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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  When I am low I feel anxious, partly due to the adrenaline response and partly due to the jarring sound of the alert.
- 6 hours, 54 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Very hard question to answer precisely. For the most part, i.e. most of the time, not at all. However, there is a very, very big “but.” And that is at a certain low level (60? 50?) where that irascible personality trait irritability kicks in. It’s not pleasant and neither am I. 🥶
- 7 hours, 21 minutes ago
  
  sweetcharlie likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  We need to have replicating living Beta cells reintroduced into our bodies ... science hasn't some up with the solution yet ... but they are working on it. In the meantime, I am grateful for the science that identified insulin as an important life sustaining hormone 100 years ago, and for the science of making various the synthetic and recombinant insulin formulas that have kept so many of us alive for the past 100 + years ... The drug companies don't make all that much money off of us ... it's the greed of PBMs in the health insurance industry that set high prices to suck up the profits.
- 7 hours, 22 minutes ago
  
  sweetcharlie likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  I resent even having T1 diabetes and having to deal with it, and I think they could find a cure for it, but big pharma makes too much $$ off of us to be really try to find a cure.
- 7 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  sweetcharlie likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Good point! Sometimes hard to tell if the blood sugar levels physiologically causing mood changes or just the stress and burden of trying to manage T1D non-stop. Both valid. I was having a persistent high the other day and thought with frustration how I'd been doing this for 27 years and still sometimes suck at it. With T1D, practice does not make perfect. It's endless guessing and troubleshooting.
- 7 hours, 26 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Exceptionally well worded. In junior high algebra, teachers used to admonish us, “Don’t try to solve 3 unknown variables with 2 equations.” Welcome to T1D [expletive deleted] where the variables vary considerably and the constants are only constant when they wanna be. 🤺
- 7 hours, 30 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Yesterday was a day when it took FOREVER to get my supper high down. 274. Totally frustrating!!! I had changed to a new set that am too which should have had the "low" effect going on for me. I am terrified of lows and when I get below 80 I just want to withdraw from everything and everybody until my control returns. Didn't have that problem before getting the CGM. The alarms and arrows cause some anxiety at times.
- 9 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  It really depends on multiple other factors. How long has it been high or I can't figure out why. Also, it depends on if I've had multiple lows in a short period of time.
- 9 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  It used th be worse in the days of NPH and Regular insulin. I would get depressed around 2:30pm every day.
- 10 hours, 55 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Lows have a definite impact. After 68 years playing this game, I now need to rely on what the CGM tells me because I can't tell anymore. If something I've read/heard brings tears, I now know to check my bg. My CGM alerts are on vibrate because they annoy me, scare our cat and create a nuisance when I'm in public . Highs, on the other hand, are very frustrating. If possible, an injection of 1.5 - 2 u by syringe usually brings me into range faster than the pump.
- 11 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Lows have a definite impact. After 68 years playing this game, I now need to rely on what the CGM tells me because I can't tell anymore. If something I've read/heard brings tears, I now know to check my bg. My CGM alerts are on vibrate because they annoy me, scare our cat and create a nuisance when I'm in public . Highs, on the other hand, are very frustrating. If possible, an injection of 1.5 - 2 u by syringe usually brings me into range faster than the pump.
- 11 hours, 49 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Cheryl, please don't give up on a cure! I work with scientists, some who have spent decades and some their entire careers trying to cure this disease. There are good people working on it.
- 12 hours, 8 minutes ago
  
  ConnieT1D62 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Good point! Sometimes hard to tell if the blood sugar levels physiologically causing mood changes or just the stress and burden of trying to manage T1D non-stop. Both valid. I was having a persistent high the other day and thought with frustration how I'd been doing this for 27 years and still sometimes suck at it. With T1D, practice does not make perfect. It's endless guessing and troubleshooting.
- 12 hours, 8 minutes ago
  
