can anxiety cause low blood sugars?

Jill-

Hello! Everything you listed above will cause your blood sugar to go up and down. Anxiety can cause high blood glucose levels and low glucose levels depending on the person. You should always carry glucose tablets or something to help your bg's go back up once you experience a hypoglycemic episode. Do you have a strong support system for your anxiety attacks or someone to talk to in general? We have an anxiety community here. If you click here it will take you to a great community and an online support system. 

Take care

Cherise 

Community Moderator

Yes very much so, you are not alone

Yes, I experienced the same on ocassion.  I have found that reducing stress is not as easy as it sounds.  Yet it is something we have to work towards to help ourselves if we want to control our blood sugar levels. For me, praying and meditating seem to help.  I also try to be more positive in my attitude toward things that get me down or burden me more than I want.  This is not easy and I am not always successful, so I too experience "out of control" excursions.  I offer you that practicing what ever helps you ease the anxiety will help in lessen the "out of control" excursions.  The what ever helps varies for each of us so start to list the things that help you and then practice them daily until you get proficient.  Hope this helps.  It has helped me.

In my case depression is actually a sign of low blood sugar. I know when I start feeling really down and it doesn't make a lot of sense that I need to eat something. Diabetes is already a big block on your back and when you pile on depression and stress they all just feed on each other a become bigger. I wish I had a magic potion to reduce stress but you could try what I do, stop doing what ever is stressing you and go and do something healthy that you know you will have fun doing. Not scientific or medically proven but it does help me.