exercise

Evening Everyone, Can anybody give me a definitive answer to my question, i've tried the "experts" the local NHS diabetes specialists but they don't understand my question, let alone answer it. Here we go. 1. TRESIBA lasts for 48hrs, it's not adjustable on a daily basis, takes three days to...

Hi everybody, this is my first post on here. Please could anybody share their experience of exercising whilst using tresiba. I have been informed that you can only adjust the dosage of tresiba once a week. How can this work if one day you need to lower your basal dose so you can exercise? I've...

Parkrun organise free, weekly, 5km timed runs around the world, that are open to everyone to take part in. On behalf of the Parkrun Diabetes Champions group a survey has been set up about Parkrun and any possible barriers for people with diabetes to taking part. The survey is aimed at people...

Hi All, It's been a month since I was diagnosed. I am slowly getting to grips with everything (apart from the erratic tendency of my BG levels) and intend on starting to exercise. Before I was diagnosed I cycled quite a bit - up to 60 miles at a time. I need to break back in gently because I...

Hi, I am currently training for a 1/2 marathon and have recently switched to Levemir. I 'think' I have sorted my doses out and am taking split doses of 9u at 9pm and 17u at 7am. Things seem to be going ok...until training. Since running more my night time hypos have come back! Do I reduce my...

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An international team of researchers and clinicians led by York University Professor Michael Riddell has published a set of guidelines to help people with type 1 diabetes exercise safely to avoid fluctuations in blood sugar. "Regular exercise can help individuals with diabetes to achieve their...

Anyone else do Park Runs? They're 5k runs in a local park, at the weekends, totally free, and they'll time you and publish results later that day. I've just done my first and it was a great experience. I've been going to the gym for over 6 months and running on the treadmill and mostly can...

Physical activity benefits diabetics and others with insulin resistance. One of the reasons is that a single bout of physical activity increases the effectiveness of insulin. Thus, physical activity helps to reduce the risk of developing diabetes, while also reducing the effects of diabetes if...

I am going to try to prevent, and reverse, my slide towards Type 2 diabetes. I have been impressed, in the past, with Dr Michael Mosley's programmes on TV about health. Just been told I am pre-diabetic by my GP. So I want to take control and fight this, instead of taking tablets. This means...

Being type 2 and being under a lot of stress due to where I live, I am struggling to maintain a monitoring schedule. I bought all the equipment, but just haven't gotten around to trying them out. One problem is I am a night person, and so never sure when would be the right time to test with a...

All last week I discovered that my established rules for coping with exercise were failing. Until then I had always experienced significant falls in my blood glucose after cycling to work, so had reduced my pre breakfast bolus and reserved some of my lunch to eat without a bolus just before the...

Hi Guys My name is Ant and I am an active diabetic. Let me tell you about what I did, having travelled alot for work I found it difficult to train, I had gotten out of shape and unfit, so I seen an info-advert for Insanity. Having had enough I completed it after a few false starts. I really...

The instructions that came with my pump said that I should only adjust my basal for exercise of more than 45 minutes' duration. Since I never exercise for that length of time, the only exercise for which I adjust my basal is swimming, because I have to take the pump off. Over the past few...

Hello everybody, great to see such energy and enthusiasm invested in this difficult modern disease, its clearly at epidemic levels and frankly I have wondered if the contagion could really gave reached these levels. Ironically I'm now diagnosed as Type 2 myself. My first investigations into Type...

Exercise helps to alleviate the symptoms of many chronic health conditions such as knee osteoarthritis, low back pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, heart disease and more, yet it is often overlooked as a treatment. A review in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association...

Well, not entirely unexpected. I decided to go for a little run 1 hour after lunch with it being a nice day. Tested BS, was a robust 6.9 - good to go. The intention was to do maybe 40 - 45 mins gentle paced run... But it was such a nice day I got a bit carried away!! 2 hours & 15 minutes later...

Needing some knowledge on these matters. Under a lot of stress here, so tend to rest during the daytime, on and off, and use the night time, quieter then, to make some progress in my life. Been feeling quite lethargic, exhausted really, for some time now, really slowing me down, thirsty...

In patients with type 1 diabetes, glucose amounts necessary to maintain euglycemia during an exercise session follow an inverted U-shaped trajectory, with no external glucose needed at high-intensity exercise, according to recent findings. Vinutha B. Shetty, MD, FRACP, a pediatric...

Anyone who's spent hours slaving away on the treadmill will know that more exercise doesn't always equal more weight lost, and now new research could explain why. Scientists have found that, after a certain point, our bodies seem to adapt to higher activity levels, and actually stop burning...