Over the past few years, we’ve seen Kyle O’Reilly come into his own as a performer. The former ROH World Champion would put all the pieces together as part of the WWE NXT roster, before signing a multi-year deal with All Elite Wrestling. Currently out with an injury, it’s unclear when O’Reilly will be back in the ring – one thing that never kept him out of the ring was his experiences with Type 1 diabetes.
Kyle O’Reilly Goes Into Detail On What Wrestling Is Like With Type 1 Diabetes
While speaking to Beyond Type One, Kyle O’Reilly was asked how competing affects his diabetes. He’d be quoted saying the following.
“Wrestling puts a lot of demand on you mentally and physically—a lot of anxiety and stress. We know what happens when your body is under stress—your blood sugar spikes.
On days where I’m on TV it seems like my insulin doesn’t really work. I think that’s cortisol and stress doing its thing. As soon as I’m done and I can settle back down it works again. Typically before matches I tend to run pretty high, but I think that beats the alternative of having a low. We all know what can happen there. So I have to be a little comfortable being high going into the ring. I might get a little more tired at the time, but I can manage that. As soon as I come back through the curtain, I take insulin.
So much of diabetes is dealing with the curveballs that it throws at you. There’s never a one-size-fits-all remedy to a situation.
Roddy Piper said: ‘Just when you think you have the answers, I change the questions.’
I think diabetes is a lot like that. Just when you think you’re figuring it out, something will happen and you just have to deal with it accordingly.”
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