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I exercise regularly and always my BS levels drop, I eat to compensate while walking, running, hiking, aerobics classes. However I just started replaying tennis and I am going very high by the end. Really not able to stop and check midway thru a match so do not know when I go high. I wonder if it is an adrnenaline(sp) high and how to compensate. I do wear a CGM but it can not keep up with my changing numbers and so can not use that data. All I can think of to do is try no added carbs, start out at 100 and see where I end up? It looks like I jump around 75 to 100 points in an hour and 15 minutes of actual play. Doubles and active play. Any suggestions?? Thanks. Ali
Kent T
07-01-2009, 10:42 AM
You may be going low and rebounding afterwards. Discuss this with your endo and trainers. If not pumping, may be a good reason to consider due to more flexible management during sport. I have to increase basal slightly before wheelchair tennis and check BG hourly. I hope to have a CGM system of my own soon to assist with basal rate adjustments. Doing this, I can end up 1 hour afterwards at 110 much of the time.
Thanks Kent T, I do use a pump and typically for any exercise longer than 30 minutes I decrease my basal a bit and eat a bit. I did this with tennis and Skyrocketed. Perhaps a rebound. I will need to just keep working at it I guess. I have been injured so not able to accumulate enough days playing tennis with the CGM to se what the pattern might be. Just surprised because with most exercise, even a 30 minute walk, requires that I eat carbs and rarely run high.:)Ali