Mr Happy said:Rhe good new was that the ambulance driver was HOT!
It reinforced a bit of the general annoyance many of us feel with regards to medical professionals advice. I got a hammering from the paramedic despite being on my way out knowing I needed sugar. I had done my gym session and took 4 glucotabs and a banana and went to the sauna to stretch my somewhat tired legs. Did about ten lengths in pool and started feeling ropey, sat down for 5 and was attempting to head back to the changing room. Woke about 40 mins later with a crowd of medical staff. They waited til my bloods hit 15 before they released me - 2 bottles of powerade, 2 hypo stop tubes and a protein flapjack. Suffice to say I was 31.2 by the time I got home.
But indeed, a reminder on how tricky managing excercise is...
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Mr Happy said:Had a massive crash around 7 today as well. Either I have a weird infection or a bad batch of insulin. 28.1 at 4pm had 14 units and some biscuits, crashed below 2 at 7pm with no hypo signs :-(
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iHs said:Hot weather will also make bg levels fall so combine exercise into it all and hypo we will.
I've turned my basal on my pump down to 50% today and will just use the bolus to sort me out according to what my bg levels pan out. Yesterday..... was on the low side all day long even with the pump turned off for 2hrs....
noblehead said:Faith* said:I need to re-read it I think, since the first time I've learned loads but like you said SamJB I think my basals are changing again as I've slowly started to creep up over night! Such a pain. I'll tell you what's interesting though. No matter what I do in the afternoon's I will always hypo about 4-5pm. I've decreased basals, changed bolus ratio's and without fail every day I will hypo! The body is a fascinating mechanism! That or mine is weird!
I tend to run in the mornings but find if I drop may basal I'll go really high 2 hours later so I mostly eat breakfast, do half the amount of bolus and then go to the gym about 40 minutes later and I'm usually ok. Weight training is a bit of a problem that I'm still working on though, I believe it can raise your sugars and it sometimes does in my case but then also it can do nothing at all and I need the full bolus for breakfast.
Possibility your afternoon hypo's are caused by the exercise you do in the morning, exercise has the tenancy to lower bg several hours after due to the body replacing its glycogen stores, if the hypo's are a common occurrence then have a carby snack say 2-3pm.
Faith* said:Your going to laugh... I've not been to the gym for 2 days and no afternoon hypo, so your absolutely spot on. It must be the morning exercise causing the late afternoon hypo!
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