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Stress

Unfortunately it can also lower blood sugars.

Normal stress always raises my blood sugar but severe stress (when my mother died) gave me hypos.
 
It can really mess the body and the mind up, severe worry and stress gives me autoimmune conditions as well.
 
It is a real ****** indeed that diabetes is one of those conditions that stress really impacts, and not in a good way. My own feeling is stress is a fact of life - so the key is to manage it better, rather than imagining life without it. (Sigh. Wouldn't that be nice?) (And alas, I do waste time imagining life without it!) It's about the ticker-health really - keeping cardio vascular events and strokes at bay. I've been going through a particularly stressful period lately, and thinking it through, in relation to my diabetes-heart thing. Walking has been good right from the diabetes-diagnosis start for me. Getting out in nature and all that. Breathe in the air. Look at the leaves - that kind of thing. Now I am thinking meditation. As in kick-starting it again.

Also - watching a good comedy on the box or at the movies! Laughing is very good for lowering stress. And common garden variety socialising - hanging out with friends. My BG levels get wonderfully low (well - comparatively!) after i do that a while.
 
Stress messes up my Bg levels like nothing else. Few years back i found out i have a slow digestive process and got a scuffed stomach (don't know how to translate it better) as the result of stress. Now i get aches like nothing else in the stomach region, first time i had it i thought i had a collapsed lung or bruised a rib or something. Now during a stressy period i get it often and my bg's are higher than usual.
 
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