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04-04-2008, 10:16 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Omaha, NE.
Posts: 23
| | | Poker and Diabetes?
I have only been diagnosed for about 16 months now and am still figuring out how my body reacts to different situations. What I have found is that playing poker actually raises my blood sugars. I always wondered why i could go to the casino and play a tournament and start playing with my BS around 110 and finish over 275, in about 3 hours. It baffled me because I did not have any insulin on board. Well I did some research and poker situations can cause alot of adrenaline, especially if you are bluffing. With adrenaline come the regergitation of sugar into the blood stream compliments of yours truly, your liver. Great... now playing poker is bad for my health. What will they come up with next, a sugarfree donut???
__________________ Bob Loblaw Type 1 since 12/06 32 years old PUMPING SINCE 5/6/8
MINIMed
3/20/08 A1C = 6.6
1/20/08 A1C = 7.3
diagnosis 12/06 = 12.3
Alcohol free since 10/07
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04-04-2008, 11:41 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Mind -Langhorne PA Heart - The Shenandoah Valley
Posts: 634
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Originally Posted by willie4004  What will they come up with next, a sugarfree donut??? | They have and it causes diabetes 
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04-05-2008, 03:38 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 473
| | Why don't you have a snack with correction or just a correction half way thro your session, would reduce those highs. Poker is usualy bad for my wallet never mind my health |
04-05-2008, 04:12 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,231
| | Stress! Stress causes BGs to rise. I guess you just don't have that poker body. A good player will be able to smell when you are bluffing 
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04-05-2008, 04:48 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway
Posts: 114
| | | Haha, a good way to tell if a diabetic is bluffing is to see how much insulin he injects! |
04-05-2008, 05:13 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,101
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Originally Posted by viranth Haha, a good way to tell if a diabetic is bluffing is to see how much insulin he injects! | Needs a pump to hide his tell.
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04-05-2008, 08:29 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Federal Way, Wa
Posts: 688
| | | I work in a casino and im just loving this thread. We get a few diabetics that play poker. Every once in a while, you will see one of them get up and pull their "pens" out of their pockets as they head for the restroom. Usually just before a meal too. |
04-05-2008, 12:49 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marina del Rey, CA
Posts: 90
| | | I play online poker often, but at the FREE sites, and even then I can understand the stress of it all. I would love to one day attend one of the WSOP events even as a spectator I am sure the pressure of the "Live" event is insane.
Would be funny to see someone at a table, wave his hand and before he raises ask if they mind if he could take his insulin :P
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A1C:
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10/17/07 9.1
01/24/08 8.6
04/02/08 7.5
04/22/08 7.1
06/11/08 6.0
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05-15-2008, 10:21 PM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 385
| | | great thread
i love poker. i also cant wait to get a chance to play in the wsop.
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