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Cutting grass

Woodywoodpecker

Woodywoodpecker

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Hi been to cemetery give it a tidy up, cut the grass round it with small hand held cutter. Got back in car checked Libre going down fast, then alarm went off, so had couple off jelly babies and waited till it came back up. Does anyone find they go low quickly when doing very little. Had lunch at 12.30 45 carbs took 5 units, was about 2 when I went low
 
is it possible it could be stress related as well
 
gail2 said:
is it possible it could be stress related as well
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I never thought off that, not been keen on driving since diagnosis. Cemetery not that far but bit isolated, my stomach was going driving there but once there ok. Is it 5 to drive
 
Working in the garden and or cutting grass always drops me. I would probably have reduced my lunchtime bolus if I knew I was going to be doing physical activity after lunch.
 
You can drive between 4 and 5 provided you eat some carbs, but once you drop below 4 you are timed out for 45 mins after you come back up and check that with a finger prick because it will usually take Libre another half an hour longer to show you have come up.
 
rebrascora said:
You can drive between 4 and 5 provided you eat some carbs, but once you drop below 4 you are timed out for 45 mins after you come back up and check that with a finger prick because it will usually take Libre another half an hour longer to show you have come up.
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Thank you
 
Woodywoodpecker said:
Hi been to cemetery give it a tidy up, cut the grass round it with small hand held cutter. Got back in car checked Libre going down fast, then alarm went off, so had couple off jelly babies and waited till it came back up. Does anyone find they go low quickly when doing very little. Had lunch at 12.30 45 carbs took 5 units, was about 2 when I went low
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If that 5u went into your arms then any activity using them will speed up insulin absorption.

Can spend half a day in gardens weeding digging cutting grass, even when reducing previous bolus & reducing basal delivery I can still drop low so sometimes need to top up bg with biscuit or two.
 
nonethewiser said:
If that 5u went into your arms then any activity using them will speed up insulin absorption.

Can spend half a day in gardens weeding digging cutting grass, even when reducing previous bolus & reducing basal delivery I can still drop low so sometimes need to top up bg with biscuit or two.
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Was my stomach I injected, noticed go quite low walking dog as well. Will have to lower dose thank you
 
Same for me, mowing the lawn will always make BG drop - much more so than doing the same duration riding a bike. I think it's the combination of low stress/easy exercise which hits the sweetspot. Perhaps I should mow my lawn every morning to head-off FotF! 🙂
 
I enjoy mowing the lawn but as I don't wear a CGM I am not sure how much it affects my BG. It's a self propelled model so mostly walking and steering but around 6k steps including walking to the compost bays to empty the grass collector a few times. The only time it set my heart racing was with a previous mower. First time we bought a self propelled version and hubby forgot to tell me. I thought 'what does thus lever do?' Then it dragged me at maximum speed into the nearby flower border as I eeked and panicked. 😱 Finally realised I needed to let go to make it stop :rofl:
 
Any gardening sends me low so I find I need a reduction in insulin beforehand, and top ups through the day (good excuse for a plain chocolate biscuit from the fridge!!!).
Glad you managed it well @Woodywoodpecker .
 
My garden is too vertiginous for grass (I can look over the top of my house from the top tier) but that means any gardening requires lots of up and down which usually means my BG goes down.
Unfortunately, my long weekend was kicked off with sneezing and sniffing and coughing and aching. One habit I have maintained since the pandemic is to avoid spreading infection when I am ill. So, I spent the last two days indoors feeling sorry for myself. But maintaining a good BG.
Today, I decided I was well enough to venture outside but still don't want to risk anyone else catching my cold/flu/covid from me so I only ventured as far as the garden for some "tidying". Whilst this was light gardening (no digging), lopping off a few branches from the overhanging hornbeam, hacking back the ever growing ivy and "lowering" the dogwood, are all enough to reduce my BG ... normally. However, my body is still deploying glucose to battle the lurgy and my BG rose in the garden.
At least the deployment appears to be winning - the aching is no more but the lurgy is still generating an eternal quota of snot. The battle continues but I will win the war!
 
Anything where I am using my arms lots / lifting will send me plummeting. Even if I'm having a stubborn high day, the moment I start moving boxes around or pushing a hoover around, my BG will drop. However walking or general cardio doesn't have the same effect, which I find very interesting.
 
Lauren said:
Anything where I am using my arms lots / lifting will send me plummeting. Even if I'm having a stubborn high day, the moment I start moving boxes around or pushing a hoover around, my BG will drop. However walking or general cardio doesn't have the same effect, which I find very interesting.
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Does that mean you can balance out the carbs in bread by kneading your next loaf?
 
helli said:
My garden is too vertiginous for grass (I can look over the top of my house from the top tier) but that means any gardening requires lots of up and down which usually means my BG goes down.
Unfortunately, my long weekend was kicked off with sneezing and sniffing and coughing and aching. One habit I have maintained since the pandemic is to avoid spreading infection when I am ill. So, I spent the last two days indoors feeling sorry for myself. But maintaining a good BG.
Today, I decided I was well enough to venture outside but still don't want to risk anyone else catching my cold/flu/covid from me so I only ventured as far as the garden for some "tidying". Whilst this was light gardening (no digging), lopping off a few branches from the overhanging hornbeam, hacking back the ever growing ivy and "lowering" the dogwood, are all enough to reduce my BG ... normally. However, my body is still deploying glucose to battle the lurgy and my BG rose in the garden.
At least the deployment appears to be winning - the aching is no more but the lurgy is still generating an eternal quota of snot. The battle continues but I will win the war!
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Least uve had productive day
Lauren said:
Anything where I am using my arms lots / lifting will send me plummeting. Even if I'm having a stubborn high day, the moment I start moving boxes around or pushing a hoover around, my BG will drop. However walking or general cardio doesn't have the same effect, which I find very interesting.
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Im Like that with hoover as well, hubby now does it one less job for me
 
I find that gardening makes me drop too. The speed is so quick sometimes that by the time I’ve gone inside, washed my hands and fingerpricked my libre will be telling me I’m 3. something, though fingerprick is higher.
Jelly babies have become part of my gardening gear!
 
I’ve got a graph like 2 camels humps today, don’t know what’s happened the day. The more I’ve rushed about and walked, the higher it’s got
 
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