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Highs and nightmares.

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Amberzak

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As usual, diabetes doesn't play fair. Some nights I'm steady, others my sugars start to raise. Even when I've done the exact same thing.

One pattern I did notice is that when they are higher (about 12 according to my libre) i seem to have bad dreams. I can't work out if the dreams are caused by the highs or the highs are caused by the dreams. I am suseptable to stress.

Anyone else have anything like this?
 
Sounds familiar; anything over about 8-10 and I get restless broken sleep, nightmares and occasionally a bit of sleep walking. I'm pretty sure that I can account for these highs based on what I have eaten earlier in the day, so for me at least it seems that the hypers prompt the bad dreams.
 
I have cracking nightmares if I have a hypo followed by a rebound, quite quite vivid. I'm guessing that's the adrenalin though rather than the blood sugar. I suppose with the libre you can see if it's a steady rise rather than a rebound? Also with everything you've been dealing with the nightmares could be anxiety related in which case anxiety also prompts high blood sugar so it's impossible to tell I suppose (sorry not dead helpful!)
 
Similar to what @KookyCat said, I also tend to have vivid dreams when my BG is low rather than high.
If I spend a whole night with high BG, I tend to have a fitful, restless sleep, but at least I don't get nightmares.
 
Maybe it's the stress of the nightmares that causes the high sugars then. I always had nightmares since before I was diabetic. As a child I used to have night terrors.
 
Definitely relate to this. With me it's definitely that I have high sugar levels and then the nightmares. I had one last night that was terribly vivid I thought I was being killed in the dream but woke up and it felt like my heart was going rather slow not panicky yet the dream was frightening. I also have schizophrenia which makes my dreams vivid aswell. I wreckon my sugar level was 26. I'm using levemir but it's not working for me. Whatever my level is before I do my levemir at night it always rises 7 blood sugar readings more and continues to rise. Then towards around 4 or 5 of clock in the morning it starts dropping down to a better level in the morning. I understand that anxiety about the nightmare can push blood sugar up further with the stress hormone but I definitely can say when my sugar is too high I have nightmares. Also when I have a hypo my dreams tell me i am low and sometimes if I just drop quickly but not hypo it gives me nightmares aswell. When my sugar levels are more stable which is hardly ever I don't remember my dreams much as if they weren't very interesting .
 
Amberzak might not reply as she has not been seen for nearly 2years.
 
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