| Hi All
Right, I checked my blood glucose immediately before swimming and immediately after, and it turns out I was in the pool for exactly two hours, though if I break it down I probably spent about 60 mins actually swimming, 30 mins just diving around and floating about, and then 30mins in the jacuzzi. I probably did about thirty lengths of the pool in total, but not all at once - I am trying to get fit, I'm not fit yet!
JJ - useful to know that someone else gets through a lot of sugar, I know when I was at school when I was first diagnosed I was supposed to eat a mini-Mars before doing football/rugby/cross country, so I thought getting through entire packs of fruit pastilles was bad! I know that sugar drinks are better, as I said I have only just started swimming again, and I was going to get one at the sports centre, but no way was I going to pay £1.50 for the privilege - I am going to get one next time I'm in town (wow, I'm starting to sound like Im going to take this up regularly). I might try the banana idea - but I am prejudiced against it as I hypothesise that if a pack of wine gums isnt going to give me a blood sugar then a banana is even less likely to?
One problem I did notice while checking my blood sugar in the pool (not literally) was water - the whole place was wet, once I dried my finger it managed to get wet in between then and doing the test, and the fact that my skins all swollen from the overexposure to water. Anyone got any solutions to that?
The reason I started swimming is because my mum does it (though she does it every day at 6:30am in addition to some afternoons, and she knows I'm diabetic and will check on me every half hour or so, if I did need pulling out the pool I'm sure she'd notice and let the lifeguards know. I'm not a liability to myself (at least I don't think so)
I did have a 'proper' hypo in a swimming pool in Wales once, and it was the scariest hypo I've had, and the only one I can actually remember anything about despite drifting in and out of consciousness (normally I cant remember anything that happens up until the moment I wake up and theres a paramedic standing over me).
Just for the record:
12 Jan 23:09 9.2
13 Jan 8:24 4.6
13 Jan 10:40 2.8
13 Jan 12:33 5.8
13 Jan 15:07 3.7
13 Jan 16:08 5.3 (Pre Swim, but before the winegums would have entered my bloodstream)
13 Jan 18:08 3.3 (Post Swim)
13 Jan 20:36 8.7
13 Jan 21:42 6.7
13 Jan 22:35 6.4
13 Jan 23:36 5.4
14 Jan 7:55 5.8  | 
