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My blood glucose is high upon waking but gets better through the day I'm sleeping like a log but can't seem to get myself out of bed.
But the artlicle below seems to comfirm bad sleep patterns effect lots of diabetic people So your are not alone Goldi!
A bad night's sleep may not just leave you tired and irritable. It could also raise your risk of diabetes, research suggests.
Just one night of tossing and turning and getting only four hours' sleep can 'profoundly' affect the body's ability to use insulin to convert sugar into energy.
Disruption of this delicate process can lead to diabetes.
Complications arising from the condition include heart disease, blindness and amputations.
With a soaring number of Britons developing diabetes - from 1.26million cases in 1996 to 2.35million today - the findings suggest sleepless nights caused by the stresses of modern life are at least partly to blame.
To make the link, Dutch scientists looked at how effective the bodies of nine healthy volunteers were at processing sugar.
They were examined twice - once after a night of eight hours' sleep and once after grabbing just four hours.
Halving the amount of sleep reduced the body's ability to use insulin to process sugar - known as insulin sensitivity - by up to a quarter, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reports.
Previous research has found that several nights of poor sleep can send sugar levels haywire, but this study is the first to show that even one bad night - caused by a busy day at the office or a sick child - can be detrimental to health.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1273160/Sleeplessness-linked-diabetes-scientists-claim-tiredness-reduce-ability-process-sugar-bloodstream.html#ixzz0nEyArx00
But the artlicle below seems to comfirm bad sleep patterns effect lots of diabetic people So your are not alone Goldi!
A bad night's sleep may not just leave you tired and irritable. It could also raise your risk of diabetes, research suggests.
Just one night of tossing and turning and getting only four hours' sleep can 'profoundly' affect the body's ability to use insulin to convert sugar into energy.
Disruption of this delicate process can lead to diabetes.
Complications arising from the condition include heart disease, blindness and amputations.
With a soaring number of Britons developing diabetes - from 1.26million cases in 1996 to 2.35million today - the findings suggest sleepless nights caused by the stresses of modern life are at least partly to blame.
To make the link, Dutch scientists looked at how effective the bodies of nine healthy volunteers were at processing sugar.
They were examined twice - once after a night of eight hours' sleep and once after grabbing just four hours.
Halving the amount of sleep reduced the body's ability to use insulin to process sugar - known as insulin sensitivity - by up to a quarter, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reports.
Previous research has found that several nights of poor sleep can send sugar levels haywire, but this study is the first to show that even one bad night - caused by a busy day at the office or a sick child - can be detrimental to health.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1273160/Sleeplessness-linked-diabetes-scientists-claim-tiredness-reduce-ability-process-sugar-bloodstream.html#ixzz0nEyArx00
I can get back to sleep much better now but what all those years of not sleeping must have done! I sure knew the stress was affecting me....
WOW......
That is many years of sleepless nights. Yes, they say that it can harm you, so you had better get back to bed lol..I hear that the stress that is caused by sleepless nights can never be recovered. It is not like you dont sleep one night, but can make it up the next, because you cant.
i could NEVER drink that much water. I dont think that much water is good for you. I know about eight glasses a day is good, but that is an awful lot of water. I am only allowed a litre or at the most a litre and a half a day and that sometimes seems like a lot.
Watered down coffee is also considered a fluid and is counted in with your amount of water.. all are fluids for the day.. such as puddings, jello, tea, coffee, juice, soups.. all with liquids count
You definely would have more fluid on a hot day than a cool day and also more fluids the harder your work out is.
Crystal Light in the frig and drink that.
I like to have something with taste to it too. I get tired of just water. What else is in it, Arline?