we have had some nice weather so I have been doing a bit of gardening not heavy digging just planting and weeding ,my problem is my sugars always take a big drop 4 and under .im on insulin twice a day any advice please
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Any exercise can and will cause a drop in bg levels, if you are on mixed insulin it is not possible for you to adjust the fast acting part of your insulin so I would suggest that perhaps you eat something with a few carbs in it in future before gardening and hopefully the carbs will prevent your bg levels dropping too low, even a couple of biscuits could do the job but trial and error and frequent testing next time you spend time gardening should put you on the right road.
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Hi Susie, I asked a similar question a while ago, asking what to do when the gardening weather turned up. I was advised to leave my insulin dose alone and have 'biscuit breaks' every so often to counter the drop in bg levels. It works for me. Hope this helps.
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Lol. I just finished a gardening project.. Two skips of waste including a dismantled derelict green house, shed & two flip top tool stores.. Plus 8 "flat beds" of green waste.... I'm on MDI. Even lowering my basal a couple of notches I had to power up now & again with the odd buiscuit
Use digestive!
****. I still have to roof felt & paint a wooden gazebo. Re-build a stone water but stand & paint another shed structure..
Your Lucozade & apple is just peaking & dropping off too quick...
Use digestive!
****. I still have to roof felt & paint a wooden gazebo. Re-build a stone water but stand & paint another shed structure..
Your Lucozade & apple is just peaking & dropping off too quick...
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Chelsea Flower show next year?
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It's not my garden.. I'm not that keen on the horticultural side. But I'm comfortable with & enjoy the wood & stone. Even at home I only deal with the hardware.. Like I tell my wife. "If you want a lawn with nice boarders? You feed it, walk it & change it's little hutch."
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Or something slow-acting like some oat crackers or oat bars.
A morning or afternoons gardening drops my levels like a stone, I need a very small amount of insulin for quite a carby breakfast/lunch and can still manage the occasional hypo
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Jaylee where we you when I needed my garden redone? Workman to pull down old fence and wooden shed, put up new fence and cart rubbish (loads of it) away. Now I'm in the midst of redoing whole garden. Good exercise but oh my aching body 
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Probably munching a biscuit, squinting at my meter through a shimmery early warning lower vision haze. & contemplating the use of Napalm.!
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Napalm? Never thought of that. Wonder if it works on the idiots I live by?
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You could try "agent orange" on em? It certainly won't work as hypo treatment..Napalm? Never thought of that. Wonder if it works on the idiots I live by?
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Agent orange? How does that work?
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Wow.... you wouldn't want to come and help with my garden when you've finished, would you?
I have this "problem" too. I treat it as a great excuse to enjoy some tasty fruit sorbet in the sunshine!
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Sadly.
This video will highlight the use of both Napalm & agent orange..
Its not the sort of stuff that gets stocked at B&Q.!
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No but I could keep it for 'special' people
