Well, let me set the scene....
I'm 15 and was diagnosed 3 years ago. Since then I have changed my insulin around a bit and am now taking a mix of Novorapid, Novomix 30 and Lantus.
I row for around 2 hours 5 times a week (everyday apart from wednesday and thursday) and have always found this to be a huge help in controlling blood sugars.... until recently.
I could always rely on excercise to bring down my blood sugars but for a highly annoying reason of which I am not sure it has not been so helpful recently. For instance, today I came home from school and had a slight low of 3.8 no problem, i had a few biscuits and 4 glucose tablets, as i knew i would be rowing later. So i do about 2 hours of reasonably iintense excercise and return home to find my reading 18 before dinner!!!!!! :cry:
This is not the first time this has happened and I am getting quite upset witht these high readings that occur throughout my days (my average of 35 tests was 8.5.) Every time I have a high reading I am convince myself that I will die at 50, lose both feet, have a diabetic child, fail my exams because the highs fry my brain and never succeed at anything ever!
Any chance of some reassurance eg. your stories of bad patches/how long your high readings have to be for them to have any serious damage etc? :cry:
I'm 15 and was diagnosed 3 years ago. Since then I have changed my insulin around a bit and am now taking a mix of Novorapid, Novomix 30 and Lantus.
I row for around 2 hours 5 times a week (everyday apart from wednesday and thursday) and have always found this to be a huge help in controlling blood sugars.... until recently.
I could always rely on excercise to bring down my blood sugars but for a highly annoying reason of which I am not sure it has not been so helpful recently. For instance, today I came home from school and had a slight low of 3.8 no problem, i had a few biscuits and 4 glucose tablets, as i knew i would be rowing later. So i do about 2 hours of reasonably iintense excercise and return home to find my reading 18 before dinner!!!!!! :cry:
This is not the first time this has happened and I am getting quite upset witht these high readings that occur throughout my days (my average of 35 tests was 8.5.) Every time I have a high reading I am convince myself that I will die at 50, lose both feet, have a diabetic child, fail my exams because the highs fry my brain and never succeed at anything ever!
Any chance of some reassurance eg. your stories of bad patches/how long your high readings have to be for them to have any serious damage etc? :cry: