As many of you know...I have removed sugar from my diet. Not all sugar, I am sure...but all sodas, all sweets, etc....and I actually spent 17 or 18 days absolutely pain free except for one brief couple of hour period. Reduced my neurontin by half...and needed nothing to help me sleep at night (PM meds nor ibuprofen).

On Friday, I had the blow up from Hades with my boss...screaming, crying, etc...and by that afternoon the pain was unbelievable and by nightfall I was crying with the pain, daughter in law was at a loss and her friend was totally in disbelief at the pain I was in. It was as if I had never had a pain free day it returned so suddenly. Carried over into Saturday with a little less intensity. My sister finally insisted I increase my neurontin just a little (I so did not want to go back up with the meds) in order to get some immediate relief...so I did and Sunday was fine again with relatively no pain.

The pain was so bad that in the middle of it I thought about just giving up...having Dr. Pepper and a whole bag of cookies ....but decided I would just persevere and hope it was just a flare up due to the absolute stress of Friday!

Im thinking it stands to reason that if stress can cause your blood sugar levels to increase...it could easily bring on the pain just like if you were eating foods that cause the blood sugars to increase.

Any thoughts?