insulin, I am not sure what you do. I guess you can become a lab rat for a while until you figure it out.
Caffeine has been noted in some studies as a cause for raised blood sugars… I typically just have some decaf, so I can get the good benefits of the coffee, without the bad of the caffeine.