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Originally Posted by Cinnabon Well, Its pretty simple to determine this. If you go to bed with a normal BS level, dont have anything to eat, and wake with an elevated reading, then your liver is dumping.
There are a few that experience these small dumps later on in the day. | Liver dump and dawn phenomenon are two different items. Waking to a high elevetated BG is a result of a liver dump known as the Somogyi Effect. Dawn phenomenon is simply a resistance to insulin in the morning after your body wakes up. Key word being AFTER.
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