Does stress cause your numbers to increase

If your fasting blood sugar is 108 or 110, you can bring it down to normal by diet and exercise. If you cut way down on the carbs you are eating, your blood sugar should be lower.

Yes, stress as well as pain can cause your numbers to increase.

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YES, stress increases blood sugar. What's going on is you start to stress out and your adrenal glands, little guys on your kidneys, release cortisol, a hormone. Cortisol is a natural glucocorticoid, it increases insulin resistance.

I am currently on, and getting off, prednisone which is an artificial version of Cortisol. Your body naturally produces about 5mg a day.

Your liver loves to see your blood sugar levels above a certain level, when it doesn't see that it converts some more complex forms of energy that it has into sugar and puts it into the blood.

So all in all
Stress > cortisol > insulin resistance > liver thinks blood sugar is too low > sugar level is increased by the liver