Does getting mad or being stressed cause blood sugars to rise?

Question

why?

Answer 1

Stress results when something causes your body to behave as if it were under attack. Sources of stress can be physical, like injury or illness. Or they can be mental, like problems in your marriage, job, health, or finances.

When stress occurs, the body prepares to take action. This preparation is called the fight-or-flight response. In the fight-or-flight response, levels of many hormones shoot up. Their net effect is to make a lot of stored energy - glucose and fat - available to cells. These cells are then primed to help the body get away from danger.

In people who have diabetes, the fight-or-flight response does not work well. Insulin is not always able to let the extra energy into the cells, so glucose piles up in the blood.

Many sources of stress are not short-term threats. For example, it can take many months to recover from surgery. Stress hormones that are designed to deal with short-term danger stay turned on for a long time. As a result, long-term stress can cause long-term high blood glucose levels.

Many long-term sources of stress are mental. Your mind sometimes reacts to a nondangerous event as if it were a real threat. Like physical stress, mental stress can be short term - from taking a test to getting stuck in a traffic jam. It can also be long term: from working for a demanding boss to taking care of an aging parent. In mental stress, the body pumps out hormones to no avail. Neither fighting nor fleeing is any help when the "enemy" is your own mind.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

yes, stress does cause your sugars to rise. Why, I am not sure. I guess like being sick causes sugars to rise. It is stress on the body. Menstrual cycles can cause a spike in the blood sugars also.

Answer 4

Yes. Acute emotional or physical stress situations cause the blood glucose level to rise.

(by the way, physical stress here means things like a heart attack, CVA or convulsions, and not just any stress you put on the body).

Answer 5

Yes blood sugar will rise with anything that causes more adrenaline output or infection of course.

Answer 6

yes yes yes it does.....and not just physical stress but mental stress too, Im not sure why even though Ive been diabetic for 19 years you would think Id have looked into this by now all I know for sure is that it does, when I stress heavilly my sugars go thru the roof!!! in fact my doc has me on Paxil now to help lower my sugars as Im going thru some very stressing times right now

Answer 7

i suppose because the fear fright or flight mechanism triggers the adrenals to secrete adrenaline which turn increases insulin secretion to prepare the body for action along wiht dilating the blood vessels and redirecting blood flow to th e muscles
although on first thought i would have said that the increased brain activity would have burned up extra sugar-any way you need to look at anger management

Answer 8

sure does, well with stress it deffiently does anyway im not sure why but yeh i've noticed that when im really stressed out my levels will tend to be higher than normal. if ur going thro stressful times check ur levels more often and adjust ur insulin to what you need

Answer 9

stress, illnesses, infections, and viruses can cause sugars to escalate. try to relax, exercise and watch your diet.

Answer 10

Check out these sites for more information regarding Diabetes:

http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/faq/basics.htm

http://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/control/principles.htm