This is not an advisable method to treat a hypo, by any means but here is what happened during my recent trip to Paris, once I found my blood glucose levels at 3.9 mmol/ls and then embarked on climbing the stairway of the Eiffel Tower - facing my one phobia, heights! Despite the exercise, I believed that the fear factor I have of heights (which started as a child after an incident that saw me dangle from a 30 ft abseil wall on the Isle of Wight) would trigger my liver to release glucose through adrenaline. I was right. The further I went, the more my blood glucose levels increased. The increase wasnt dramatic, in terms of sending me in the other direction from the slight hypo and heading hyper, but I found myself in the 5mmol/ls zone by the first tier, in the 6s by the second tier and by the time I arrived safely on the ground again, a level of 7.9mmol/ls (and increasing as indicated by my Dexcom G4). So there we have it, fear can increase your blood sugar levels - but diabetes cannot prevent you from facing fears. In diabetes, you face the fear of health and in doing so can go on to make more of life, appreciating its value all the more. I faced my fear of heights and you can see the views that I took in at Paris.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:42:43 +0000
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