Rough Waters

Well guys and gals, the past few days have been pretty rough for me. My blood sugar (blood glucose level) has been all over the place. It been up in the three hundreds and then tumbles into the fifties. Why, you may ask? I have no idea whatsoever. I am not currently under the weather, I not overly stressed (I've been worse) and thankfully it is not that time of the month. So why is this happening? Over the years I have just kind of accepted that sometimes there might not be a reason. You just deal with it and get everything back on track. But now that I am out on my own, I am realizing how scary it is and I want to know what I can do to prevent these random changes in my glucose levels.
So I decided to do some research...

I was genuinely surprised how hard it was to find any information. But low and behold I found something!
The article I found was on Diabetes.WebMD.com. This article explains different reasons for high and low blood glucose levels. Here are some examples:
 Reasons for a random high reading-

• Severe stress
• Heart attack
• Stroke
• Medicines such as corticosteroids.
• Excess production of growth hormone

Reasons for a random low reading-

• Decreased thyroid hormone levels (hypothyroidism).
• A tumor in the pituitary gland.
• Malnutrition or an eating disorder, such as anorexia.
• Medicines used to treat diabetes.

I knew that stress could cause a variance in blood glucose readings but I never thought medicines like corticosteroids could affect it. Although I am not taking any such medicine so that is not the reason. Well, at least not for me. But I could have to in the future so I will definitely remember this if I ever have to!
I have decided that it was just some stress and lack of sleep (I am a college student).  Although I'm still not sure that's the whole reason, but I'm going with it. The body is an amazingly complex thing and I do not have the mental capacity to try and figure it out. So farewell until next time whoever is out there reading this!