These hormones cause your liver to release stored sugar into the blood in case your muscles will need energy for sudden action. When you are under emotional stress, your body will react the same way. This causes your blood sugar to rise. Stress can also affect your blood sugar by causing you to get off of your self-care pattern. Depression or thinking about extra things can cause you to eat more, eat less, forget to take your medicines, forget to exercise or forget to check your blood sugar.
Different things cause stress in different people.
One thing that causes stress in everybody is change. Stress doesn t have to be caused by a major event. Small things can affect your body just as much as major things. Stress doesn t have to be caused by a bad thing, either. Stress from preparing for a trip is a good thing, but it can still have bad effects on your blood sugar.