Rick49
03-03-2005, 10:51 PM
...Do you ever get those vertigo attacks in the wee hours of the morning? I've had several in my 20+ years and I got to thinking about them. Two of them, that I can remember, came when I was trying to lose weight and changed up my routine of eating my snack before bedtime. I always have a snack before bedtime so I can get to sleep and it's usually a bowl of frosted flakes. Nothing to do with my MM, just always seems to get the job done as far as helpng me get to sleep.
...The two times, that I remember, one time I had some celery before bedtime abnd the other time I had cabbage before bedtime. I never thought I had an allergy to these foods, but I did resolve not to have these before bedtime again. I got to thinking this week, that I went from a medium to high carb meal to a very low carb meal. I don't have a blood sugar problem but from my last blood tests, I noticed that my fasting blood sugar was higher than what I was expecting for having not eaten for 10 hours. I think it was around 110.
...This puzzled me as to "how can blood sugar posibbly be so high after not eating for that long?" Kind of like wiping your butt before going to the bathroom, it just doesn't make good sense (Larry the cable guy). Of course, I had to research this one on the net and found the "Dawn Phenomenon". This is a condition common to diabetics where blood sugar rises in the early morning because of adrenal and growth hormone releases and once a person eats in the morning, the blood sugar goes back down. Kind of reverse of what you would expect.
...So this made me think of "what would happen to a person whose insulin is still working at controlling Blood sugar but not as good as it used to be?" Well it seems to me that instead of high blood sugar levels, there would be high insulin levels instead and normal, or near normal, blood sugar readings.
..Ah Ha, I said. Another case of high insulin levels that wouldn't be a reaction to a high carb meal!! So the question is, " Could the early morning Vertigo attacks, most of us have suffered, be caused from The Dawn Phenomenon?" Even if their not, isn't that a great name for them?
...The two times, that I remember, one time I had some celery before bedtime abnd the other time I had cabbage before bedtime. I never thought I had an allergy to these foods, but I did resolve not to have these before bedtime again. I got to thinking this week, that I went from a medium to high carb meal to a very low carb meal. I don't have a blood sugar problem but from my last blood tests, I noticed that my fasting blood sugar was higher than what I was expecting for having not eaten for 10 hours. I think it was around 110.
...This puzzled me as to "how can blood sugar posibbly be so high after not eating for that long?" Kind of like wiping your butt before going to the bathroom, it just doesn't make good sense (Larry the cable guy). Of course, I had to research this one on the net and found the "Dawn Phenomenon". This is a condition common to diabetics where blood sugar rises in the early morning because of adrenal and growth hormone releases and once a person eats in the morning, the blood sugar goes back down. Kind of reverse of what you would expect.
...So this made me think of "what would happen to a person whose insulin is still working at controlling Blood sugar but not as good as it used to be?" Well it seems to me that instead of high blood sugar levels, there would be high insulin levels instead and normal, or near normal, blood sugar readings.
..Ah Ha, I said. Another case of high insulin levels that wouldn't be a reaction to a high carb meal!! So the question is, " Could the early morning Vertigo attacks, most of us have suffered, be caused from The Dawn Phenomenon?" Even if their not, isn't that a great name for them?