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Yay for running! Personally I run regularly, anything up to about 15 miles - I race half-marathons. I'm generally good at avoiding hypos while I'm running, but become exceedingly insulin sensitive afterwards and that can last for a couple of days in the case of a hard race of an hour or more...

I'm newly diagnosed T3c - yeah... that's gonna be fun explaining to docs and nurses for years to come. Basically T3c = my pancreas is a bit busted (I had pancreatitis, but they're also checking for mild cystic fibrosis). The current situation is that I still make my own background insulin, but...

How high do you find your BG has to be before the excess-peeing kicks in? I ask because I'm either in the pre-diabetes phase of T2, or the honeymoon period of T1 (37, skinny, fit, no metabolic features). We have both T2 and T1 in the family. One of the major 'symptoms' I have is polyuria, but...

Thanks for the reply LittleWolf. I like the idea of a subforum for the as-yet-unclassified folk still wandering in the wilderness. So, I ran my GTT off the asthma meds, and just about scraped a pass. Unfortunately my lungs objected so I'm back on the drugs - with consequent return to the same...

I was recently diagnosed with Addison's disease - my adrenals have failed. Treatment is 'just' replacement steroids for life. Around 50% of people with addison's also have diabetes - half Type 1 (or 1.5) and half Type 2. In a cortisol crisis your BG plummets, and I had a few up and down...