Comment by Unknown Diabetic on October 27, 2012 at 5:38am

Good job Jen! After exercise my Bg always goes up also. Good luck with figuring this out.

Comment by acidrock23 on October 27, 2012 at 6:36am

That's tough to have to rely on public transportation to do swimming! Way to go!! When I started running, I'd turn my pump way down (7%, because 7 is lucky. Or 13%) or off more often. These days I don't do that as much as it seems likely to lead to highs more often than not. I haven't figured any of my "numbers" out but I figure if the unit for a basal drops me 40 points or so, if I skip an hour of basal (really, .8U but whatever...) that would boost things about 40 points. I think that having a little bit of insulin can help. I'd probably have corrected the 176 but cut the bolus to 1/3 of the normal amount, to "cover" the exercise? I love to eat when I'm done so I sort of try to engineer a decent number to be set up for that. I'm not shy about bolusing during exercise, often very small boluses. I did several .3U at a time during the marathon, they didn't work that fast (Gatorade on board too...) but eventually, when it started to come down, it seemed to be a pretty soft landing. I think the 176 to 164 to 126 numbers swimming are GREAT results though. Very flat for 1/2 hour and then the drop, which could be managed very nicely with a small snack if it were say 150-140-110 or something a bit lower on the scale!

Comment by Jen on October 27, 2012 at 8:56am

I think it was okay during swimming, could have been better afterward! I was 14.5 (261) at 10:45 which I corrected fully, and then 16.6 (299) at 1:00 which I also corrected fully, and then 11.8 (212) at 3:00 which I also corrected fully (minus IOB of course). Then I was finally 4.2 (76) when waking up at 9:00. I think my A1c is going to go up from exercising if this keeps happening! LOL.

Comment by acidrock23 on October 27, 2012 at 1:29pm

I don't exercise for my BG, I exercise for my heart rate!! It's great to go to the doctor and the nurse takes my pulse, usually after I'm weighed, in clothes, which sucks as it adds 7 lbs, and goes "your pulse is 52, do you run?" instead of "you have DIABETES" and it always makes me happy to be a "runner" rather than a "person with diabetes," although I'm sort of proud of that too...

Comment by nel on October 28, 2012 at 9:01pm

Jen , I may have missed this but have you tried immediately after your exercise given a minimal bolus ??? ...different number for all of us ..

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