Bs High After Exercise

[chezpez]

Can this happen?
I did a 3 hour hike up kinder in the peak district yesterday afternoon.. it was difficult and did hypo and ate loads of carbs. Was fine before bed but my bs was 4.2 so had 20carbs coz of hike.. anyway thru the nite it was 12 put some 1 unit in at 3 am woke up at 6am still 12, so put in 2 units ... finally had breakfast at 8am and it was still 10??
stuggled all day with level around 10 - 12 bs.. so i'm thinking has me doing exercise made me resistant or something to insulin, does anyone know? thanks

 

[Northerner]

I'd normally be needing less insulin in the hours after exercising, so this does sound unusual. Normally, exercise makes you more sensitive to insulin rather than resistant - levels normally will only rise if there is insufficient insulin circulating, but given that you were correcting with extra insulin this seems unlikely 😱 Any chance you might have a virus or infection? How many mmol/l will a unit normally drop you by?

 

[chezpez]

I'd normally be needing less insulin in the hours after exercising, so this does sound unusual. Normally, exercise makes you more sensitive to insulin rather than resistant - levels normally will only rise if there is insufficient insulin circulating, but given that you were correcting with extra insulin this seems unlikely 😱 Any chance you might have a virus or infection? How many mmol/l will a unit normally drop you by?

1 unit normally drops me about 2mmol, i dont feel ill... i'm thinking maybe its premenstrual

 

[Northerner]

1 unit normally drops me about 2mmol, i dont feel ill... i'm thinking maybe its premenstrual

Ah, not something that I have to deal with - as if there weren't enough factors to consider! I suppose the best thing to do is to try the same again and try to build up some experience so you know what to expect.

 

[Copepod]

In case you don't already know about it, Chezpez - http://www.runsweet.com/ has lots of backgrounf information about physiology etc for activity with type 1 diabetes, plus case studies for many sports. Not sure if there's anything about the extra considerations of menstrual cycles...