Stress - can’t get sugars down

[Freema]

starving is also not a way to cope with stress

 

[Antje77]

Because i was speeding! If I hadn’t been my blood sugar likely wouldn’t be 19 now...

Strange, how other people simply deserve a ticket for speeding but you deserve to be ill on top of that ticket. Maybe we should make everybody who gets caught speeding ill on top of their ticket, as that's what they deserve, according to your logic.

 

[lovinglife]

Right get a grip here you're assuming a hell of a lot - can't help with your bloods but the speed awareness - hubby did one a few weeks ago - this is what happens

You elect to go on a course, they send you a letter, you go online and you can pick a course anywhere in the country on a day and time that suits you- doesn't have to be where you live or where you were caught speeding

Hubby was caught near Milton Keynes, we live in Cumbria- he did the course in Cheshire because that's where is most of the time with work. You get lots of choice you can do it anytime as long as you book it within 3 months of the offence,

It's half a day - 3 hours, you can eat, drink anything non alcoholic obviously, have your phone on silent, they have a break for coffee and those who smoke. It's a booklet with scenarios and they talk you through it then you fill in your answers the course leaders are not police and do not judge you - then it's all over - no points and cost hubby £100 - same as the fine,

My hubby was like Driving Miss Daisy for 3 weeks afterwards - his crime was doing 80 on the motorway- yes too fast and he deserved the ticket full stop

 

[KK123]

im a total loser of an idiot and got a speeding ticket (first in 20 years) on Monday for 35 in a 30.
I’m doing the awareness course but I’m so stressed about it and I cannot get my sugars down. My sugars always respond badly to stress. My worry is it could be weeks before the course and I’m not able to eat anything. My basals are all up but I’m still sat between 12-15 all the time. I’m super stressed that we are booked to go on holiday and that the course might be then - costing us several hundred quid to cancel let alone the disappointment of my kids because their mother is a dimwit. Also I don’t think you can eat or drink in these courses? So if I go low (I won’t be - I will be super high and thirsty) I can’t treat it?

And yes I know it’s my own fault and I deserve it and to feel like this before anyone points it out! But any suggestions other than don’t speed and keep upping the insulin?

Hi there,

Please don't worry about doing the course. Yes you were speeding and you have clearly accepted the responsibility for that as well as electing to go on the course which actually is not a stupid one, it's where you can reflect on what's happened not to mention avoid 3 points on your licence. There is no point people trying to minimise it all, you feel the way you feel and I for one think it is admirable of you not to blame anyone else. That doesn't make you a dimwit, it makes you the EXACT opposite, a human being who made a small mistake. I actually applaud you for your attitude to it and I think you need to 'forgive' yourself, calm down and look after yourself. It's a cliché I know but what's done is done, accept it and move on. YOUR wellbeing is important and that should be your number one priority, I have counted at least 6 insults by yourself to yourself and you do not deserve it. x

 

[ExtremelyW0rried]

At 22 now. Another night of no sleep.
This is hopeless. I’ve been up every hour the last three nights putting insulin in - not that I’m sleeping much anyway of course.

I don’t have any ketone strips but I feel very very thirsty and slightly sick now too.

 

[becca59]

At 22 now. Another night of no sleep.
This is hopeless. I’ve been up every hour the last three nights putting insulin in - not that I’m sleeping much anyway of course.

I don’t have any ketone strips but I feel very very thirsty and slightly sick now too.

I feel concerned you are not eating. Your body thinks you are starving it and the liver will be pushing out glucose. Not eating is not the answer. It is perpetuating those high numbers. It doesn’t have to be a huge meal, but perhaps have a drink of milk and bolus for it.

 

[DCUKMod]

@ExtremelyW0rried - You are whipping yourself into a frenzy it seems.

Many thousands and thousands of people have had speeding tickets. I had one, doing 35 in a 100 yard strip between 40mph zones. The 30mph was because of a part time schoiol crcossing, so I was banged to rights.

