There’s talk online of a term used to treat stubborn glucose highs. Glucose levels go too high for too long and make us worry. We have to get the glucose down. Moderate amounts of insulin get shrugged off. We get frustrated, crank up the insulin and jam it in our bodies. Rage Bolusing. Then, in due course, the glucose wanders back down. If we used too much, we’re faced with a dangerous low and we have to reach for sugar to stave of hypoglycaemia. There’s a post online about Type 1 diabetes trying to kill you three times a day. Not far from the truth.
Do you ever wonder what causes these stubborn highs in the first place? I tell my endo they’re due to hidden stress. I think they interpret that as ordinary stress, the stuff you can feel. But what I’m talking about are those emotional triggers that give you headaches, raise your blood pressure and, yes, make your body super resistant to insulin. You are likely unaware of the trigger.
Hidden stress is clearly a problem for many people with diabetes, so why aren’t we hearing of research behind it? I suspect the cause is an aversion to suggesting that hidden emotions are involved. It’s all that hard-to-measure, woo-woo kind of stuff that researchers avoid. (Plus there’s no pharmaceutical cure — research costs money and that many often comes from big pharma.)
But there’s already tons of research out there. I believe there’s a reluctance among some professionals to attribute illnesses to emotions, and that’s silly. We carry emotions in our bodies, that’s pretty clear. So a stubborn glucose high has some emotional reason to persist, right? It’s ironic that we have to get angry and frustrated as we treat it.
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