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pedro606

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2 hours after dinner last night my reading was 6.2 I then sat down to watch my team Arsenal play Roma on the box. I had a couple of cups of tea during the game. As an avid Arsenal fan it became very very tense with a penalty shoot-out to decide the winner- which Arsenal won- thankfully. I felt nervous during the shoot out (only a real football fan would understand!). In fact I felt quite exhausted after it all. My wife cannot understand either!

I was going to go straight to bed but I thought I would just check my BS as a matter of interest. I was shocked to find it had shot up to 7.6!

Can anyone offer any reason as to why this should have happened. I didn't have anything further to eat either.

Confused,

Pete :cry:
 
Hi,

Stress is a common factor in raising bg levels. If it really was a tense, nailbiting match, there is every possibility that this was the cause, although if you ate something slightly higher in carbs than normal earlier on and had it with a fair amount of fat, this could have delayed a rise in your bg levels until later on, hence the unexpected result.

Caitycakes x
 
what did u eat for tea?
if it wasnt that then it will have been the stress as stress does play a big part in glucose levels in some of us :D
 
I have noticed this too. Scary movies, fairgrounds, skiing. Adrenaline raises your blood sugar and raised cortisol from stress makes you more insulin resistant.
 
I had a curry for tea with cauliflower rice. I have had that meal a few times and two hours later it is normally 6.2ish. So it must be the excitement that is causing it. Interesting that as it is something difficult to avoid. Well I could turn the TV off etc but Hey , we have to live a little!!

Thanks very much for helping to clear that up as it was something I never realised raises blood sugar.

The problem is no that we have an FA Cup semi-final hopefully coming up soon at Wembley against Chelski!

Also on a more serious note- my son is out in Afghanistan I am thinking of that a lot as well- I wonder if that helps the sugars to rise.

Pete
 
Sorry to intrude but your topic made me think of another question :wink:
Do these "spikes" with stress also happen in non-diabetics or is it that they happen, but the body naturally compensates to keep levels within the Norm ??

Hope your son is ok :)
 
If you are stressed then you get the 'fight or flight' response.Your body gets ready for action so yes BG levels would go up but in a non diabetic(or should that be a person without diabetes?) the natural insulin would soon compensate.
 
That was a good question Pip. Sue was probably right. taking it a step further and not really wanting to complicate things-- what about the adrenalin rush(nervous engery)that we can all have at times or is that what causes the stress in the first place?

Pete
 
The blood circulation only contains around 5g glucose at any one time: there's a lot of activity going on in the background shuffling glucose generated from your food into store and shuffling glucose back out of store to be used.

It doesn't take much of a mismatch between these two competing systems to double your BG or worse. A lot of factors are involved in mediating the system.

Theoretically an adrenalin response in normies will kick off a glucose dump but this will also be covered by an insulin dump which is usually missing in diabetics.
 
pedro606 said:
That was a good question Pip. Sue was probably right. taking it a step further and not really wanting to complicate things-- what about the adrenalin rush(nervous engery)that we can all have at times or is that what causes the stress in the first place?

Pete
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The release of adrenaline causes the system to gear up ,pulse goes up etc and this is what you feel as stress.
 
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