• Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.
  • We seem to be having technical difficulties with new user accounts. If you are trying to register please check your Spam or Junk folder for your confirmation email. If you still haven't received a confirmation email, please reach out to our support inbox: support.forum@diabetes.org.uk

High blood sugars

Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Munjeeta

Munjeeta

Well-Known Member
Relationship to Diabetes
Type 1
I have been trying very hard to get my blood sugars within range recently... I have had pretty good levels over the weekend but then this morning woke up with a blood sugar of 24, despite my best efforts! Very frustrating!! But... It really had an effect on me and I noticed it even more because of better recent control. I felt exhausted just after waking up, I've been tearful all day so far, my contact lenses felt gritty when I put them in, and I very nearly sparked off an unprovoked (and very rational 😛) argument with my boyfriend (who lives 200 miles away) because I felt he just didn't get it!! It's made me so much more aware of just how badly high blood sugars affect me and have been affecting me. Not that every bad mood or irrational argument is down to my sugar levels... 🙄

How do high blood sugars affect other people? I'd be interested to know.
 
I get that too, Munjeeta. My sister has taken to asking me to check my BG when we argue, it is the new 'time of the month'! So now I have two excuses for being grumpy!

Seriously, it does make me feel bad. I had a really bad time a while back when my BGs were up and down and my sister had a load of job stress and we fought like cats and dogs. Sometimes it is hard to work out if the stress of the argument has affected my blood sugars, or if my blood sugars have made me cause an argument. I also find that it is sometimes the swinging to and fro that makes me feel bad as much as highs or lows.
 
I've never noticed any correlation between uncomfortable contact lenses and high blood sugars. I have worn hard gas permeable contact lenses for far longer (about 30 years) than I've had diabetes (13 years). Some people find HGPCLs more uncomfortable than soft lenses, but I find them cheaper and easy, so have stuck with them.
When my partner is away, he's either in the Southern Hemisphere and not on the phone (for 6 weeks to 5 months each northern winter) or away for shorter adventure races, but not allowed to use phone either. But when he's home, we're together, so that's a bit different to your situation.
I reckon it boils down to changing / controlling the things you can change / control and recognising that some things are outsode your control, so no point worrying about them, however frustrating!
 
My main problem with high blood sugars is the tiredness that they bring plus the effects on the bladder especially at night so my sleep is broken up. Irritability is then something I really have to watch for. I'm more argumentative and irritable though when my blood sugar is low - add that to going hypo in a supermarket and I have to count to well over 100 before I dare open my mouth! Like Lizzie, though, it is the swings between the two that have the worst effect and so I've learned that I really do have to manage what I eat and when carefully to keep on an even keel and I don't suffer the extreme ranges that some of the Type 1s on here get so consider myself quite fortunate
 
I have a theory that my eyes got dry when I was high and that made my lenses uncomfortable. Haven't been high enough since I've been testing to check this theory though, but my lenses haven't been uncomfortable since my blood sugar has been under better control, so who knows.

I get very tired, drained and grumpy when I'm high, and I think I'm much calmer and better tempered now things are mostly under control. I think I can blame a lot of arguments with my husband on high blood sugar!
 
I get tired and have a headache when my blood sugars are high, and when they get low i get dizzy, agitated, irrational and my best friend noticed that i rub my head a lot when i am low, i have no idea why.
 
im exactly the same as u squidge
 
I've been getting serious headaches recently, never normally get them, next time I do I'll test myself.

Thanks guys/gals
 
I find that I feel sleepy when I'm high and don't really have any energy to do anything. I haven't noticed any corrolation between high blood sugars and arguing with my other half.
 
Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Back
Top