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Permalink Reply by karenpat on August 9, 2011 at 10:29pm

Once I had 9 point something (162 if I did the math correctly) and after I'd worked out for 10-15 mins I started feeling a bit woozy and I had 2.8 (50.4). I don't know if it was just something about that day but now I always eat a biscuit before working out if it's below 10 (180).

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Permalink Reply by Brian (bsc) on August 10, 2011 at 4:28am

My blood sugar generally does up when I do exercise.

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Permalink Reply by nel on August 13, 2011 at 5:52pm

I had a sense , the reason why 14 minutes of exercise is mentioned in the Big Blue Test ..is related to the Birthday of Dr. Banting ( November 14 ) ; I never took it literally meaning doing 14 minutes of exercise and that's it ...then stop !
I would think , that there are millions of reasons ( so to speak ) why the answer to the question of this discussion will be so different ...even for me from one day to another .

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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on August 13, 2011 at 6:19pm

wasn't there a Big Blue Test Thing where you were supposed to test, exercise for 14 minutes and enter the drop or something like that? 7:30 is about the fastest I've run a mile so I don't think I can quite get two in that timeframe but it can be fun to do wierd experiements like that?

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Permalink Reply by ella01 on August 15, 2011 at 2:00pm

15 minutes, how annoying is that how can you loose wight if your always shoving carbs into your gob!!!
Am a swimmer, I have not worked out to manage the non-hypos after a few laps of the pool. Ellaxx

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Permalink Reply by Mandie_T1 on August 16, 2011 at 12:11am

7 minutes is the fastest I've had. I was 350. Danced to Jai Ho, dropped to 287. I'd done half a correction before dancing.

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Permalink Reply by heathersf on August 16, 2011 at 2:22pm

My BG goes up; only incrimentally but it does go up. I am just starting my exercise routine, I've been walking 2 miles a day, 3-4 times per week plus Zumba twice a week for an hour. Walking pace is about 14 minutes per mile. I have seen a 5-10lb weight loss since my dx in the first week of June, 2011. I fluctuate between 3-5lbs any given day.

I feel lightheaded and somewhat dizzy sometimes when I'm exerting a lot of energy and I just "know" I'm low--turns out I'm much higher than I suspect.

I am a newly dx'd T1, NOT on the pump.

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Permalink Reply by Jason_D on August 19, 2011 at 12:47pm

Last night, I had some pizza. At the 3 hour mark I was 225 (apparently I missed the carbs by a unit or so.) I got pissed, put on my shoes, ran/walked about 50/50% of the time.I got back to the house and only 15 minutes had gone by. Tetsed and it was 103.

So about 120 points in 15 minutes worth of cardio.

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Permalink Reply by heathersf on August 19, 2011 at 1:12pm

Wow. I guess that's where I'm totally missing my mark....I'm not doing Cardio. I wonder if I'm even doing any good by walking.

Sorry, I'm having a frustrated kind of day.....

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Permalink Reply by madmarin77 on August 24, 2011 at 9:06am

Walking can be just as beneficial as running... Don't stop. The goal is just to get
Your heart rate elevated consistently for 30-45 minutes 3-4 x per week.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth Evans on August 19, 2011 at 1:34pm

i suspend my pump before exercise. i generally start my cardo/weight lifting regime at a blood sugar of around 100. i work out for one hour. My drop occurs with in ten minutes following the end of exercise.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart on August 20, 2011 at 5:59am

Hello Manny:

There is an exercise done in many styles of Okinawan/Japanese karate called "Sanchin Kata". There are many ways to demonstrate it, a how do you like YOUR eggs type of thing? However, many (most?) are done in an obscene vein-popping almost circus like SEVERE melodramatic fashion. Crowds love seeing it that way.

This exercise in its most fundamental pieces does several things. Though the physical movements of the exercise itself has truly only two, three flavors... it lasts a grand total of maybe a minute, minute and a half regardless of which particular version. It is an exercise which typically uses a VERY audible breathing pattern which literally scares many people who encounter it by accident, not knowing/understanding what they have come accross. It sounds spooky. But the manner most (not all) perform it every single muscle in the body is contracted tightly in the same manner one might squeezing the last water from a sponge. Combined, the exercise ACTIVELY triggers the adrenaline system and floods the body with "stress" horemones. Adrenaline, cortisol, etc., etc.

Performed strenously you can get a dangerous fast drop because of the zealous (severely melodramatic) effort. Real, real fast you will get a severe spike real quick because the adrenaline system has its emergency switch thrown, and the body is flooded dumping the bloodstream with whatever sugar it can find, locate, break down per the fight or flight response which the adrenaline system produces.

I'll post some links of examples if I can find a a couple of good ones.

Stuart

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