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<blockquote data-quote="jddukes" data-source="post: 373925" data-attributes="member: 49946"><p>Hi VickiT,</p><p></p><p>My profile must be very much out of date!? I've been a type 1 for 6 years but it was quite late onset for me as was in my mid-20s.</p><p></p><p>I went through the honeymoon phase as all type 1's do, where I was initially on less insulin then almost suddenly, had to massively increase. I remember it well - was in Paris and went out for a meal, nothing too carb-y and came back to the hotel, felt like **** and checked my readings - the monitor said "hi". Despite at first thinking it was just being friendly, I soon found out this meant it was >33mmol/l! So I took 20IU of novorapid. 1hr later, and about 10 toilet trips it was still saying "hi" so I took another 20IU. About an hour later and still feeling so awful it read 32.5mmol/l. I took another 20IU and in the morning I woke up and it was in the 6's. 60IU of insulin needed!!</p><p></p><p>I do believe I was pre-diabetic for a while, and kept it at bay with my lifestyle of heavy exercise and high protein diet I had adopted as a weight-lifter. It all happened after a bout of Epstein-Barr Virus in which I developed hepatospleenomegaly, insane tiredness and abnormal blood panels (lipids, Liver markers, etc). I have always behaved like a type 1 since the diagnosis following the downward trend from pre- to full-blown type 1.</p><p></p><p>I sincerely believe that the ability to go very low carbs (20-40g ed) and still not need insulin for me personally while reamaining between 6-7mmol/l at all tests I have done since day 3 of the diet, is down to exercise and my muscle mass. I have always said for a while that I believe the more muscle you have, the more impact exercise has on your blood glucose levels. I exercise a LOT, often twice per day during the week plus my lean body mass is above average (e.g. I tend to be classified as obese/overweight by BMI despite having a 30-32" waist...) due to 12-13 years of heavy weight lifting.</p><p></p><p>In fact, something I have believed for years due to the mechanisms of exercise on BG levels independent of insulin seems to be apparent now in more recent research. Have a read of this article:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uom-lwt040413.php" target="_blank">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 040413.php</a></p><p></p><p>It certainly advocates the use of developing fast-twitch "white" muscle fibers through resistance training as a beneficial approach to helping control diabetes.</p><p></p><p>Every aspect of the analysis of my various clinical tests over the last 6 years since diagnosis with Type 1 has confirmed that I am a type 1 so have no reason to believe that is not true. However I am sure we are often very limited by classifying people so rigidly when perhaps in the field we do not as fully understant the various subtle differences from person to person with this disease. Therefore I must return to what seems to me to be the most logical explanation as to why I can control it like this - exercise and muscle composition.</p><p></p><p>To add further proof I guess to my theory, when I take off a week from exercising my BG goes very high and I have to prepare for this by massively increasing my basal bolus and novorapid insulins. </p><p></p><p>Hope that makes sense,</p><p>J</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jddukes, post: 373925, member: 49946"] Hi VickiT, My profile must be very much out of date!? I've been a type 1 for 6 years but it was quite late onset for me as was in my mid-20s. I went through the honeymoon phase as all type 1's do, where I was initially on less insulin then almost suddenly, had to massively increase. I remember it well - was in Paris and went out for a meal, nothing too carb-y and came back to the hotel, felt like **** and checked my readings - the monitor said "hi". Despite at first thinking it was just being friendly, I soon found out this meant it was >33mmol/l! So I took 20IU of novorapid. 1hr later, and about 10 toilet trips it was still saying "hi" so I took another 20IU. About an hour later and still feeling so awful it read 32.5mmol/l. I took another 20IU and in the morning I woke up and it was in the 6's. 60IU of insulin needed!! I do believe I was pre-diabetic for a while, and kept it at bay with my lifestyle of heavy exercise and high protein diet I had adopted as a weight-lifter. It all happened after a bout of Epstein-Barr Virus in which I developed hepatospleenomegaly, insane tiredness and abnormal blood panels (lipids, Liver markers, etc). I have always behaved like a type 1 since the diagnosis following the downward trend from pre- to full-blown type 1. I sincerely believe that the ability to go very low carbs (20-40g ed) and still not need insulin for me personally while reamaining between 6-7mmol/l at all tests I have done since day 3 of the diet, is down to exercise and my muscle mass. I have always said for a while that I believe the more muscle you have, the more impact exercise has on your blood glucose levels. I exercise a LOT, often twice per day during the week plus my lean body mass is above average (e.g. I tend to be classified as obese/overweight by BMI despite having a 30-32" waist...) due to 12-13 years of heavy weight lifting. In fact, something I have believed for years due to the mechanisms of exercise on BG levels independent of insulin seems to be apparent now in more recent research. Have a read of this article: [url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uom-lwt040413.php]http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 040413.php[/url] It certainly advocates the use of developing fast-twitch "white" muscle fibers through resistance training as a beneficial approach to helping control diabetes. Every aspect of the analysis of my various clinical tests over the last 6 years since diagnosis with Type 1 has confirmed that I am a type 1 so have no reason to believe that is not true. However I am sure we are often very limited by classifying people so rigidly when perhaps in the field we do not as fully understant the various subtle differences from person to person with this disease. Therefore I must return to what seems to me to be the most logical explanation as to why I can control it like this - exercise and muscle composition. To add further proof I guess to my theory, when I take off a week from exercising my BG goes very high and I have to prepare for this by massively increasing my basal bolus and novorapid insulins. Hope that makes sense, J [/QUOTE]
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