I was taking all my pills in the mornings, I switched to night time and my morning went down. Now I only take 50u of insulin at night. Check with your Dr. about changing times. It worked for me.

ALL your pills or just diabetic ones ? My dr told me to take Metformin later in the evening.

When I was first diagnosed my level was at 700 and a 13 a1c .That was in september of 2009..I get readings between 90-131 now and a1c is between 6.4-6.6.I lost alot of weight and gave up regular soda.I gained some of my weight back during the holidays but my sugar stayed about the same.Even though my overall is ok I was just still wondering why I get higher numbers.in the morning.I take 1000mg of metformin in the morning and 1000 at night.I am going to try taking it later at night and see if it makes a difference.
I had to make a decision with the steroid thing also ,I have a back injury which causes me a great deal of pain in my right leg.It was suggested I take a steroid injection but I refused after hearing some horror stories with people's sugar levels

You have done well, Proverb.
Better than I..My average is down to 140 (past 4 days)
A month ago, it was around 200.
Diet, some exercise, insulin (now) a little Glyburide (2.5 mg).
This is one excellent forum.

i get steroid shot sin the head for bad migraines. i chose the other way. i decided liviing with horrible migraines isnt worth it and i asked my dr what he would recommend and he said the steroid shots would help me and benefit me more so i get them monthly.

if its between havin SEVERE pain to the point of wanting to gash my eyes out and having high bs every now and then i take the high bs over the migraines.

Does that mean you dont have diabetes - only high bs once in a while. That's pretty good.

HI everyone,
I too seem to have this problem. I wake up with a typical fast glucose reading in the mid 90's -130 on any given day but a simple sandwich for example (avg 30 carbs) can send me soaring over 200 in the morning. It seems my body don't handle carbs of any kind good in the morning until my body "warms" up to the day and my pancreas seems to work. So i typically keep my meals high in protein and low in carbs (no more than 15-20 grams) until my pancreas "wakes" up. This process can take from 2-2 hours.

* 2 -4 hours.

I try to stick to 15-20 carbs per meal no matter what time of day; otherwise, my bs soars.

i am trying to get the hang of being on this support group I am also high in the morning and just take it for granted that this occurs due to the body being inactive during sleep. I appreciate the posts and what others are doing to help lower that morning number. I am having a tough time lately, due to taking on caregiver responsiblities for an elderly aunt and just the cold snowy winter that does not motivate me at all. Thanks for the posts

When you say your BS "soars", are you talking about 1 1/2 -2 hours after you eat?

Please define "soars".
My "fasting" BG , 7:30 in the morn,is roughly 15% higher than the other 3 readings during the day....

On most readings mine run between 120 - 145 somewhere avge prob 130. My A1C was 5.6 and Doc said it is very hard to achieve the 80-100 readings desired. He said when you don't eat the body releases sugar and that's why the # are higher. He was not worried since my A1C was very good after 6 mos on this regimen. I have no idea if this is the way with everyone as we are all different.

What I mean by 'soars' is my bs goes up 40-50 points 2 hours after a meal..

Steve - those numbers arent low but you somehow got a very low A1C. How do you explain that ?

Arline, I don't have any Idea how to explain it. If I did I'd share it on here.