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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KathyCP" data-source="post: 1581376" data-attributes="member: 424527"><p>HI, i've just had a pretty graphic illustration of what stress can do to my bg levels - i only test a couple of times during the day twice a week, but on those days i always do it first thing when i wake up.  over the last year or so, my morning bg has usually been 5.5mmol or less, unless i'm not very well, when it can go up a bit higher. last sun morning it was 5.2mmol, but on wed morning it was 6.2mmol - i've not been ill and i didn't eat anything unusual over the intervening days.  however, i had a couple of really stressful days (work-related)  between sun and wed; since then, things have calmed down again, and this morning my waking bg was back down to 4.7mmol.  i remember my gp telling me when i was diagnosed with t2 (with a fasting bg of 19mmol) that stress doesn't have any major impact on bg levels - but at that time i did wonder, as i'd spent probably about 5 years working in constantly stressful situations, regular 15 hour days with tight deadlines, etc. - one of the things i did after diagnosis was to address my work-life balance, which is now much better than it used to be, and in fact, early this week was one of the first times that i found myself in that situation again. i know it's only a very small blip, and only backed up with a couple of readings, but it does make we wonder whether i should aim to be much more mindful about how stressed i'm getting.  anyone else got any experience/ideas on this front?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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