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Do you find controlling your BSLs a pain in the neck? Do you find some days you can't stop the hypos and other days no matter how little you eat or how much you exercise you can't get that pesky reading below 10mmol/l? Did you ever think that it's something in the air that you breath that is pushing you all over the place? Well, your undercover sleuth YadaYada hit
the streets (ok, the e-streets - so what?) to ask the question no one else has
been game to ask. What makes your levels go haywire? Stress Cortico-steroids Anything that gets the adrenalin going - even a tense, scary, exciting movie! Rebound effect (after a hypo) Vitamin B (except where there is a genuine deficiency in which case the converse can apply) Garlic tablets ?!?! Hot weather Sleep deprivation Waking up - particularly from a mid-afternoon doze. Caffeine it's a stimulant The Precision Glucose Monitor (Exact quote: "bloody Precision makes me #!king furious, which then makes me go up") Going to see a band I really love - no matter how much I dance/ mosh/ skank/ act like a tool Diet AC Cola (you know the cheap stuff from K-Mart) - could it be the caffeine? Exercise - adrenalin! Gelati - you know the creamy one! Hot drinks, either low fat hot chocolate or tea Cycling - while all other exercise sends me down! Sugar free lollies (I don't understand this as they hardly contain any CHOs or sugar) - a lot have sorbitol in them, a form of sugar. Special K Pasta Crazy days/nights (where you forget or ignore insulin) The Downers Prolonged physical work followed by relaxation causes delayed hypo Timing of insulin injection in relation to the GI of associated food Yoga Eating pasta Eating vegetable stirfry for dinner Hot weather (something like 2 or 3 hypos per day) Cold weather Sex makes me low, but only if it's a double session! Compiled with info from: Steve Douglas, Andronicki Pillios, Cathy Daelman, Craig Irvine, Kristi Turner, Dan Seller, Cate King and Karla Dahm |
