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<blockquote data-quote="Margi1975" data-source="post: 2655715" data-attributes="member: 397504"><p>I’m not an expert on alcohol becuase I don’t drink it, but I do know that it lowers blood glucose. (that’s the main reason I don’t drink it; nearly fifty years ago at diagnosis I decided it would be yet another variable I didn’t want to have to deal with) So if you were having sugar free stuff then that might be why you were staying a bit lower then. I don’t know enough be able to relate it to the DP. </p><p></p><p>For the DP I can only tell you my own experiences. I find that if my BG is showing an upward trend on the graph on waking, a very tiny bolus dose can do the trick before injecting the carb balancing dose for breakfast. But I mean tiny: no more than 2 units. I also find that if I exercise straight after breakfast the BG usually climbs sky high, no matter what type of exercise. I ride a horse at random times of day, and I never know doing that whether I’m just going to have a lovely time using up energy and therefore carbs and have to guzzle fruit juice during the ride, or if I’m going to be a bit nervous or stressed (which is not unusual), and despite the vigorous exercise my BG goes sky high. I don’t know how much extra adrenaline might be pumping into your system on your walk, but as an experiment it might be worth changing the time of day of your walk and see If it makes a difference to your DP. I think of adrenaline as the crazy idiot leaping unpredictably from one end to the other of our carefully balanced seesaw. You can’t tell when it’s going to be there and when it isn’t.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Margi1975, post: 2655715, member: 397504"] I’m not an expert on alcohol becuase I don’t drink it, but I do know that it lowers blood glucose. (that’s the main reason I don’t drink it; nearly fifty years ago at diagnosis I decided it would be yet another variable I didn’t want to have to deal with) So if you were having sugar free stuff then that might be why you were staying a bit lower then. I don’t know enough be able to relate it to the DP. For the DP I can only tell you my own experiences. I find that if my BG is showing an upward trend on the graph on waking, a very tiny bolus dose can do the trick before injecting the carb balancing dose for breakfast. But I mean tiny: no more than 2 units. I also find that if I exercise straight after breakfast the BG usually climbs sky high, no matter what type of exercise. I ride a horse at random times of day, and I never know doing that whether I’m just going to have a lovely time using up energy and therefore carbs and have to guzzle fruit juice during the ride, or if I’m going to be a bit nervous or stressed (which is not unusual), and despite the vigorous exercise my BG goes sky high. I don’t know how much extra adrenaline might be pumping into your system on your walk, but as an experiment it might be worth changing the time of day of your walk and see If it makes a difference to your DP. I think of adrenaline as the crazy idiot leaping unpredictably from one end to the other of our carefully balanced seesaw. You can’t tell when it’s going to be there and when it isn’t. [/QUOTE]
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