Diabetes Mishap: Letting Blood Sugar Run High to Avoid the Lows

By Ginger Vieira, Health Guide Wednesday, September 05, 2007

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Everybody does it...or at least that's what I told myself. I'd gotten away with doing it for several months: purposefully letting my blood sugars run high because I hate having lows. I'd developed this bad habit one year ago, during a summer where I was filling all of my free ti...

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Susan Shaw

9/ 7/07 10:33am

Hey Ginger: What a great blog and so much courage to be totally honest. I have done exactly the same thing for long periods of time. Let us all know what happens and how it goes as you try to keep your sugars lower while doing a lot of exercise.

momof08

9/ 8/07 9:36am

This is one of the most informative and useful bits of info I've read--thanks!

Jeff

3/10/09 12:46pm

You are completely correct, T1 diabetic folks who exercise, do and should run higher than the textbook "target" at the gym to prevent lows thereby. Consider this, to get an A1C of 8 you have to be running higher than you realized consistantly.

A single reading of 200 something at the gym is NOT going to skew your overall reading meaningfully. The rest of the day you aimed for (hit?) your target, only at the gym, you aimed higher. After the gym you play catch-up, when its necessary. A normal karate class lowers me a hundred points very consistantly regardless of the particular exercises.

Hope you're approach works for you, think your doctor is ~playing games~ with you though. In the real world, real diabetics sometimes go higher for a perfectly valid purpose. And no ~checking~ during is necessary.

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