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I feel like I have more BG instabilities during summer heat than in the winter cold or during spring or autumn. Today I ate leftover from my b-day cake, wnet out, trained in nature and felt terrible, like the way I feel when my insuline spikes and blood sugar crashes. Is it just me?
Perhaps hot weather makes you exercise less, or the exercise is harder (burns more cals) in the heat, or you eat less in the hot weather, or you drink more caloried liquids in the heat or eat less meat, etc....the sum of the differences could cause your BS to rise or fall...Dehydration probably doesn't account for much of a change (should cause a rise in BS) until it's fairly severe.....and maybe your "feelings" have nothing to do with the actual BS, but just compare to those we all get when it's too hot.
BTW- I get the impression that too many Type II diabetics (non-insulin requiring) on this forum pay way too much attention to minor changes in BS readings-- the minute to minute, hour to hour, even day to day fluctuations just aren't that important. It's the total effect over the course of decades that determines complications....and it's only the complicartions that we should really care about.
why cant you just have a piece of fruit instead of stale birthday cake ?
Can your body tell what kind of food is the source of the sugar? Fruit is just natural candy...or maybe candy is just artificial fruit. Either way, glucose is glucose.
Perhaps hot weather makes you exercise less, or the exercise is harder (burns more cals) in the heat, or you eat less in the hot weather, or you drink more caloried liquids in the heat or eat less meat, etc....the sum of the differences could cause your BS to rise or fall...Dehydration probably doesn't account for much of a change (should cause a rise in BS) until it's fairly severe.....and maybe your "feelings" have nothing to do with the actual BS, but just compare to those we all get when it's too hot.
BTW- I get the impression that too many Type II diabetics (non-insulin requiring) on this forum pay way too much attention to minor changes in BS readings-- the minute to minute, hour to hour, even day to day fluctuations just aren't that important. It's the total effect over the course of decades that determines complications....and it's only the complicartions that we should really care about.
I'm T2 with insulin. I test my blood twice a day everyday and inject at the same times according to a sliding scale. You are not fully correct that "over the decades" determines complications. There are daily risks we have to watch closely for.
If you are caught with an episode when your BG lowers to 3.5 (63 US), it is cause for alarm. Any lower you are in danger of rapidly losing your life. You are too out of it by that time to help yourself and you have passed out and are helpless. Unless someone intervenes and gives you o.j. (example) your brain will die from lack of fuel. The liver does store glucose and releases it just for these kinds of episodes but if the liver can't continue excreting glucose stores (runs out) that's when you are in trouble. That's why it is wise for diabetics to check frequently or however your own body needs to be checked. Everybody gets to know the disease characteristics we each have and acts accordingly. Some people can check every other day, or once a week etc.
I'm T2 with insulin. I test my blood twice a day everyday and inject at the same times according to a sliding scale. You are not fully correct that "over the decades" determines complications. There are daily risks we have to watch closely for.
If you are caught with an episode when your BG lowers to 3.5 (63 US), it is cause for alarm. Any lower you are in danger of rapidly losing your life. You are too out of it by that time to help yourself and you have passed out and are helpless. Unless someone intervenes and gives you o.j. (example) your brain will die from lack of fuel. The liver does store glucose and releases it just for these kinds of episodes but if the liver can't continue excreting glucose stores (runs out) that's when you are in trouble. That's why it is wise for diabetics to check frequently or however your own body needs to be checked. Everybody gets to know the disease characteristics we each have and acts accordingly. Some people can check every other day, or once a week etc.
You are a less common case-- slidng scale coverage is not nearly as common as it was years ago. Of course you need to test frequently-- that's how you determine your dosage.
There's basically only one complication that occurs on a short term schedule-- hypoglyclemia from excessively agressive insulin coverage. "It will take 20 yrs for hi BS to kill you...and 20 seconds for low BS to kill you."...If you noticed, I qualified my previous statement about testing by excluding insulin requiring diabetics.
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