Type 2 Can Lack Of Sleep Increase Blood Sugars

woollygal

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Morning
So last night before I went to bed at 9.30 I was a 10 something.
Woke up at 1.15 ish and brain was whizzing so out of interest did a test, it was 6.8.
Took me a while (probably till 2.30-3) to get back to sleep.
Just did my wake up test at 5.50am and my sugars have increased to 8.0.
But I haven’t eaten or drank anything.
Is it lack of sleep that has increased my sugars or likely something else?
 
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PatsyB

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never will understand this Diabetes it does just what it likes no matter how we try to control it but eventually one hopes we will master it :p
 
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There are many things which affect our BG: food (carbs, protein, fat ... in different ways), alcohol, illness, stress, lack of sleep, exercise, time of day/month/year, drugs, ...
And, yes, lack of sleep ... although this is often caused by one of the other things I mentioned.
 
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woollygal

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Ha, so basically blood sugar will do what it wants, when it wants regardless of what it should do?
So anything and everything can muck it up?
 

briped

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So anything and everything can muck it up?
Generally speaking, yes, but carbs are the worst of the muckers up.