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      I providee an answer of low BG. But with that said, it is usually a false alarm (compression low from Dexcom sensor) With the stable bedtime BG and a TSlim X2 pump using CIQ and Sleep Mode, I consistently sleep between about 85 and 110 every night. The key to this is going to bed with a stable BG (85-110) and not having any IOB.
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      The same as Carrolyn Barloco. I often get messages in the middle of the night that my blood glucose level was either high or low 2, 3, or 4 hours ago. This is a completely useless piece of information, and absolutely NO REASON to wake me up. This is nothing but an ANNOYING alert. Tandem and Medtronic, if you're listening, please remove this function from your pumps.
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      I wake up with physical effects of lows. Odd thing is that if I am dreaming, I will often have the same effects within my dream. Like I will be on a plane to some exotic location and start searching for snacks! Does this happen to anyone else?
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    On a scale of 1-5, how much do you think your blood glucose levels impact your overall mood? (1 = the least impact, 5 = the most impact)

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    31 Comments

    1. RegMunro

      Because my sugar is now pretty well controlled I have to refer to the past. Running too low caused me to investigate whether I was demented! It was awful, but CGM has made a massive difference as I now know when I’m running too low

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    2. Britni

      Most often low or high blood sugars affect my sleep and that’s what affects my overall mood. But I am more likely to be irritable when my blood sugar’s out of range (as I’m sure anyone is when they’re feeling under the weather) and when it’s severely low I’m prone to crying for no apparent reason.

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      1. Patricia Dalrymple

        The crying happens occasionally to me as well if I am low. Sometimes I get lovey-dovey and my husband just looks at me and says: go eat something ☺️

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    3. lis be

      is stress a mood?

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      1. Wanacure

        lis be, it is to me and so is feeling of persistent anxiety.

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    4. Joan Fray

      I’m not really sure. My bg levels don’t vary a great deal for any length of time. Of course, in the old days with out bg monitors, I remember getting pretty sluggish when i went really high.

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    5. KCR

      I feel like we’ve all been here: cranky, grumpy, irritable when high; anxious, scared, edgy when low; and just getting on with our lives when in range (hopefully in a mindful and alert way). For me, dealing with lifelong depression, I find blood sugar levels can exacerbate my mood in other ways.

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    6. Kathy Morison

      The aspect of my blood glucose levels that caused me mood changes is the challenge I have every day in getting my insulin to absorb. It makes me so mad some days when doing all the right preventive measures, I cant control my body’s response.

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    7. connie ker

      I live alone so my cgm tells me “go eat something” or get take a correction. The day I tried to give up coffee, I couldn’t get along with myself! Life is filled with highs and lows, especially when a T1D. It can be your mood, your sugars, blood pressure, bank account, your family news, but loss of life of loved one or even watching the Ukranian apocalypse makes me SAD with tears. My faith promises better time ahead.

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    8. Lawrence S.

      I’m not sure how to answer this one. I answered “3”, but it may be higher. It probably would be better to ask my wife. Sometimes, I feel very irritable when my blood glucoses are high or low. I know that my temper also shortens. My irritability leads to frustration. Many years ago, before blood testing, before insulin pumps, and before Continuous Glucose Monitoring, my mood swings were much more severe.

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    9. Nick Trubov

      Now that I’m brain dead I have no idea!

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    10. Dave Akers

      I feel my BG levels effect me all the time. Wether I’m range or not, it just becomes exhausting to manage it. When I’m low I get frustrated that I did something wrong to create the low. I say, “ dang it Akers, you’ve been doing this for 18yrs… you should have figured it out by now!”
      But I know that DM has a mind of its own, yet I still become frustrated.

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    11. cynthia jaworski

      I don’t consider what happens with low blood sugar as a “mood change.” It is an impending train wreck and all my energies are spent on getting back on track. Other than that, I don’t think I am crankier than anybody else around me.

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    12. Sherrie Johnson

      Blood sugar affects everything and moods get in the mix.

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    13. Thomas Cline

      I checked “other” because I thought the question was badly worded. There is no question that I’m affected by low glucose — I can’t imagine there being anyone who is not (at the very least everyone will pass out if low enough). I get very grumpy below 60. But any glucose level above 65 has very little effect on my mood — including being above 300 (which rarely happens and never for very long). Although my mood as not affected, physically I feel best around 200, which is unfortunate because I try to stay well below that most of the time. But I think the question should have been restricted to higher levels only. I know there is a large difference among Type I’s with respect to how they react to higher blood glucose levels. I do wish I had had my blood glucose measured before I was Type I (onset at age 56) so that I’d know what my normal baseline was.

