Fatigue and BG control

[ElyDave]

This is a particularly high stress time of the year for me at work with a government deadline of the 31st March to approve emissions data for about 45 oil/gas rigs and processing sites. As always the clients never fulfill their promis to get stuff to us nice and early apart from a few more organised clients.

Teh result is high stress, high workloads and serious fatigue.

last week for example I was getting up at 5:30 to go for a run, breakfast, half an hours work, go to site to do another job, leave there about 6-6:30pm, dinner, then work til midnight again.

I've noticed my levels creeping up over the last few weeks with a 7.4 this morning, which is unheard of for me. Question is, could it be fatigue related, or an impending end to the honeymoon period?

I also found out thsi week that I can't drink Adnams Broadside anymore, went from 5.7 pre dinner, to 7.7 post dinner OK, but then drank a bottle of Broadside while doing more work - 9.7, same thing Friday night.

 

[noblehead]

Difficult to say, certainly stress can play havoc with bg levels.

 

[mrman]

For me, I definatley notice higher levels more with fatigue than stress. Having a good nights sleep and feeling rested certainly gives me better readings.

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[zicksi101]

Have definitely noticed increased BGs when stressed and not sleeping as much as normal.

A good example would have been the final 4 weeks before my dissertation deadline in final year Uni... in that 4 weeks I got at most 4 hours sleep a day, often less. My BGs really started to shoot up more than I was expecting, in fact the necessary insulin increases to counter that meant I put on a stone.

In the end the result was worth it, but yes fatigue and stress under those circumstances really does seem to make high BGs more likely.

 

[borofergie]

Good work on getting up early to run though. I usually run in the evenings, because (if I can get the buzz going), it completely relaxes me and disengages me from work.

Feel your pain buddy.

 

[mopsy21]

Hi, I had a busy time in the first half of March - not work-rlated but taking part in music competitions, which was reasonably stressful. Increased activity with practice and so on. Levels are usually 5 - 7, but increased to 6 - 8 with the odd 9 during the three weeks. After the last event at the weekend, the levels immediately came down, so I put the changes down to the stress and tiredness. Actually, they came down a little too low for comfort, but that's diabetes! Shame about the effect of the beer though.. Best wishes.

Diagnosed T1 18 months ago.