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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2124609" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, CC1, indeed they can, but as a T1, there's going to be times when you should help it out with some dextrotabs, lucozade, apple juice, jelly babies, oreos, jelly babies, Jaffa Cakes, Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, etc.</p><p></p><p>A non-T1 has one hormone, insulin, which lowers bg, and four which raise it: glucagon, cortisol, adrenaline and growth hormone.</p><p></p><p>T1s don't make insulin anymore, so we have to inject it, and we will often get the amount wrong, but we do still make the four which raise bg. That means that even if you make a big screw up on insulin amounts, you still have four hormones working away to knock your bg back up.</p><p></p><p>The way they do that can take time and be unpleasant (hypo shakes aren't because of low bg, they're because of the adrenaline rush), so it's normally best to chip in with some fast glucose to raise before adrenalin etc. get involved.</p><p></p><p>If you can't do some biccies cos you're sleeping, the four hormones <em>will</em> pull you out of it. They basically tell the liver and muscles to release stored glucose to raise bg.</p><p></p><p>The gardening situation you mention looks like this to me:</p><p></p><p>You've injected the 2u and had lunch and then you've exercised by pushing a lawn mower around.</p><p></p><p>The insulin will hit peak activity about 90 mins after injecting it. That will be dropping bg, and the exercise will also drop bg because that's what exercise does.</p><p></p><p>So, it looks like you've had a "double whammy" of insulin hitting peak and exercise.</p><p></p><p>A lesson for the future when the docs give you free rein on carb counting would be to say, hmm, eating now with x units, but will be exercising shortly afterwards, the exercise will drop me, so tail back the amount of insulin taken for lunch.</p><p></p><p>It's basically a complex balancing act involving three variables operating over several hours: how much insulin/how much carbs/how much exercise.</p><p></p><p>You'll inevitably make mistakes on those calls - we all do - but just as a hint at the sort of things you should be looking for to understand it is your comment that your bg went back up: my call on that is that the insulin and exercise were dropping you, but, as this was just after lunch, the carbs from the lunch were getting into your bg to balance that out, so a sit down instead of chewing sweeties was enough to raise you.</p><p></p><p>T1 can be an incredibly complex game, but get those basics of what is the food doing, the insulin doing, and the exercise doing and how they play together over 6, 12, 24 hour periods, and it makes more sense.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2124609, member: 374531"] Hi, CC1, indeed they can, but as a T1, there's going to be times when you should help it out with some dextrotabs, lucozade, apple juice, jelly babies, oreos, jelly babies, Jaffa Cakes, Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, etc. A non-T1 has one hormone, insulin, which lowers bg, and four which raise it: glucagon, cortisol, adrenaline and growth hormone. T1s don't make insulin anymore, so we have to inject it, and we will often get the amount wrong, but we do still make the four which raise bg. That means that even if you make a big screw up on insulin amounts, you still have four hormones working away to knock your bg back up. The way they do that can take time and be unpleasant (hypo shakes aren't because of low bg, they're because of the adrenaline rush), so it's normally best to chip in with some fast glucose to raise before adrenalin etc. get involved. If you can't do some biccies cos you're sleeping, the four hormones [I]will[/I] pull you out of it. They basically tell the liver and muscles to release stored glucose to raise bg. The gardening situation you mention looks like this to me: You've injected the 2u and had lunch and then you've exercised by pushing a lawn mower around. The insulin will hit peak activity about 90 mins after injecting it. That will be dropping bg, and the exercise will also drop bg because that's what exercise does. So, it looks like you've had a "double whammy" of insulin hitting peak and exercise. A lesson for the future when the docs give you free rein on carb counting would be to say, hmm, eating now with x units, but will be exercising shortly afterwards, the exercise will drop me, so tail back the amount of insulin taken for lunch. It's basically a complex balancing act involving three variables operating over several hours: how much insulin/how much carbs/how much exercise. You'll inevitably make mistakes on those calls - we all do - but just as a hint at the sort of things you should be looking for to understand it is your comment that your bg went back up: my call on that is that the insulin and exercise were dropping you, but, as this was just after lunch, the carbs from the lunch were getting into your bg to balance that out, so a sit down instead of chewing sweeties was enough to raise you. T1 can be an incredibly complex game, but get those basics of what is the food doing, the insulin doing, and the exercise doing and how they play together over 6, 12, 24 hour periods, and it makes more sense. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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