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Will I drop or will I rise?

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Antje77

Antje77

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Type of diabetes
LADA
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This will be my monday morning game,
I'm planning a new for me activity for six mondays, and I have reasons to expect a rise and reasons to expect a drop so it'll be a surprise!

Gambling on your own is no fun, so I thought everyone could join in!
I'd offer amazing prizes for the winners of course, but I'm pretty sure the forum rules don't allow it. So we'll do with playing for eternal fame, and I'll take my bookie career elsewhere.

The activity will be a 45 minute front crawl training in the morning to finally learn how to do this properly.

Why I expect a drop:
Moderate intensity swimming, aquarobics/aquajogging, playing in the pool with friends always drops me, and it often needs a little top up of carbs after about half an hour.

Why I expect a rise:
High intensity training in the gym makes me shoot up, especially in the morning, and I need to dose for it beforehand and sometimes again halfway through.
I expect this course to be of significantly higher intensity than my normal swimming, aquarobics/aquajogging, or playing in the pool with friends.

So cast your vote and start playing!
Bonus points of course for correctly guessing by how much I'll rise or drop!



(Yes I just remembered the poll option existed and I wanted to try it out.
Useful reasoning as to why I should expect a rise or a drop very welcome as well as just playing for the win of course! You may have some ideas I haven't thought about yet.)
 
I have bet rise as swimming makes me rise! I find any exercise stressful how ever gentle it is!
Edit to add by how much of a rise 1.7.
 
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Rise of 1.2 you'll be pushing hard with crawl tough and your body will access it's sugar stores but equally you're planning a long swim so will keep rise going too high.
 
Fall by 3.0 - I only say this because whenever I go swimming I always seem to fall off a cliff and drop like there's no tomorrow and yet I rise in the gym!!! :hilarious:
 
Rise by 4.1 points (that's the type of rise I often see after an hour's walking football)
 
Before I place my bet I would like to know if you will have eaten before the activity. If so, what and how long before?
 
Pipp said:
Before I place my bet I would like to know if you will have eaten before the activity. If so, what and how long before?
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No food beforehand (breakfast doesn't happen before afternoon in my house so that's as it always is), but I will have a couple of coffees with a dash of milk.

Another relevant factor is dosing for foot on the floor, which I may or may not do.
On my usual moderately intensive swimming days I take a reduced dose for getting out of bed, and occasionally I skip it completely before swimming when waking up on the low side.
This dose (if I take it) will be at peak action right when I'm in the pool.
 
Antje77 said:
There's always the edit button!
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No I am a woman of honour I will stand or fall by my choice hehehe. (Besides I really don’t have a clue, even if I had a A4 page of info it still wouldn’t help hahaha) and thirdly what if I change my mind and I was right in the first place! Imagine that!
 
Ah, now I have your info, @Antje77, I am still no wiser. My own experience (T2 not on insulin, just Metformin) is that with no breakfast, morning swim generally causes a rise of between 1.6 and 2.6, immediately after getting out of the pool. Then a drop an hour later of about 3.0.

My wild guesstimate is a drop of 0.7. :)
 
Paul_ said:
Love it!

One quick question - how long after the activity will you be taking a reading?
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I use a Libre sensor, but it tends to give me wildly off readings (both too high and too low) until about an hour after swimming.
So in addition to my graph I'll do a fingerprick some 5 minutes before starting, and again right after getting out.
One in between if I suspect a hypo as well.
And very likely another one some 30 to 45 minutes after, considering I'll be driving and I can't really trust my sensor at this point.
 
Antje77 said:
I use a Libre sensor, but it tends to give me wildly off readings (both too high and too low) until about an hour after swimming.
So in addition to my graph I'll do a fingerprick some 5 minutes before starting, and again right after getting out.
One in between if I suspect a hypo as well.
And very likely another one some 30 to 45 minutes after, considering I'll be driving and I can't really trust my sensor at this point.
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Hmmm, interesting. :)

So I have very limited experience and testing data, only 6 weeks after diagnosis, plus I'm a T2 with no meds. Moderate to intense exercise, without food beforehand, makes me increase for about 30-60 mins after, often by 1 to 2 points. 2-3 hours later, I'm anywhere from 0.5 to 2 points lower than my pre-exercise reading.

I'll go for a rise of 1.8.
 
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