  ConnieT1D62 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Exceptionally well worded. In junior high algebra, teachers used to admonish us, “Don’t try to solve 3 unknown variables with 2 equations.” Welcome to T1D [expletive deleted] where the variables vary considerably and the constants are only constant when they wanna be. 🤺
- 12 hours, 9 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  I'd be interested to find out the difference in answers here between highs and lows. I would have said very much or moderately for lows for sure. They affect me with actual physical changes. Feeling floaty/tipsy, tingles in my hands and a tendency to snap more easily if someone asks me a question that I take the wrong way. Highs (which itself should be quantified - for me from a physical standpoint, I'd consider anything over 200 a high). These don't affect me physically, so I might have said not at all. But those occasional steady highs of 160 that won't go down - especially if I'm not eating anything to cause them - will make me anxious and grumpy. But that's an emotional response vs. physical to this annoying disease that sometimes doesn't follow the same set of rules from day to day. No food, but I'm having a bad day at work? T1 decides to make it even more challenging by spiking my blood sugar and keeping it up no matter what I try to do. Often I end up doing too much insulin to compensate, (especially if it creeps up even higher an hour after I've done the correction). And then I've done too much and I'm rollercoastering for the rest of the day and feeling like a failure for not being able to manage the disease...which of course the docs all claim is easy peasey based on carbs and nothing else. So physical effect of a high, not really - emotional effect, yes. especially if it's a puzzler.
- 12 hours, 12 minutes ago
  
  ConnieT1D62 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  My only reaction is feeling very irritable when I'm going low. Otherwise I have no other emotional changes when high or low.
- 12 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  Mick Martin likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Lows have a definite impact. After 68 years playing this game, I now need to rely on what the CGM tells me because I can't tell anymore. If something I've read/heard brings tears, I now know to check my bg. My CGM alerts are on vibrate because they annoy me, scare our cat and create a nuisance when I'm in public . Highs, on the other hand, are very frustrating. If possible, an injection of 1.5 - 2 u by syringe usually brings me into range faster than the pump.
- 12 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  Mick Martin likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  I don't think there is a physical connection of low BG to mood, etc for me. It is psychological. I don't feel good about myself or my management.
- 12 hours, 40 minutes ago
  
  Hark87 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  I said a little bit, but that's my opinion. My husband might have had a different answer 🤣
- 12 hours, 40 minutes ago
  
  Hark87 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Lows have a definite impact. After 68 years playing this game, I now need to rely on what the CGM tells me because I can't tell anymore. If something I've read/heard brings tears, I now know to check my bg. My CGM alerts are on vibrate because they annoy me, scare our cat and create a nuisance when I'm in public . Highs, on the other hand, are very frustrating. If possible, an injection of 1.5 - 2 u by syringe usually brings me into range faster than the pump.
- 12 hours, 40 minutes ago
  
  Hark87 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  I am highly sensitive to my blood sugar levels so like you I know my sugar is going low before my CGM alerts me because I get anxious about anything and everything or I can’t read.
- 12 hours, 41 minutes ago
  
  Hark87 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  When my blood sugar is low my anxiety is through the roof.
- 12 hours, 56 minutes ago
  
  KarenM6 likes your comment at
  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Amen to that! I find myself irritated when my BG won’t come down after an hour, so I do the same thing, with the same result, You’d think after 60 years of this, I;d be more ‘adult’ in my management, but not so. Still beating up on myself when bugs aren’t in range. Xx many variables. Sometimes I just want to cash in my chips…..
- 12 hours, 56 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  Good point! Sometimes hard to tell if the blood sugar levels physiologically causing mood changes or just the stress and burden of trying to manage T1D non-stop. Both valid. I was having a persistent high the other day and thought with frustration how I'd been doing this for 27 years and still sometimes suck at it. With T1D, practice does not make perfect. It's endless guessing and troubleshooting.
- 12 hours, 57 minutes ago
  
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  How much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (For example, being more likely to cry or feel sad when low, feeling irritable when glucose levels are high, etc.)
  I'd be interested to find out the difference in answers here between highs and lows. I would have said very much or moderately for lows for sure. They affect me with actual physical changes. Feeling floaty/tipsy, tingles in my hands and a tendency to snap more easily if someone asks me a question that I take the wrong way. Highs (which itself should be quantified - for me from a physical standpoint, I'd consider anything over 200 a high). These don't affect me physically, so I might have said not at all. But those occasional steady highs of 160 that won't go down - especially if I'm not eating anything to cause them - will make me anxious and grumpy. But that's an emotional response vs. physical to this annoying disease that sometimes doesn't follow the same set of rules from day to day. No food, but I'm having a bad day at work? T1 decides to make it even more challenging by spiking my blood sugar and keeping it up no matter what I try to do. Often I end up doing too much insulin to compensate, (especially if it creeps up even higher an hour after I've done the correction). And then I've done too much and I'm rollercoastering for the rest of the day and feeling like a failure for not being able to manage the disease...which of course the docs all claim is easy peasey based on carbs and nothing else. So physical effect of a high, not really - emotional effect, yes. especially if it's a puzzler.
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