Hello everyone. I hope everyone is doing well and had a good weekend of great sugars - I've found since lockdown my horrible diabetes control has improved drastically.
Just wondering if anyone else has the same experience with sun - specifically sun from May- August time and usually between the hours of 10am and 5pm. Autumn and winter sun doesn't seem to do this to me.
When I stand out in the sun, I start to feel incredibly weak and shaky after a few minutes. I get this tight feeling pain in my lower abdomen. I've just stood out in the garden talking to my neighbour for 20 minutes or so, and the regardless of how hot it is, if it is a warm day (17C+) without clouds and the sun is beaming down, I start feeling really ill. I get dizzy, tired, shaky and weak. I came indoors and my blood sugar is normal (13, and I recently ate so my insulin hasn't had a chance to work yet), I sat down and my head/eyes feel fuzzy and it almost feels like I am having a hypo in terms of shakes/weakness. It's not too bad today but last summer my work were forcing us to have meetings outside when it was 28 - 38C and I almost fainted a few times from having to stand on the spot for 10-20 minutes in temperatures like that. The hotter it is, the worse my symptoms are.
I don't know if this is diabetes related or not, but I've noticed it get progressively worse over the years. And I now hate summer because of it. I generally hate the sun anyway and stay indoors a lot because I'm one of those anti-aging 50SPF all year round freaks. I'm very pale and look very young for my age due to lack of sun. Make vampire jokes if you like.
I get very happy and energized by darkness and rainy/cloudy days.
Just wondering if any other diabetics experience this? I don't tend to get rashes or anything like that. I just get weak, shaky and nauseous and my vision gets weird. I started taking a high dose of vitamin D every day since April to compensate for the lack of sun, as I am completely shielding in lockdown and only go outside to water my pumpkin patch.
Just wondering if anyone else has the same experience with sun - specifically sun from May- August time and usually between the hours of 10am and 5pm. Autumn and winter sun doesn't seem to do this to me.
When I stand out in the sun, I start to feel incredibly weak and shaky after a few minutes. I get this tight feeling pain in my lower abdomen. I've just stood out in the garden talking to my neighbour for 20 minutes or so, and the regardless of how hot it is, if it is a warm day (17C+) without clouds and the sun is beaming down, I start feeling really ill. I get dizzy, tired, shaky and weak. I came indoors and my blood sugar is normal (13, and I recently ate so my insulin hasn't had a chance to work yet), I sat down and my head/eyes feel fuzzy and it almost feels like I am having a hypo in terms of shakes/weakness. It's not too bad today but last summer my work were forcing us to have meetings outside when it was 28 - 38C and I almost fainted a few times from having to stand on the spot for 10-20 minutes in temperatures like that. The hotter it is, the worse my symptoms are.
I don't know if this is diabetes related or not, but I've noticed it get progressively worse over the years. And I now hate summer because of it. I generally hate the sun anyway and stay indoors a lot because I'm one of those anti-aging 50SPF all year round freaks. I'm very pale and look very young for my age due to lack of sun. Make vampire jokes if you like.
I get very happy and energized by darkness and rainy/cloudy days.Just wondering if any other diabetics experience this? I don't tend to get rashes or anything like that. I just get weak, shaky and nauseous and my vision gets weird. I started taking a high dose of vitamin D every day since April to compensate for the lack of sun, as I am completely shielding in lockdown and only go outside to water my pumpkin patch.
