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<blockquote data-quote="James_Donnelly" data-source="post: 1880067" data-attributes="member: 214632"><p>The insulin I'm on is Novorapid as my fast acting and Abasaglar as my night time long acting Insulin. 16 unit per night for my long lasting one. That keeps me steady throughout the day. I'm generally around 5.5-7.5 all day every day now, but when I exercise my BG plummets. Generally I just find it's better for me to just eat something before it, try and drive up my BG higher than normal for a 10 minute window basically, then exercise and by the time I'm off it, the exercise has pulled it back down. Just means I need to exercise at specific times. For example I just had dinner just now, was 4.7 or so, had the dinner, took now insulin, drove me up to 8.7, hopped on the bike for 20 minutes, got off and I'm back down to 5.2.</p><p></p><p>As for hypo awareness, when I exercise I don't feel it most of the time to be honest. I just know from exercising that it drives it down so I'll have my machine next me and measure it after 30 minutes of exercise. I think it is mostly the intensity of the exercise that's doing it to be honest. I go pretty hard on the bike, about 12-12.5 miles in half an hour. When I am doing steady cardio it doesn't react this way. I played football every week for years and only every hypo'ed twice during it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James_Donnelly, post: 1880067, member: 214632"] The insulin I'm on is Novorapid as my fast acting and Abasaglar as my night time long acting Insulin. 16 unit per night for my long lasting one. That keeps me steady throughout the day. I'm generally around 5.5-7.5 all day every day now, but when I exercise my BG plummets. Generally I just find it's better for me to just eat something before it, try and drive up my BG higher than normal for a 10 minute window basically, then exercise and by the time I'm off it, the exercise has pulled it back down. Just means I need to exercise at specific times. For example I just had dinner just now, was 4.7 or so, had the dinner, took now insulin, drove me up to 8.7, hopped on the bike for 20 minutes, got off and I'm back down to 5.2. As for hypo awareness, when I exercise I don't feel it most of the time to be honest. I just know from exercising that it drives it down so I'll have my machine next me and measure it after 30 minutes of exercise. I think it is mostly the intensity of the exercise that's doing it to be honest. I go pretty hard on the bike, about 12-12.5 miles in half an hour. When I am doing steady cardio it doesn't react this way. I played football every week for years and only every hypo'ed twice during it. [/QUOTE]
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