Time Zone vs DP

[moorejames]

I recently spent a week in Hawaii.

Ignoring the fact that I participated heavily in the "eat, drink and be merry" portion of the program (which screwed up my numbers somewhat) I found it interesting that the time zone change seems to have affected my dawn phenomenon.

With the 6 hour tome difference, I was going to bed/getting up at times very different from what I was used to.

Once we got back and I got back on the work schedule, my fasting BG #'s have never been better. I've been under 100 FBG (low 90s) ever since getting back. Normally, I struggled to stay around 112, prior to the trip.

Just wonder if anyone else had notices a change in DP when you switched time zones.

I'm thinking the week of the earlier time zone somewhat "reset" my internal clock.

I don't test enough to see if I'm getting a DP effect at a different time of day, however.

I expect things will "revert back to the mean" at some point and I'll be back where I was.

Maybe I just need to spend a week in Hawaii once a quarter in order to keep the DP at bay. Yeah, that's it... I'll get a prescription for it...


jim

[Cyborg]

That's really not that much of a difference in bg numbers...

I have extreme DP and I have never noticed a difference when going from one coast to the other (3 hours time difference). I simply change the clock on my pump and proceed as normal.

[princesslinda]

Jim, great that you're having less trouble with DP....greater still that you went to Hawaii. Was it all you expected? How were your #'s while "eating, drinking and being merry?" I've found that if i'm out having fun on vacation, even if i'm not as diligent as usual in carb counting, my #'s are still good...I have always assumed it's those "changes in lattitude/changes in attitude" concepts.

[moorejames]

This was our second trip there (Big Island). It was all paid for by a company I represent, so you can't beat the price (the most expensive part of the trip was the kennel bill; my parents kept the kids.)

The few times i tested, my numbers weren't terrible or anything, despite my best efforts, but we WERE pretty active (took a backcountry waterfall hike, snorkled with sea turtles).

-Cyborg, I'm almost NEVER under 100, so it might not seem like much of a difference in numbers, but it's fairly unprecedented :)

[volleyball]

I think the vacation part was the big factor. No stress, new surroundings and all that exercise you were not use to. Or the lack of pets and kids.;) Never been to Maui but I did live on Oahu for years.