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Helpful advice with sports and exercise

richard hauxwell

Member
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Location
Stockton-on-Tees
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi just a quick question i am type 1 diabetic and ihave started a training routine and i eat 6-7 times a day but now i am not having to take insulin with food at all i have between 50-60 grams of carbs with 5 of them meals. Has anyone experienced the same. If i take 1 uint for the 60 grams of carbs i end up hypo within about 20 minutes.
 

Hi,

What basal (long acting) insulin are you using? It may need a tweak?
Do you find yourself treating a fair few hypos with your new excersise regime?
 
Jaylee said:
Hi,

What basal (long acting) insulin are you using? It may need a tweak?
Do you find yourself treating a fair few hypos with your new excersise regime?
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Hi Jaylee

I am on a insulin pump and it nova rapid.
My basal is set at 0.950 units an hour it was 1.8 units an hour 4 weeks ago before i started training. But i can eat a 60-70 grams of carb no take any insulin for it and still drop low 20 minutes to 1 hour later. I mainly get hypos at night when im a sleep.
 
I had my second last meal 70g carbs 45 minutes ago and i was at 4.6mmol it rose to 8.6mmol and it back to 4.5mmol without taking any insulin.
 
richard hauxwell said:
I had my second last meal 70g carbs 45 minutes ago and i was at 4.6mmol it rose to 8.6mmol and it back to 4.5mmol without taking any insulin.
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Hi,

Just to clarify. In what space of time did you peak & drop back to 4.5 from the first bite of the meal?
 
richard hauxwell said:
So i would peak normally around 10 minutes after food then it would drop within 20 minutes after that
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Are these BG readings done with a meter, or using a CGM style sensor?

Do you have your pump sited in muscle tissue?

Sorry if the sound like silly questions. I don't pump but I'm pretty responsive to Novorapid.
What you are saying sounds like you are sort of feeding your basal dose..?
The more activity I get. The more insulin sensitive I become. Though my activity isn't from "sport."

When is the last time you saw your endo?
 
I have it on my side on my stomach the oblique region. And i get my info from finger pricking and the free style libre. The last time i seen my endo was rough about 3 and half years ago.
 
richard hauxwell said:
The last time i seen my endo was rough about 3 and half years ago.
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I think if you're not confident on changing your pump dosing you need to talk to an endo again. Sounds like your exercise may have changed your insulin sensitivity by quite a bit.
 
richard hauxwell said:
I have it on my side on my stomach the oblique region. And i get my info from finger pricking and the free style libre. The last time i seen my endo was rough about 3 and half years ago.
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OK? No judgement on the non-endo. But you may need a revision?
Throwing this out there....
Exersise wise. What sort of work outs are you doing? Stomach crunches & wot not? (Lol, I did spend three years in the late 1980/early 90's at a Surrey dance school..)
 
With regard to endo i never get an appointment to see one only one i get is with my dsn. With the exercise i do 120 minute high intense cardio and i do around 45 minutes cardiovascular weight training.
 
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