As others have said, you receive a letter offering a course or fine. I chose the course and booked it close to home, rather than the almsot 100 miles from home where I transgressed. There will be zero, I repeat, zero need to cancel your holiday.

I thought I'd be the only middle aged person in the room, with a bunch of boy-racers (girls can be racers too!), but I was wrong. Everyone in the room was a similar vintage, and all drove up in sensible, or smart cars. The boy/girl racers are never going slow enough to be offered a course, apparently.

The course wasn't partonising, and although I had passed my advanced driving test, I still learned a few things. It was a few hours, with a break for refreshments, delivered by a couple of folks (one retired police officer and one driving instructor).

I can't say I enjoyed it, but it was better than points on my license.

Please read @EllieM 's post and test for ketones. If you are still running high, please call 111 for guidance. If your glucose is highand you have ketones, consider going to A&E to be on the safe side.

Edited to remove inappropriate information. My error in remembering the OP's diabetes type.

 

[EllieM]

Right now, I would urge you to have somethng to eat. What you are doing now isn't helping you at all. The stress on your body of going into starvation mode will be making your body throw out as much glucose as it can to help you out.

If she's not eating then I'm guessing that she may be producing ketones too (?), a guaranteed way to feel ill and perpetuate stress levels. Is DKA a potential issue here? I wouldn't be worrying about any long term damage (most of us have brief periods of blood sugar disaster), but in the short term I would at least ring 111 for advice.

@ExtremelyW0rried , have you at least checked that your insulin and injection sites are all OK? I know stress is one reason for high blood sugar, but there are other possibilities as well.

 

[DCUKMod]

If she's not eating then I'm guessing that she may be producing ketones too (?), a guaranteed way to feel ill and perpetuate stress levels. Is DKA a potential issue here? I wouldn't be worrying about any long term damage (most of us have brief periods of blood sugar disaster), but in the short term I would at least ring 111 for advice.

@ExtremelyW0rried , have you at least checked that your insulin and injection sites are all OK? I know stress is one reason for high blood sugar, but there are other possibilities as well.

Ah. I had it in my mind that @extremelyworried was non-diabetic, but that isn't the case. I will adjust my former post, as it isn't wholly relevant. That's @EllieM for pointing out my ooopsee.

 

[ExtremelyW0rried]

If she's not eating then I'm guessing that she may be producing ketones too (?), a guaranteed way to feel ill and perpetuate stress levels. Is DKA a potential issue here? I wouldn't be worrying about any long term damage (most of us have brief periods of blood sugar disaster), but in the short term I would at least ring 111 for advice.

@ExtremelyW0rried , have you at least checked that your insulin and injection sites are all OK? I know stress is one reason for high blood sugar, but there are other possibilities as well.

Hi - yes I’ve checked my set and sites and the insulin - I’ve changed all of those things four times.
My blood sugar comes down if I manage to go to sleep - this is typical of what happens to me during times of high anxiety. My bloods have always reacted like this when I’m anxious, going through airport security can push me from 6 to high teens / low twenties. I don’t make that decision, it just happens. Job interviews, exams - all those sorts of things. Plus when I did my NQT year it was like this for about a term and it nearly finished me off.
This time though it was avoidable if I hadn’t been speeding so I’m angry with myself and slightly concerned that it could be like this until the course and I haven’t even had the dates yet. Most of me thinks it serves me right but I do feel so ill and I’ve two children to look after so it impacts them as well.
I’ve not been sleeping very well either so like last sugars dropped to 6 an hour or so after going to sleep but I woke up at 1ish and was awake for a few hours and then went they back up again.
Pretty sure on the day of the course they will be through the roof.

 

[EllieM]

Pretty sure on the day of the course they will be through the roof.

MY T1 mother did one of these after a driving oopsie (I can't remember what she did but it was the course or some points). As I remember, she didn't find it at all traumatic/stressful. and she was in her seventies at the time. Try not to worry, (though I know that's easier said than done), once you've done it you'll realise that it isn't a big deal.

