Hi everyone,
I am a T1 and recently have been more tired than normal. My blood sugar has not been as tightly controlled as before. I also work in a shop which can be physically exhausting sometimes so I dont exercise that often. So I dont know if exercising more will help(im sure it will) or if this is just part of being diabetic? I seem to be fine at work but when I get home at night i tend to get really tired. Any info???
When my blood sugar is higher than 250-300 than I get really really tired. But that symptom can vary from person to person. Also when my blood sugar goes really high to a really low a couple times a day that can really make me tired also.
It’s not that uncommon. The better your numbers are the more normal you will feel.
Get your thyroid checked. Fatigue (like you just CAN’T get enough sleep) is a pretty common symptom of being hypothyroid.
Its interesting you say that, I have been feeling that way for about a year. I ended up changing my schedule around (luckily my work is flexible and I can do that), so now I get up super early (5:30 ish) and get home from work earlier so I can exercise in the afternoon. I don’t know if it has to do with the Dawn Phenom, natural body clocks, or what, but it seems my new system helped a little. Do you notice anything about your days that are worse or better? Maybe there is something you haven’t noticed yet.
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When your body has high sugars and not enough insulin, you body will reduce your metabolism to stave off starvation.
The only way your body can do it is conserve, so you feel tired and sluggish.
If you get your sugars in line, your mood and metabolism will realign.
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Excercise is always good for diabetes especially type ones. Excercise, something as simple as walking a few km each day briskly will improve insulin resistance. When I didn’t excercise I never thought I had resistance , but I had foot on the floor effect. When I started brisk walking, after a few months I had to reduce insulin amounts by 35%, this although impressive didn’t surprise me, what did surprise me is that foot on the floor, that is, raising of BG just vanished! Also I had to stop blood pressure meds as my BP got to where I was passing out. So yes excercise can and does have profound effects on diabetes, additionally feeling well gives you huge amounts of energy. Of course high blood sugars for whatever reason will make you feel tired, but I found a regular excercise regime, largely from tighter control, removed how often it happened as well as mitigated the effects when it did. I recommend all type ones (and twos of course), if they are able, have an excercise regime of a few km five days a week of brisk walking.
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