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Strange BSL levels

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plantae

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Tonight (I've been awake all night, again) my BSLs have been in the high 7's, low 8's (7.8 - 8.1), confirmed by finger prick, all night with no apparent explanation. At 4:00AM I decided to give up on sleep and made myself two coffees (with a dash of milk in each, no sugar) and drank them before checking BSL again. My BSL is now 5.6 (confirmed with finger prick) where it roughly is at this time of the morning most days. Can coffee lower blood sugars and if it can by that much? Alternatively could my momentous effort of boiling the kettle and stirring the coffee have burnt off that much glucose? Or is this all just a coincidence? (Edit: I did not have insulin with my coffee... won't be having that for another hour when I have breakfast)
 
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BS (or bg) can be affected by many other things that food. Somewhere there's a list of about 40
Sleep, quality and quantity (and lack of)
Stress
Illness
Medications
Temperature
Exercise, intensity and duration (and lack of)
Etc etc
Food is the major contributor, but even on a fully fasting day mine can vary 3 or 4. On one particularly stressful day it went into double figures on no food.

I've learnt to settle or "good enough" and not worry about individual readings (as long as they aren't because I've eaten a cake!l)

Your giving up worrying about not sleep may have relaxed your bg, or it may have been the drink, or the time of day. More likely a combination of all 3.
 
This is the example of a day where I had low carb lunch at 12 noon, then nothing else all day. Got called to a family emergency and bg rose as situation escalated and didn't go down until I got home again at 4:00 am. I'd hadnothing but water
 

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plantae said:
Yes, well I've very little sleep the last few days. That probably explains it!
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Without sleep your body will be needing energy, so it's getting it from your stores and transporting in the blood...doing what 8ts supposed to!

(But with the proviso to still keep an eye on numbers as your body doesn't seem to have read the manual some days. Keep an eye on them, but don't sweat the small changes)
 
Antje77 said:
Sounds pretty stable to me, especially considering you've just been hospitalised with a serious pancreatis attack which must have put your whole body out of whack.
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Yeah they're stable. Just a little bit higher overnight than usual. Not high enough for me to worry, just curious. Yeah my body is out of whack for sure
 
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