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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I’ve been type 1 for 22 years and for most of it have had unpredictable but not too extreme ups and downs of insulin sensitivity. It seems that everything effects my insulin sensitivity inconsistently, which has always made it hard to maintain really good blood glucose control but it’s been possible to just get by without going hypo too much. Up until recently I have had an active life but lack routine and didn’t do any sports. I started doing 10 minute daily runs 2 weeks ago and it’s caused a huge increase in insulin sensitivity but not consistently. I’m hypo half the time and needing huge amounts of sugar to treat them and I’m in the process of figuring out new insulin amounts. The weird thing is that since I started doing this regular exercise my blood sugars also seem to rise quicker after eating. Is there other hormones that get affected by increased exercise that could account for this? Anyone else been through anything similar and got any tips? I am already reducing my background insulin gradually and slowly but I think it needs to be several units less and that’s all I’ve come up with so far.