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Permalink Reply by Gerri on July 21, 2010 at 9:05pm

Stress is stress, awake or asleep. Anything that gets adrenaline going (exercise, emotional stress) will raise blood sugar.

This might be also be a chicken & egg situation. The high BG might have caused the nightmare. Before I was diagnosed, I had nightmares & vivid dreams that woke me frequently. Once it came down, I don't have the dreams I used to have.

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Permalink Reply by Domo! on July 21, 2010 at 9:35pm

I've noticed that to.... I hate dreaming, unless it's a good dream

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Permalink Reply by Glow on November 6, 2011 at 10:23am

I had nightmares, shaking and panic attacks...before I got put on metaformin..

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Permalink Reply by PatientX on July 21, 2010 at 9:37pm

For a while I was going low in the middle of the night and weird dreams happend to show up on those nights. i thought the nighmares were waking me up but it seems that the nightmares were part of the lows. I wonder if the brain percieves the lows as a danger and the mind starts to have nightmares. I would wake up around 160 to 170 with cold sweats, confussion, and shaken up. I thought it was the bad dreams but I did a test in which i saw my numbers keep dropping hour after hour during the middle of the night.

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Permalink Reply by Glow on November 6, 2011 at 10:22am

Wow...before I was diagnosed I had weird, vivid dreams and woke up shaking, as though my body were warning me. It went on for a year until a smart Doctor caught on and put me on metaformin. I woke up shaking and weird this am and knew my sugar was too high--took it and sure enough it was..fasting a few hours to get it down below 130 or so..I knew our bodies can trigger a nightmare as a warning.."something is wrong," kind of thing. I am not alone in this and feel your post was somehow comforting. Perhaps its the other way around..perhaps the SPIKE causes the nightmare as a warning, but I can't say, except to say I have this happening to me also..hang in there!! -Glow

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Permalink Reply by Jen on November 6, 2011 at 11:47am

Vivid dreams and nightmares are a pretty common symptom of overnight hypos, which can result in your body triggering the release of glucose to get your blood sugar up. So, it could be that you went low which triggered the nightmare and also the high blood sugar.

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Permalink Reply by Glow on November 17, 2011 at 4:45pm

Thank you for your reply...I am now being taken off metaformin due to excessive muscle pain and weakness and dehydration...I was taking such a small dose, too..

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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on November 6, 2011 at 2:42pm

That's an interesting theory, I got home last night after clubbing (ha ha) and was a shade low, w/ IOB and ate a bunch of pepperint ice cream, maybe not that much but well, I just "cartoned" it and ended up running up in the AM. I didn't have a low but had a wierd dream about running shoes, ending up choosing the Adidas.

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