I'm wondering if anyone has any advice about recognizing when you're low while exercising. I run and climb - and the adrenaline always makes me wonder if i'm low. I know other people have the same problem, but has anyone found a solution (or partial solution)?
The only solution I could suggest would be to test often while exercising if you think you're low. I know that I have felt low due to adrenaline but am really 250 or something high like that.
Using a CGM, I see a pattern for me. Usually when I exercise I am at a decent number 90 - 150. I will start to work out and usually about 15 minutes in I will start to drop going below 80. Again, this is from doing intense cardio. I can't say what happens with lifting and the like. However, post work out usually about 45 minutes after I am done I will spike and start to climb towards my original number. I rely heavily on my CGM, but it is more the art of feeling yourself out and if you think you are low the obvious solution is to test, just to be sure. Nothing is 100% when it comes to exercise in my book.
Good call Brian.. im the same way! When im headed to the gym and if im under 150, i'll eat something or take a GU gel or 2, or something before my workout... it'll be burned by the time im finished... but should sustain me for the workout. THEN i'll eat a small meal afterwards :)
This is my big problem! A couple of days ago
I checked my self afrer rowing for one hour on my Concept 2 (600 calories burned) I felt great! Checked my glucose and I was 44! Immediately went down stairs and had some dessert. I felt strange on the way up.. Edo says that I go so low because I have been Type 1 for many years and must check myself more often in in order to raise my recognition level. He told me that you go unconscious at ten. Scarry!!
This is my big problem! A couple of days ago
I checked my self afrer rowing for one hour on my Concept 2 (600 calories burned) I felt great! Checked my glucose and I was 44! Immediately went down stairs and had some dessert. I felt strange on the way up.. Edo says that I go so low because I have been Type 1 for many years and must check myself more often in in order to raise my recognition level. He told me that you go unconscious at ten. Scarry!!
Luckily, if I go low during the night, I still wake up in time to treat it, but sometimes I am so low that I get confused, disoriented. Just two nights ago, I had a bit of a scare. Woke up very low, started going down the stairs to the kitchen, and fell down a couple of the steps. The result is a bruised coccyx (tailbone). Ouch. At the time, I just didn't feel like moving off that last step, but I knew that I had to get some sugar in me.
EASY SOLUTION!! Eat a few nuts at bed time. Preferably almonds or walnuts according to my Endo!! The fat in them is released 2-7 hours after eating them and you will not go low during the night.! Remember when nuts are digested they are turned into half glucose and half body fat for reserve energy. . Eating too many will keep you high for too long!. You do not want to look like those fat guys at the gym!
ALSO! Keep JELLY BEANS by your bed! They are bright and you will see them! They are mostly pure corn sugar (Glucose)! They taste great and you will be up in no time!
Thanks for the suggestion, S6370 (BTW, quite an interesting name! LOL). I love almonds; my problem is that I do indeed have to count them out (15) before eating them because otherwise I would probably eat a whole pound at one sitting! I've also been playing around with my nighttime basals a bit... could be the answer to my lows.