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Hi
Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this…..
When I do my long run in the UK (~2 hours), I usually reduce my basal to 50%. I’ll eat some toast and banana before the run and might eat 1-2 gels while running. I may sometimes take 0.2 of a bolus for a little extra insulin.
When I’m abroad - say the US, with an 8hr time difference and different climate - on the same run, my bloods spike in a crazy manner. I reduce my basal to 50%, eat some toast and banana and go running. My bloods however go crazy high, in a sustained fashion. I’ve had to take 6 units of bolus just to try and level them out. Btw the 6 units is 30x the 0.2 units I’d take back home. If I did this back home I’d be dead in about 1km!!
I cannot help but feel there is something fundamentally going wrong in my body.
I have absolutely no idea.
I would also be very apprehensive to just take 6 units of bolus before the run.
Thx
Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this…..
When I do my long run in the UK (~2 hours), I usually reduce my basal to 50%. I’ll eat some toast and banana before the run and might eat 1-2 gels while running. I may sometimes take 0.2 of a bolus for a little extra insulin.
When I’m abroad - say the US, with an 8hr time difference and different climate - on the same run, my bloods spike in a crazy manner. I reduce my basal to 50%, eat some toast and banana and go running. My bloods however go crazy high, in a sustained fashion. I’ve had to take 6 units of bolus just to try and level them out. Btw the 6 units is 30x the 0.2 units I’d take back home. If I did this back home I’d be dead in about 1km!!
I cannot help but feel there is something fundamentally going wrong in my body.
I have absolutely no idea.
I would also be very apprehensive to just take 6 units of bolus before the run.
Thx