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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
I take metformin 500mg TID and eat a moderately lowish carb (100g/day) diet. I can't eat too much fat or it upsets my digestion. With this I can keep my general BG readings in the "prediabetes" range. My nemesis has always been fasting glucose and after exercise. I'm really frustrated with the exercise highs, and hoping some of you can share management tips. I'm moderately active, these days although I have a desk job I either run or hike + yoga every day; at other times of year bicycle commute. But exercise always sends my sugars up. Today after just a regular 30 min before-lunch run my hands were shaking so much I could barely test afterwards. I'm not dangerously high, just high enough to have symptoms (I get shaky, blurry vision, excessive thirst/urination, swelling hands/feet).
Others who get exercise highs, what do you do? Do you eat something before running, and if so what kind of thing? Are there times of day that are best (tricky in winter, I know, when it's dark before/after work)? Something else? I'd really like to exercise without feeling like garbage afterwards. And right now the only tool in my toolbox is to just chill out and fast until my BG is back to normal. A nap always helps but I can't always just stop and nap! Thanks in advance.
Others who get exercise highs, what do you do? Do you eat something before running, and if so what kind of thing? Are there times of day that are best (tricky in winter, I know, when it's dark before/after work)? Something else? I'd really like to exercise without feeling like garbage afterwards. And right now the only tool in my toolbox is to just chill out and fast until my BG is back to normal. A nap always helps but I can't always just stop and nap! Thanks in advance.