Bath = Low BG!

[newbs]

If I plan to have a bath I am guaranteed to have a hypo just as I am about to run it! My levels have been high for days, not sure that my levemir is working tbh, high every morning and then continuously throughout the day despite carb counting and injecting as I should. Wondering if my sites are failing (levemir usually injected in thigh or bottom 😱). Not sure where else to inject though as rotate my NR between stomach and arms and my stomach area not great either ?

Good thing to the hypo right now is that I can open the choccies we were given for our 11th anniversary yesterday! 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Have you checked your basal levels recently?

And - chocolate however tempting, simply ain't a really good hypo remedy. Too much fat, slows the carbs down ....

 

[Robster65]

AGree about the chocs. Not the best for hypo treatment.

As for the highs, could you be developing a cold or something ?

Or it may just be a seasonal thing.

Your sites should be ok as long as you physically move them around on the same thigh/arm/cheek. They can still get fatty lumps, so maybe best to check the areas and rest any that seem a bit lumpy, but that puts extra pressure on the others, so not easy.

Not sure why you go low as you're about to run the bath. I could understand after you've been in a while, due to increased blood flow round your injection sites, but no idea. Unless you're stressed and the thought of a bath relaxes you enough to drop your BG back to normal.🙂

Rob

 

[trophywench]

Perhaps she lives in an old house and has to boil the water up in a copper, run it into a bucket (probably an enamel one) and bring it into the living room where the (tin) bath is ready and waiting in front of the (coal) fire .....








otherwise I don't get that either, LOL

 

[Robster65]

Perhaps she lives in an old house and has to boil the water up in a copper, run it into a bucket (probably an enamel one) and bring it into the living room where the (tin) bath is ready and waiting in front of the (coal) fire .....

I did wonder that too. 🙄

Or maybe if your bath is broken and you have to walk a few hundred yards to your friend's house, where they let you have a bath, but by the time you start running it, your bloods have dropped from the walk?

But rest assured, there's always a simple explanation for it. The hard part is finding out what the flippin' 'eck it is!

(but seriously) Best thing is write down everything from carbs in to insulin to exercise, to mood and see if there's any sort of pattern or explanation that could account for it. 🙂

Rob

 

[margie]

I am wondering if your stress levels are raised. I think you are still waiting to see the eye specialist (the second one) unless I missed something.

If you are worrying about that a lot it could be affecting how much insulin you need.

Can't explain why preparing for a bath would bring on a hypo though.

 

[newbs]

I live in a new house so bath runs quite quickly! The bath question wasn't really serious, just something annoying that happens each time I plan a bath, don't seriously think there is an explanation to that one.

I am stressed waiting for the next appt so maybe that is the cause of the highs, daughter's appt wednesday week, can't come soon enough. She has complained a lot over the past week of her eye hurting and one day it was all red and swollen Hospital say nothing we can do but wait to see the consultant.