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    14. Twinniepoo74

      I believe it has a major impact cause with my high blood sugars I am a bit more grouchy and more lazy. Low is the same and normal I feel great so more happy and energetic.

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    15. Anneyun

      Over the last few years I’ve realized that I get anxious and panicky feeling when my bg is high.

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    16. Greg Felton

      Sometimes I wonder if it is the out of range BG level affecting my mood, or just knowing my BG level is out of range that affects it.

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    17. Nicholas Argento

      I’m not Mary Poppins when my BG is way off..:/

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    18. Edward Geary

      After about 2 years of, for me, tight control, A1C less than 7.0, I’ve observed highs trigger malaise more quickly. Conversely, lows are more challenging to treat, so after.48 years I’ve found a happy medium with DexCom 6 and Control IQ i.e.
      120 to 180.

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    19. Janis Senungetuk

      Long before CGMs and personal bg monitors I lived life on a continuous glucose roller coaster. The numerous severe lows did a lot of damage and definitely increased the depression I fought as a teenager/young adult. Now, having access to a Tandem pump/CGM combo with control- IQ, my glucose levels are far more stable, but I’m now left to deal with the earlier damage from the severe lows.

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    20. Mick Martin

      I selected “1 (least impact)” as I’m a miserable, self-important, self-righteous git at the best of times. This MAY, however, be very different for other INDIVIDUAL diabetics.

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    21. KSannie

      In the evening a low blood sugar puts me to sleep. But if I go to bed, a BG below 120 keeps me from sleeping. And at all times, anything above 130 puts me to sleep unless I am actually doing something that keeps me awake (not driving or reading!), like shopping or hiking.

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    22. Jane Cerullo

      Get aggravated getting low readings up without going high.

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    23. Wanacure

      If bg goes way low, do not all humans feel anxiety and stress due to adrenaline increase? Yet sometimes I just feel sleepy and totally unmotivated when my bg is slowly going low. Cognitive behavioral therapy suggests we can control or program our emotions, or exert at least some emotional control in any situation. If I’m angry at myself for losing something in my home, I can choose to call myself stupid…or I can take a couple of deep belly breaths and say to myself, “It will turn up within a day, It always does.” Certain emotions, like confusion or fear or feeling stressed can be regarded as helpful and welcomed as an alert to check my blood glucose levels and to sit down and maybe eat a couple of sugar cubes.

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    24. Michelle Saunders

      I chose most impact, as if they are fluctuating or just high it intensifies my emotions.

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    25. AnitaS

      Since having a cgm prevents most super lows or super highs which would affect my mood, I don’t think the more moderate typical lows or highs affect me much.

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    26. Anita Galliher

      After 59 years with T1D, I’ve had it up to *here*. Everything about it makes me mad. I hate going high and I hate going low. I’m tired of having to account for every morsel I put in my mouth and then worry about whether the insulin I took was too much or too little. I’m sick of hearing the two buzzes for a high or the three for a low, and especially the four for dangerously low. I would so love to walk out the door and not have to carry a CGM, PDM and candy for whichever way my BG decides to swing. And the older I get, the more illogically it swings. It would help tremendously if the insulin would kick in when I go high or allow the candy (or juice or glucose tabs or whatever) to do it’s job when I go low. It seems nearly every time I am happy or having fun or just sitting and reading a good book, T1D butts in and ruins the mood. It hasn’t always been this bad, but the older I get, the worse it gets. And that makes the future scare me to death.

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    27. Bonnie Lundblom

      Anxious and frustrated when high, concerned and frightened when low, content and happy when in my range!

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    28. Sue Herflicker

      I know when I have days that I run high and nothing I do helps I get very aggravated. And days when I run low all day makes me anxious and nervous. I picked 3 but maybe I should have picked 5. It really does affect my mood. My sons and brother have said the same thing.

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    29. Cheryl Seibert

      I selected “3”. Highs do not affect my mood much, other than frustration if I can’t get it to go down. The lows, however, have a distinct impact on my mood IF THE BG DROPS fast (impatience, short temper). If BG slowly drops, I don’t have much change in mood.

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