Type 2 Can Lack Of Sleep Increase Blood Sugars

[woollygal]

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?

 

[Goonergal]

Hi @Cana

Lack of sleep, or disturbed sleep can definitely push blood sugars up, but what you describe could also be dawn phenomenon.

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-glucose/dawn-phenomenon.html

 

[PatsyB]

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

 

[Deleted Account]

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.

 

[woollygal]

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]

So anything and everything can muck it up?

Generally speaking, yes, but carbs are the worst of the muckers up.

 

[Guzzler]

Generally speaking, yes, but carbs are the worst of the muckers up.

Shouldn't that be mucker uppers?

 

[briped]

Shouldn't that be mucker uppers?

I even mucked that up