I can't seem to go swimming without dropping significantly afterwards. I'll be around 11 or so before going into the pool and an hour later I'll be 3 or 4. It's starting to drive me nuts, because I'd like to lose some of the weight I've gained recently but by going low, I have to eat and then I spike (no matter WHAT i eat or how much/little i eat, how long after i wait to eat, even if i DON'T eat and let my body bust out the glucose, etc) which obviously isn't helpful.
Since I'm not on the pump, I can't lower my basal rate leading up to and after swimming, and I usually go in the evening around 7, after dinner so I've even tried un-bolusing for my dinner.
Suggestions? Am I totally screwed? It happens with -every- kind of exercise I do, have tried to do, or used to do, except walking.
(i think i've asked this question before, but i have so many posts..ugh..that i can't find the topic and i can't remember anything from it, or if anyone replied or any of that jazz haha so sorry if this is a repeat!)
Swimming does this to me too. Most other excercise I drop during/right after, but swimming seems to be delayed by about an hour. If it's not too much of a pain in the butt maybe try eating half your dinner before and half after? Then you will be eating the same amount of calories but hopefully not going low?
I am on the pump so lately I haven't had as many lows, but back when I was on shots I constantly had this problem. Everytime I would go jogging, do some cardio, or anything of the sort I would go low. And I HATED eating just to make my numbers go up. That always frustrates me! Whenever I go low my family wants to hand me cakes or cookies. LOL So when I used to go jogging I would take some jucie with me. Perfectly healthy and full of sugar. I'd sip on it every minute or so.
Swimming def makes me go lower than any other exercise too, Batts. My normal afternoon cardio routine, and I drop a bit; hanging out in a pool not even doing laps and I'm automatically LOW!
I'm on MDI too (I know you know that but for everyone else, lol) so I just try to eat before mid and after. Wish I had better advice!
swimming makes me go low too. What I do is eat a snack before I swim or do whatever and then I end up burning it all up so my blood sugar is perfect. Or try doing a temp. basal for the time that your swimming that is a little lower than what you would be getting. Hope this helps!
Like you, I am not on a pump. Take shot of lantus at night and use humalog to cover meals/snacks.
I found the best time for me to swim is in the morning before taking any humalog and just having a cup of coffee. I like my BS to be about 150 before swimming, If it is not that high when I wake up, then I will have a small snack to raise my BS to about 150. I swim for about 45 minutes. At the end of my swim, my BS is around 100-120. I found that if I do take humalog, than I need to wait about 5-6 hours before swimming.
So, if you want to swim at night, I would recommend you swim before dinner if possible. Hopfully this will be roughly 5-6 hours after your last shot of fast acting insulin.
Maybe you could check out some of those courses at Type 1 University (there is a link somewhere around here)? Gary Scheiner started it and he is the author of "Think Like a Pancreas" and I think he is an exercise physiologist too, so there was some stuff in the book about BG management and exercise, but with the classes you get an opportunity to ask the instructors questions so you might get some personalized advice. Just a thought
I wish i could swim in the morning before work haha I did that a few times and it worked out great but man I can't get up at 6am, I can barely get up at 730am to get to work! haha
I guess I'll just have to keep doing what I'm doing =/ Thanks for the advice folks!
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Maybe you could check out some of those courses at Type 1 University (there is a link somewhere around here)? Gary Scheiner started it and he is the author of "Think Like a Pancreas" and I think he is an exercise physiologist too, so there was some stuff in the book about BG management and exercise, but with the classes you get an opportunity to ask the instructors questions so you might get some personalized advice. Just a thought
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Yeah I've looked at it..but after trying and failing to finish the book (I found there was little help for those with MDI, most of the info was geared to pumpers) I'm not sure I want to spend the money for one of the "classes". I might instead, just ask my endo again and maybe talk to a registered kinesiologist instead. I used to see one as a personal trainer and he had a good handle on things. Of course..I wasn't swimming when I was seeing him and didn't go low with the routines he was doing with me =/
I would call them instead. I've sent several emails about volunteering over the years with my local chapter via the JDRF website but never got a response back. Most of the chapters (at least here) I think have only a few staff members and probably get hundreds of emails a day. I would suggest calling them and asking to sign up for their newsletter/distribution list and being placed on their volunteer list...rather than send them another email.
with asthma you never know when its gona happen, it kills more then diabetes does.
even with taking medication and doing the best you can to take care of your asthma you can still stop breathing and have a good possible chance of dying.
but with diabetes as long as you take care of yourself, you cant die.
its perty much impossible.
and yess with a pump you can eat whatever, whenever.
your just like a person without diabetes with it =))
I would trade diabetes in for any one that they have already cured like tetnus, measles, or polio. Cuz then I would be disease-free cuz it's already cured!
i don't think i'd trade it for anything... i already have asthma and allergies so i couldn't get those. diabetes is annoying and stuff but there are worse things to get.