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Have you ever experienced elevated body temperatures as a side effect of high blood glucose levels?
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Not to my knowledge
I sweat like a damn in July in the sun.
That’s a pig. In July. Lol
I don’t know! Taking my temperature is the last thing on my mind if my blood glucose levels are high.
I get cold when I am low, especially in cold weather! Hot and Cold can affect blood sugars when they rise out of range or fall out of range. Immediate corrections help.
No, but I am drenched in sweat if my sugar goes especially low. Luckily with a cgm I don’t believe that has ever happened.
I don’t notice a temp change with high blood sugars but when I am very low I get extremely hot and then as the glucose level rises, I often get so cold I shake. I usually need a heating pad to recover my temp after those kind of lows.
I really don’t know–I have never considered this before today!
I don’t know. I’ve never noticed.
Yes, but only when my bg level is past 500 on my meter and that fortunately very rarely happens.
I start feeling hot at about 160. If it goes up to 200, then I don’t feel hot anymore.
said “no” but the real answer should be “I don’t know.”
I said “other” because I’m not sure if the question refers just to a hot feeling or actually to a fever. My face feels hot if my sugar is high past 250 for a long period of time, but with the CGM that rarely happens any longer.
I have experienced elevated body temp with a very low blood sugar however@
My body temperature doesn’t actually increase on a thermometer, however I do feel really hot, nauseous and lethargic when blood glucose is high.
I have never noticed feeling hot for a high level. Like multiple others, I will break out into a sweat for too low. That’s only if I dip below 50 though, so, luckily, hardly ever.
I’m not sure. Using a pump & CGM I rarely get very high numbers anymore. I haven’t noticed feeling hotter on the rare occasions it does get over 180-200.
Just the opposite is true with me. If I’m fighting off an infection or running a fever, my blood sugars tend to get HIGH.
I don’t know because I have never checked.
To my knowledge, not as a direct side effect of elevated BG levels. However, if I am sick with a flu or cold virus, or perhaps due to a systemic infection of some sort my temp may or may not elevate due to the inflammatory effect of my body fighting off a foreign invader.
Like others have mentioned, my internal body temp does a roller coaster swing from perfuse sweating to bone chill cold with shivers during and after a severe episode of hypoglycemia. It never occurred to me to take a body temperature in the aftermath of rebounding from low to high.
Like others, when low I get warm. This past couple of years what I have noticed with highs are extreme indigestion. A couple of times I have worried about heart attack but there is only discomfort around my throat, like I need to burp but it won’t come out. Then, as my sugar gets back under control, it goes away. I definitely feel lousy when my sugar goes high.
This is a chicken and egg question (although evolutionarily it is clear that the egg came first — but this is just a figure of speach). Whenever someone is sick enough to have a fever (or even is asymptomatic while their immune system fights a virus about which one isn’t even aware), cortisone levels increase causing increased insulin resistance and driving blood sugar higher. Although I know this to be a medical fact (and consistent with experience), how would one prove in any particular case that the fever “caused” the high blood sugar, rather than vice versa, especially when insulin sensitivity can change so capriciously anyway?
When my levels are low I break out in a sweat. When high I have a pain in left arm until levels start coming down.
I said “other” because I’ve never thought to check my temperature when my blood sugar’s high. I do often feel warm or get sweaty when my blood sugar’s either high or low, though. And I think I have a harder time cooling down and catching my breath when my blood sugar’s high.
I chose other because I don’t know.
My temperature often feels off, but I don’t check it and it is most always normal at hospital.
I don’t know. I might just start documenting this and see.
Not from highs but I have from extreme lows.