trouble trying to exercise

i am type 1 and have been for over 20 years. i have done the DAFNE and been on glargine, then levmir, then went onto bovine hypurin isophane. along with novorapid and metformin. also 200 of the thyroxine each day and one fluoxetine.

i get regular UTI infections. I have become over weight over recent years with nothing seeming to make a difference.
i have a healthy diet. I cycle and walk. My problem is that each time i try to embark on further exercise to help the cycle of insulin resistence i see to be on, and to help me generally improve my health and weight, it always seems to go wrong.

I end up struggling because my sugars get higher and higher and i feel so awful i cannot manage it. i am fully aware of not exercising on high sugars as they get higher. i learnt this the hard way many years ago.

when they are high, i don't do it and adjust my meds as best as i can.

so a few weeks ago i joined a gym and took it carefully. managed a couple of half hour sessions and then the third time, my body felt like a lead weight and my sugars went really high and then i started to get some pains in my legs as the weeks went by. (i did stop going to the gym)......i went to start pilates to be more sedate and get a greater inner strength.......but then shortly later i my groin muscle suddenly went and i could hardly walk for about a week.
i went to the dr and got further advice.
i tried swimming...but had barely done one length of the pool and my elbow muscles hurt so much i had to stop....

so then i feel dreadful....and still get the pains here and there...sometime seizing up and sometimes lets me walk.

my point is that i just cannot seem to be able to unlock the energy successfully from my cells to help my body during exercise and so be able to get fitter and healthier and stand any chance at losing weight.

i have struggled for years at this. i seem to suffer with nervousness and stress a lot too.....it seems to have a mind of its own and take over

any advice much welcomed

thanks

thank you for that....very interesting.....i have had my moments (particularly during what i call a hungry hypo)....when i have eaten more than i should have done.
i have followed lower carb for of eating (don't like the diet word)....i have even calculated how much insulin i should take to try to lose the weight and then figure out what i can eat. it doesn't work for me...infact it makes things worse.

unless i go into exercise with a good blood sugar....i will not be able to manage it and it will make me feel quite poorly....however then you have to keep an eye on it all day to avoid the hypo......so you could then say...take less insulin to begin with to avoid the exercise hypo....but then that will bring on a hyper during the exercise which then makes you feel even worse.

i am insulin resistent. a few things have made this change.......i am regularly on antibiotics for recurrant UTI's......one year i was given a different antibiotic (cannot remember its name at the mo)......i had such a weight lifted off my shoulders for that week.....i did't have to live with the high sugars because they all came down. and then i cautiously reduced the insulin and this was by quite a dramatic amount by the end of the week. i did speak to the dr about this but nothing was said.
then later that year i had the same antibiotics and the same thing happened again.....a huge reduction in insulin and i was fighting off the hypos....
i went back to the dr to ask what part of the drug he thought would be doing this (after explaining at some length).....
he looked it up and just said that there is only one mention of side effects on this drug and it is very rare.....severe hypo's!!!

that would explain the great insulin reduction....and thank goodness that i watch it so carefully!!..

so now i DO NOT have those drugs again!!!

and so at the moment i am on a virus suppression drug as a trial.....it has been suggested that this may explain some of the aches and pains.....i am wondering if the virus is something that could have been affecting my diabetes for a long time.....the virus is the cold sore one (herpes simplex)......and whilst i don't typically show the signs of ....it is in my blood and the dr wanted to see how i would go on the new drugs....all i do know is that my injections in my arms are working better at the moment....other body parts they are not working.

i am 5ft 6" and on approx 65 units total of insulin a day .....how does that sound?

thanks....am making moves to go back to my old diabetes team as i have no choice....i think the chances of changing insulin here will be very slim......they are more a sort of 'lets not listen to the patient team' ....i shall not go on as it will only bore and irritate me and you....

thank you for the idea though....i will try to speak about it