Body clock v GMT clock changes

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As the clocks change back or forwards, does it mess with your body clock - appetites and sugar levels?
It takes a few weeks to regain equilibrium for my mum.
 
Seabreeze said:
As the clocks change back or forwards, does it mess with your body clock - appetites and sugar levels?
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Doesn't for me, no. It's only an hour, after all. (And usually when I go on holiday the time difference is only an hour or two. Almost always the travel makes vastly more difference, since it often seems to involve getting up at some ungodly time to get to wait hours in the airport.)
 
Bruce Stephens said:
Doesn't for me, no. It's only an hour, after all. (And usually when I go on holiday the time difference is only an hour or two. Almost always the travel makes vastly more difference, since it often seems to involve getting up at some ungodly time to get to wait hours in the airport.)
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Perhaps its a geriatric thing.
 
Might be just psychological should not make a difference. Change the clocks when she`s asleep.
 
It doesn't mess with my appetitites and sugar levels, but because I have sleep reversal (I'm an owl and due to neurological illness I'm incapable of not being an owl) March is an absolute nightmare for me in terms of sleep patterns, and it takes me months (yes, that's not a typo, I said months) to get used to it. October's great though! I am much more functional in the winter, when I can sleep in a pattern that's closer to my body clock's requirements, than in summer, when I have permanent "social jetlag" (attempting to sleep at times not natural for my body clock in order to fit in with the times other people want to do things).
 
KARNAK said:
Might be just psychological should not make a difference. Change the clocks when she`s asleep.
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Too funny.....!

No it isn't psychological. Mealtimes are an hour earlier or an hour later.
 
Doesn’t make the slightest difference to me. Go to sleep when I’m tired, wake up whenever. The clocks on all the digital kit change automatically anyway. The cordless landline phones will change when I ring myself using the mobile. My BG doesn’t give a toss either way.:D
 
Have just checked my daughter and she's low, 3.3 on the Libre. Now it could be that she was going to go low anyway, but of course I'm also wondering if it might be because I changed the time on her pump just after she went to bed (so that I wouldn't forget about it), which meant that she got an extra hour of a high basal rate. I'll never know, will I!

Mealtimes being an hour out won't make any difference however, we eat much later at weekends than during the week, and it doesn't usually cause a problem. Being on a pump she can eat whenever she likes and doesn't have to stick to a strict routine. When she was younger it used to take her a few weeks to adjust to bedtime shifting, but I think now she's a bit older that won't make much difference either (and we are now on half term so she's got a week to get used to it before we go back to school!)
 
KARNAK said:
Might be just psychological should not make a difference. Change the clocks when she`s asleep.
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I used to change clocks before I went to bed so I could ignore the whole kaboodle. I get knocked off with change of clocks, but it’s always been so

Years and years ago, I almost got beaten to a pulp(lol) as I went round nurses home in a panic waking everyone up when clocks had changed. Oops, at least no one slept in
 
Varied responses!
It doesn't affect me, but my mum's body clock is out of kilter for a couple of weeks, not noticed it affecting her blood sugars.
 
I got back from Spain last night and moved my watch back one hour and had to do it again when I got up this morning, my phone and iPad do it there selves. So I am jet lagged! Joking! Like @mikeyB I get up when I want to and eat when I am hungry, which to be fair is now, 10.30, so must still be on Spanish time! Where’s that paella? :D
 
grovesy said:
Could the blood sugars be more to do to change in weather as many also find this has an effect .
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Blood sugars are stable, just wondered if it affected anyone else's, pardon my curiosity, not being diabetic myself.
I've concluded it's the ageing body clock adjusting.
 
Well, I've spent most of the last two days hypo (according to my Libre, I think I've been hypo today more than I've been not hypo, but this sensor is a little under my real bgls, most disconcerting as my last one was quite a bit above them)! However, I'd put that down to the colder weather rather than to the clocks going back, as it happens to me every year when the weather starts to get colder, and that could be any time in September, October, or November, not always the last weekend in October!
 
You shouldn’t really depend on a Libre reading if you are outside in the cold, not so much because it affects the sensor, but the blood supply in your skin is much reduced to maintain body temperature. Readings will probably be shown as low as a result.
 
I'm not outside in the cold, Mike, just saying my blood sugar is always lower in winter than in summer. And don't worry, I'm not depending on Libre readings at all, just being a bit disconcerted by a graph which is more than half red! 😱

I think I've had two actual hypos today, but it may have been three, as the Libre thinks I was hypo before I got up and my meter thinks I was 4.2 just after I got up. In fact my meter's had me hovering around 4 all day, whereas my Libre's had me hovering around 2.5!
 
Bah, make that three actual hypos and maybe four, I had another one just after I posted the above.
 
Time for a bit of basal adjustment? I’m fiddling with my basal at the moment. It’s like trying to herd cats:confused:
 
Yes, I know the feeling. I put my basal down half a unit last night and I still spent half the day with a red graph again - I think another three actual hypos. I'll leave it a couple of days and put it down a bit more if it doesn't settle.
 
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