Ok please only answer if you have Type 1 Diabetes.
Do you ever go for a run of about 3 miles and get low, if so did you feel that you were low easier than you would feel it if you were at rest? Did it ever go undetected?
How low do you have to be to pass out?
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Nov 2009
Please Answer If You Have Type 1 Diabetes?
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No, Blue eyes, you aren’t BORN with t1 it is caused by a virus that attacks your immune system, which, in turn attacks your pancreas by mistake. I’ve never run THREE miles, but I know that exercise DOES make me go low faster than if I were just sitting there. You can pass out if you stay too low too long, like below 30 or so. The lowest I have been was 38, and that happened in the middle of the night. What insulin regimin are you on? Log/NPH, Lantus or Levimir/Log, or are you pumping? I’m pumping and so when I exercise I lower my basal.
I am not a runner, but I am a type 1 diabetic and I do walk three or more miles daily. Personally i detect low blood sugars better when I am at rest that when I am moving around. If I go low while walking, I usually don’t notice until a few minutes after I have stopped. As far as how low you have to be to pass out, it varies. I have gone unconscious too many times because of lows and once my bg was in the 40′s. However I have been fully conscious and gotten readings in the 20′s before too. Thanks to the pump, those scary lows are few and far between now.
Yes a lot of exercise will make you go low if you jog everyday then you could consider lowering your 24 hour dose (if you are on the 4 a day) as this will help or simply eat an energy bar half way through your run
Blue Eyes:
Most people with type 1 are NOT born with it. I just shot your answer to hell because I got type 1 when I was 26…and it was the result of injuries sustained in a car accident. Type 1 usually develops in the childhood and teen years…sometimes in the 20s and 30s (rarely). I have been working in healthcare half my life…and I have only seen 5 or 6 cases that were diagnosed in infancy.
As for the original question, I don’t run anymore (knees have suffered enough abuse) but I do walk and swim. I always make sure my sugar is stable beforehand and I program my pump with a temporary basal rate to give me a little less insulin while I’m exercising.
A low has never snuck by me unattended. The lowest I ever made it to before losing consciousness was an estimated 20. That has only happened once (passing out, that is) in all the years I’ve had diabetes.
EMT
Type 1, insulin pump
I work for endocrinologist and if you have type 1 Diabetes you were born with it. otherwise it is type 2 even if you have to take insulin. ( OF COURSE a dr would need to diagnose you)
and you would surely feel low after a run over rest, after burning off that energy. food is the bodies energy, so it would be normal to feel bad from low blood sugar. eat some protein.
well…i cant answer the first question because i’ve never went for a 3 mile run. i’ve had lows that i dont notice until my BS is in the upper 40′s…thats without changing my daily activity/routine. nobody can really give a clear answer for how low you have to be to pass out because everyones different. i’ve been around 41 or 42 and was able to treat it by myself just as anyother low…for some people 41 or 42 might be low enough to pass out.
Blue Eyes: yea you might be born with type 1…but it might “lay low” until something triggers it…it would still be type 1 though
first off…Type I diabetes, you can be born with diabetes, you can also get it by your immune system being attacked, or you can get it like myself, whom had a accident at five years old and ruptured my pancareas and it just decided to stop working after that. As for the question I do get low sometime when i’m working out hard. My endo and suggested for every 20 minutes of exercise eat and extra serving of carbs (15grams) with a protein. My old faithful is graham crackers with peanut butter. As for when you will pass out, each individual is different. Your body my be able to tolerate it better than the next. It all depends on how sensitive you are. I wouldn’t push it though to how low it can get :O)
good qustion.. Im not sure
Activity of course makes your blood sugar go low, which is why typically a physician would tell you to monitor your blood sugar when working out. My blood sugar tends to go low a lot more when I am active (I wear an insulin pump, and often times I suspend the insulin or take the pump off during extreme activity). When I was younger (I am 29 and have had diabetes for 21 years), a lot of my lows went undetected, now I can feel them coming on. Different people, even at different times can pass out at different blood sugar levels. I have had my blood sugar at 37, and remember checking my blood. Sometimes when it is 50 I feel as though I won’t be able to eat.