 

[Mike d]

@ExtremelyW0rried ... You did 35 in a 30. Put some blessed perspective into what is a VERY trivial matter

 

[becca59]

@ExtremelyW0rried ... You did 35 in a 30. Put some blessed perspective into what is a VERY trivial matter

Anxiety and it’s consequences are not rational. So I feel this sort of comment is not helpful.

 

[ExtremelyW0rried]

Sugars back up again now so I won’t be able to eat today either it seems. Already at 19 and haven’t hadn’t any breakfast or anything. Basals all up but it’s just isn’t helping.
I might call the dsn on Monday although I feel too ashamed to admit what’s happened so maybe I won’t!

 

[Mike d]

Anxiety and it’s consequences are not rational. So I feel this sort of comment is not helpful.

I was referring to the SPEED ...

 

[Brunneria]

@extremelyworried

The speeding ticket is a simple matter of attending the course or getting points on your licence. You get to choose. 1000s are given out every day, and 1000s of people deal with the consequences every day.

Your anxiety is another matter, and seems to be far more of an issue than a few miles over the speeding limit.
I strongly suggest that you contact your health care team and press for some urgent appointments, medication, therapy, or whatever they assess you as needing to improve your anxiety. Not only is your anxiety affecting your own health it will also be affecting all those around you, including your children.

 

[Pinkorchid]

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Because i was speeding! If I hadn’t been my blood sugar likely wouldn’t be 19 now...

Doesn't everyone get a speeding ticket at some time I know members of my family have and like you just been a bit over the speed limit. Stop beating yourself up about it is not worth the stress you are putting yourself and your family through Hundreds of people get speeding tickets every day and they pay the fine or do the course and move on it is just not worth stressing or worrying about If you choose to do the course then as someone else said you pick the place and time that you want to go so it will not affect your holiday I do think though because you are stressing out far to much over it that you need to see your doctor to help you to sort yourself out with eating and your insulin

 

[Patrick66]

im a total loser of an idiot and got a speeding ticket (first in 20 years) on Monday for 35 in a 30.
I’m doing the awareness course but I’m so stressed about it and I cannot get my sugars down. My sugars always respond badly to stress. My worry is it could be weeks before the course and I’m not able to eat anything. My basals are all up but I’m still sat between 12-15 all the time. I’m super stressed that we are booked to go on holiday and that the course might be then - costing us several hundred quid to cancel let alone the disappointment of my kids because their mother is a dimwit. Also I don’t think you can eat or drink in these courses? So if I go low (I won’t be - I will be super high and thirsty) I can’t treat it?

And yes I know it’s my own fault and I deserve it and to feel like this before anyone points it out! But any suggestions other than don’t speed and keep upping the insulin?

Right, let’s start off by saying you are not a “total loser of an idiot”!

You made a mistake. That’s it, plain and simple. You weren’t trying to be clever or showing off. It happened and you can’t turn the clock back.

Stress has a horrid effect on blood sugar but worrying about when it might be and if it will interfere with your holiday is, until you know for certain, just adding to it. I know how hard it is but try and relax. Distract yourself and don’t let it dominate your life. My partner was given a choice of dates and times because they had to find enough people to make it feasible to run the awareness course and when the dates came through I think they offered her morning or afternoon across 4 or 5 dates across a month, so, they might do that for you.

As for your holiday, I think it would be very unreasonable to expect you to cancel a family holiday and disappoint your children. Most guidance I have read says you can contact the police to rearrange up to the day before the course is due so I can’t envisage an issue.

 

[ExtremelyW0rried]

28 now.

 

[lucylocket61]

28 now.

Are you now underweight, as you appear to have been starving yourself for some time? Perhaps you could speak to your GP about some help, of various sorts, with your anxiety? Starving yourself will have the same effect as anorexia on your body.