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Good morning @CrackOnJohn and welcome to the forum.

Strategies for managing exercise will depend on what insulin regime you are using. If you are happy to do so it will help us if you can tell us whether you are on injections or pump, which insulin(s) you are using.

I will flag @Northerner who has lots of experience with running and there will be many others on here with experience. More generally for exercise I use a variety of strategies depending on the time of day that I exercise and when this is in relation to my meals.

I look forward to hearing more from you.
 
I honestly didn’t really vary my diet pre or post run other than to be aware of the impact of foodstuffs on my digestion.

I also didn’t really listen to my body when I was injured hence the reason why I’m not having scans frequently and can’t currently walk without a cane and an ankle brace.

It’ll get better over time though and then I’ll be back to park runs but much much slower than before!

There are quite a few of us in here who run or jog regularly.

What sort of questions do you have in mind?
 
Hello Cherrelle, SB2015 and ColinUK,
Thanks for the welcome. Since signing up yesterday I've found some useful information in the volumes of previous posts and comments. I'm on injections of Levemir (first thing and last thing) and pre-meal NovoRapid and like most/many now am using one of the life-changing monitoring systems - Libre FreeStyle in my case.
I'd been running weekly, simply for exercise, for about 10 years, but over the past 18 months have been training to improve my 5 km times. So, this means runs almost daily but with varying intensity - sometimes 20+ minutes of sprints and a bit of warm-up/cool-down, and sometimes an hour-plus of slow running. I count carbs with reasonable accuracy and generally will either lower my NovoRapid by one or two units ahead of a meal, or if I'm going out more than two hours after a meal, I'll take on extra carbohydrate - the aim being to have a reading of about 12 mmol/l before I start - and after an intense 5km run, I will generally end up at around 7mmol/l. Sometimes, though, after exercising I'm way out - and have yet to fully understand how I may be impacted several hours after exercise.
After trawling previous posts I realise that I should treat these different types of running as different types of exercise (doh🙄) - and this might also explain why I sometimes have low Libre sensor readings at night.
I've been going through www.runsweet.com, which was signposted in the forum, and ordered the Diabetic Athlete's Handbook.
One tip I will use immediately is taking on carbs while running - seems such an obvious thing to do.
Secondly, I'm going to explore reducing the basal shots - on days when I know I'll be 10 or so hours sitting down for work I increase the Levemir by two units in the morning. I've also had a similar experience on walking holidays, where I've significantly reduced the background insulin.
Finally - it seems clear to be that I should have joined the forum years ago .... :rofl:
 
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Hi and welcome from me too.

Seems like you are well on your way to solving the questions you came to the forum with from reading back posts, so I just wanted to add another friendly greeting. So pleased that you have eventually found us..... What kept you?? 😉
 
The effect of exercise on BG lasts up to 48 hours thereafter, but of course it's very variable much as everything is when you happen to have diabetes - hence we all have to learn by what our own body informs us. Thing about forums is that whatever it happens to be - by asking, we get the benefit of what other people's bodies have told them so have a selection of things to try without having to think of them ourselves - and when we haven't a clue to start off with as to what might work - it's comforting to know we aren't alone!
 
trophywench said:
The effect of exercise on BG lasts up to 48 hours thereafter, but of course it's very variable much as everything is when you happen to have diabetes - hence we all have to learn by what our own body informs us. Thing about forums is that whatever it happens to be - by asking, we get the benefit of what other people's bodies have told them so have a selection of things to try without having to think of them ourselves - and when we haven't a clue to start off with as to what might work - it's comforting to know we aren't alone!
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48hrs after is stretching imagination for moderate exercise, don't know where that come from though heard it.mentioned before.
 
@rebrascora - you asked 'what kept you?' - I can't recall now, but the bliss of ignorance will likely have played a large part. I'm now discovering answers to questions that had been filed away in the deep recesses of my mind, possibly never to be addressed. I'm making up for lost time, though. Thanks all
 
Wait till you start discovering the questions that you never even thought of let alone discovering answers to the ones that you did, but managed to ignore!
Who knew there was so much to know! 🙄
 
@trophywench - thank you for highlighting this, helps understand what's going on. For years I'd only been thinking of immediately before and up to an hour after running/exercising. When I played squash, which I've stopped for the past five years - before Libre CGM, I found blood sugars could quickly crash for hours afterwards.
Still learning - better late, than never :D
Thanks,
John
 
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