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Big rise in levels after Netball game??

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SandrafromOZ

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Greetings folks, I have not posted in a little while. Have had some other issues to deal with of late!

Anyway my question is this! Not long back from a competitive game of Netball with my daughter's team and exactly 2 hours after eating a very normal meal and playing this game my reading was a shocking 13.4!! Could not believe it! Also quite hot here today and came away sweating profusely...thought the sport would have been good for me but not when I read my meter!!

Cant win really, at Netball or Type 2 :crazy:
 
It was the type of exercise that probably did it. Its due to hormones.
In competition the hormones used for fight/flight come into play. The body senses it will need some rapid energy so your liver supplies it.
Netball is also a start/stop type of sport and if you aren't that used to it the running periods are likely to be anaerobic ie make you breathless. Even in non diabetics this type of exercise is known to cause hyperglycemia.
The heat probably didn't help either (heat stress)
Type 1 diabetics who take part in this sort of competitive sport on a regular basis have to adopt different strategies before a match and for different intensities of training (some even needing to take insulin during/ before a match.)
http://www.runsweet.com/DiabetesAndSport.html
The good news is that all that excess glucose will have come from stores. Glucose levels once they come down should be lower. Any sort of exercise will also increase insulin sensitivity in the next 24 hours or so.

The best type of exercise for lowering glucose levels tends to be less intense, sustained and regular

Did you win?
 
Thank you so much Phoenix! This helps alot!

And no we didnt win tonight :x
 
I find that in rugby training I need sugar, but in a game, I'm stressed anxious and nervous and that sends my sugar levels up! Strange, I know. Gary Scheiner talks about this in his Think Like a Pancreas book.
 
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