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- Type of diabetes
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Hi all
Type 1 of 37 years.
I'm after some guidance, if you don't mind, regarding exercise and impacts on BS levels. Someone suggested I should post here so here goes! I'll try and summarise below:
Train five/six days a week, combination of HIIT style cardio plus weights, running.. I was doing long runs leading up to a marathon a couple of months ago but I'm concentrating on speed and Half marathon distance for now.
I'm right on the edge of normal BMI (as in, right at the top / close to 'overweight' so trying to still reduce weight gradually but I've lost most of what I wanted to over the last few years do that's not my primary focus any more - but DO NOT want to put it on again)
I'm on 3xnovorapid 1xinsulatard and have been for 20 years. Over the last few years I've reduced my insulin from c. 80 units / day to c. 38 (combination of weight loss, increased exercise and less carbs). Half of that is my overnight insulatard dose.
Anyway... My specific question is, I experience bizarre patterns when exercising. Sometimes BS lowers (as I'd expect) but sometimes, almost always when exercising at high intensity / lifting heavy weights it jumps up to high 20s or worse. It happens once in every two or three times exercising at high intensity. Also, sometimes, the following day, despite minimal insulin, I can't eat enough carbs to avoid hypos - for hours, and hours. All very annoying.
My HBA1C is pretty good at 6.8 but I'm v worried that this masks my highs and lows. Like the idea of a pump because on the hypo days I could reduce the basal in real time rather than accepting the insulin in my body is already injected and can't be undone.
I've read Sherri Colberg but I just can't figure out the patterns despite tracking, measuring and monitoring for months. It's getting a bit depressing now.
Any thoughts or advice on this. Is the pump a way forward? I've had a really great suggestion already to try Levemir which would be quicker than the pump, so I'm going to ask about that, but all thought gratefully welcome!
Cheers - so sorry it's so long!
Karen
Type 1 of 37 years.
I'm after some guidance, if you don't mind, regarding exercise and impacts on BS levels. Someone suggested I should post here so here goes! I'll try and summarise below:
Train five/six days a week, combination of HIIT style cardio plus weights, running.. I was doing long runs leading up to a marathon a couple of months ago but I'm concentrating on speed and Half marathon distance for now.
I'm right on the edge of normal BMI (as in, right at the top / close to 'overweight' so trying to still reduce weight gradually but I've lost most of what I wanted to over the last few years do that's not my primary focus any more - but DO NOT want to put it on again)
I'm on 3xnovorapid 1xinsulatard and have been for 20 years. Over the last few years I've reduced my insulin from c. 80 units / day to c. 38 (combination of weight loss, increased exercise and less carbs). Half of that is my overnight insulatard dose.
Anyway... My specific question is, I experience bizarre patterns when exercising. Sometimes BS lowers (as I'd expect) but sometimes, almost always when exercising at high intensity / lifting heavy weights it jumps up to high 20s or worse. It happens once in every two or three times exercising at high intensity. Also, sometimes, the following day, despite minimal insulin, I can't eat enough carbs to avoid hypos - for hours, and hours. All very annoying.
My HBA1C is pretty good at 6.8 but I'm v worried that this masks my highs and lows. Like the idea of a pump because on the hypo days I could reduce the basal in real time rather than accepting the insulin in my body is already injected and can't be undone.
I've read Sherri Colberg but I just can't figure out the patterns despite tracking, measuring and monitoring for months. It's getting a bit depressing now.
Any thoughts or advice on this. Is the pump a way forward? I've had a really great suggestion already to try Levemir which would be quicker than the pump, so I'm going to ask about that, but all thought gratefully welcome!
Cheers - so sorry it's so long!
Karen