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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1422642" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>T1 won't stop you biking! If anything, exercise will make it easier. </p><p></p><p>You might be honeymooning at the moment. Shortly after diagnosis, the beta cells in the pancreas which make insulin start working again for a while, can be months for some people, a year or so for others, and it can make things very unpredictable: you bolus correctly for a meal, then your beta cells squirt out some more insulin on top, which sends you low. So be careful in the first year and expect the unexpected, always have some fast sugar in your pocket.</p><p></p><p>Exercise allows you to use glucose with less insulin, so, generally speaking, each time you have a meal, think about what you're going to be doing in the next six hours. If I know I'm just going to be sitting around I'll take X units, but if I'm going to be exercising, I'll take a few units less. The amount you drop it by will be learned through experience.</p><p></p><p>I'm a lot lazier now but used to live on my bike when I was younger. A Dawes Galaxy tourer, racing green, with Brooks saddle.</p><p></p><p>Usually did about 20 miles a day, didn't need much for that other than lowering insulin and taking some dextrotabs with me, one bottle with water, the other with some fruit juice.</p><p></p><p>Did tours as well, with tent in the panniers, a few hundred miles over a week or two, about 50 to 80 miles a day, and would generally lower my basal by about a half or a quarter a few days before in preparation seeing as the mileage was higher and for longer. Carried some oatcakes and jam and kind of drip- fed myself with them periodically: a quick glucose boost from the jam, and a slow feed from the low gi oatmeal. Dried dates were pretty useful as well: very high carb and didn't take up much room in the panniers.</p><p></p><p>There's a thing called after-drop which you should be careful about. You can be fine during exercise, but you can then drop quite heavily hours afterwards, so keep an eye on that. </p><p></p><p>I really didn't find T1 to be a problem on tours. Because of the exercise, I'd be sitting down to a plate of pasta and would just take a tiny squirt of insulin, because I knew (a) afterdrop, (b) less insulin if exercising.</p><p></p><p>Sure, be cautious to start with, especially when honeymooning, but pretty soon you'll know by how much to lower insulin, and the main hurdle will be well meaning relatives saying, ooh, you're diabetic, are you sure you should be doing that?</p><p></p><p>My answer to that is to show them this pic of my bike and my trusty Macpac tent pitched overlooking the sea when I was cycling from Rome to Athens, and then say to them, I'm T1 and I did that, you're not T1, would you even think about doing that?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]22306[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>Main problem really, was that I'd try to keep civilised and pitch up near a pub for a few pints which adds an additional layer if complexity!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1422642, member: 374531"] T1 won't stop you biking! If anything, exercise will make it easier. You might be honeymooning at the moment. Shortly after diagnosis, the beta cells in the pancreas which make insulin start working again for a while, can be months for some people, a year or so for others, and it can make things very unpredictable: you bolus correctly for a meal, then your beta cells squirt out some more insulin on top, which sends you low. So be careful in the first year and expect the unexpected, always have some fast sugar in your pocket. Exercise allows you to use glucose with less insulin, so, generally speaking, each time you have a meal, think about what you're going to be doing in the next six hours. If I know I'm just going to be sitting around I'll take X units, but if I'm going to be exercising, I'll take a few units less. The amount you drop it by will be learned through experience. I'm a lot lazier now but used to live on my bike when I was younger. A Dawes Galaxy tourer, racing green, with Brooks saddle. Usually did about 20 miles a day, didn't need much for that other than lowering insulin and taking some dextrotabs with me, one bottle with water, the other with some fruit juice. Did tours as well, with tent in the panniers, a few hundred miles over a week or two, about 50 to 80 miles a day, and would generally lower my basal by about a half or a quarter a few days before in preparation seeing as the mileage was higher and for longer. Carried some oatcakes and jam and kind of drip- fed myself with them periodically: a quick glucose boost from the jam, and a slow feed from the low gi oatmeal. Dried dates were pretty useful as well: very high carb and didn't take up much room in the panniers. There's a thing called after-drop which you should be careful about. You can be fine during exercise, but you can then drop quite heavily hours afterwards, so keep an eye on that. I really didn't find T1 to be a problem on tours. Because of the exercise, I'd be sitting down to a plate of pasta and would just take a tiny squirt of insulin, because I knew (a) afterdrop, (b) less insulin if exercising. Sure, be cautious to start with, especially when honeymooning, but pretty soon you'll know by how much to lower insulin, and the main hurdle will be well meaning relatives saying, ooh, you're diabetic, are you sure you should be doing that? My answer to that is to show them this pic of my bike and my trusty Macpac tent pitched overlooking the sea when I was cycling from Rome to Athens, and then say to them, I'm T1 and I did that, you're not T1, would you even think about doing that? [ATTACH=full]22306[/ATTACH] Main problem really, was that I'd try to keep civilised and pitch up near a pub for a few pints which adds an additional layer if complexity! [/QUOTE]
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