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I seem to be suffering when it comes to Exercise!

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shobe

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@ 28yrs old I seem to be suffering when it comes to Exercise!

I have Type 2 Diabetes and have been going to the gym first thing in the morning 2-3 times a week. I have an instructor and she pushes me very hard.

Sometimes I get very week and after a work out I feel exhausted for half the day. So I have put this down to not having breakfast and remedied that by having a banana before going. But then I seem to suffer from something quite Bizarre.. I get light sensitive within the hour after the work out, to the point where outside I’m squinting so hard that it hurts and my face get very contorted. I had to pull over in the car once because the light was so bright that I was squinting through one eye and that still was not enough to see!
I asked my father about it and he suffers the same thing!
Any ideas on why this happens and is it related to sugar?


Most concerned Shobe
 
Welcome to the forum Shobe.Have you tested you blood sugars after your exercises? I wouldn't be surprised if they were very high and this is what is causing the light sensitivity.I think you need to tailor your exercise down a bit so that you don't become so exhausted.By not having breakfast your sugars will soar in the morning because your liver is pumping out glucose to compensate for the exercise .Your muscles need to be fuelled and you have not given them anything to work with.
 
Im going again on Monday so I will do pre/after blood sugar tests.

Thanks for the insight... is it common for high sugar levels to cause light sensitivity? would like to let my dad know if it is.
 
If you Google, " hyperglycemia and light sensitivity " you will find quite a few references about this.However most are very scientifically based and not that easy to understand !!
 
How interesting. Before my diagnosis, my eyes were very sensitive to light,especially when driving and I never gave it any thought about being connected to diabetes. I don't really have that problem now, so I guess high blood sugars may well have had something to do with that.
This site is so useful and every time I come on here I learn something new.
 
This is how i went with the sugars today and yesterday

Sunday morning before breakfast 5.0
After eating 6.2 – 6.0
Monday morning before breakfast 6.1
1 ½ hrs After eating 1 banana, cup of apple juice, 1 slice brown bread with peanut butter and a 1hr workout 6.3
20mins later 4.7

is it ok to have your blood sugar drop from 6.3 to 4.7 in 20 mins?
 
How your blood sugar reacts will depend on the type of exercise that you do.
If you are doing aerobic exercise at a steady rate then you glucose levels start to decline, but if you a lot of weights or really go for it and are working your body anaerobically, your blood sugars will actually increase.

I had to really play around with my routine at the gym to maintain glucose levels and it now works that I do a mixture of both and can remove my pump and my levels stay stable. At one point I was really focusing on the weights and I was scoming out with high BM, other times I was going in with a BM of 8 and coming out with a BM of 3 even with reducing my pump bolus to 50%
 
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