Anybody getting elevated insulin and blood sugar swings.

Anybody have elevated insulin or insulin resistance including significant swings and blood sugar regardless of diet?

Mine was never low, but would elevate into pre-diabetic, 100-125 per US range, despite low body fat and more than average exercise.

I found it to be cortisol related\, even after lyme treatment. Cortisol managing (lowering) herbs would make lower glucose back down into 90's.

Cortisol signals the liver to dump sugar into the blood, after all, a saber tooth tiger must be chasing me right? Nope just illness recovering stress and living stress raised my cortisol , thus glucose too. Not uncommon.

Quin said...
I was getting high blood sugar but taking valproate fixed it. The really surprising thing about this is that what it does is stimulate the growth of pancreatic beta cells. Those cells can produce insulin for several years. The high blood sugar did not come back when I stopped the valproate.

Sometimes my blood sugar would get low, and I would take hydrocortisone for that.

So you were taking valproate for other issues (?) and lowering glucose was an unforeseen side affect ?

It seems hydrocortisone can do either depending on the individual - if they have a beta cell issue or high cortisol to begin with. Coffee can elevate glucose in many people since in can elevate cortisol over the range.

My A1c was high in the past too.....now normal at 5.5.

Obviously not one reason for all.