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Running with type 1 diabetes? Here’s how to regulate your blood glucose levels
3 years ago
2 min read
Living with type 1 diabetes? While insulin pumps and flash glucose monitors have made navigating exercise easier, low glucose episodes can be common when out running.
For my entire childhood, I had a perfectly clean bill of health. I barely visited the GP and was rarely ill. Then, at 17, I began to experience debilitating fatigue, intense aches and pains in my legs and incessant thirst. I lost two stone rapidly and my periods stopped for almost seven months.
After four months of unrelenting trips to the doctor, I finally got some answers. Administering a basic finger prick check, my doctor monitored my blood glucose levels to find that they were almost 10 times higher than what’s deemed ‘healthy’. I was quickly sent to the hospital, where I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. My new life began in a sea of insulin, needles and sleepless nights. I was ill-prepared, to say the least.
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