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Seasonal Changes?

okulyd
okulyd Posts: 147 Member
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I'm not sure why but every year of my diabetes life (since age 7 and I'm 37 now)...I suddenly get a bunch of lows in the fall. Every year it surprises me because I don't know what day it will start but always in the fall I have a bunch of really bad lows when I don't do anything different or unusual in the fall to bring them on. Yesterday I woke up low. Then worked out while eating skittles (12 or so). Started at 40 and finished an hour later at 88. Then blood sugar drops as I drive to work resulting in my over eating calories for the day and being very late for work. I drove several miles out of the way due to poor decision making caused by the low that I didn't realize I was having. Now today I am also suddenly having a low in the middle of the afternoon 47...grrr. Sitting at my computer, so thankfully no poor decision making today. I will be adjusting my basals but I know from the 30 years experience that this bought of lows will only last a few weeks and then my body will go back to normal.

Sorry for the vent. Just annoyed at the moment and wondered if anyone else had similar experiences brought on by change of seasons?

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  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    I'm the opposite. It is more likely to be low in the summer. Here in the midwest, we have very cold winters and very hot summers.

    Fun fact: During the winter months, Minneapolis is the coldest US city... Anchorage is #2. http://www.weather.com/sports-rec/ski-conditions/20-coldest-large-cities-america-20140107?pageno=20

    I'm quite a ways south of Minneapolis, but the point is that there are a lot of midwest cities in the list of the coldest major cities.

    We also have hot and humid summers (extremely humid... I can sweat just sitting still even inside unless the AC is lower than I like to keep it). In fact, it is technically fall and it isn't even that hot, but it is still so humid that I'm sweating while sitting here at home on the computer. I've shut off the AC because I don't want to run it when it isn't that hot... though I could run it strictly to take moisture out of the air, but I don't feel like wasting the energy.

    I feel like the heat and humidity may have a factor in why I am so low all the time in the summer.
  • bikaga
    bikaga Posts: 22 Member
    Yeah, I definitely get seasonal variations... every few months I have to re-adjust, depending on temperatures, activity levels, daylight etc. Talked about it with the nurse at my last appointment and she said a few other people had reported it, too.

    I've only had the pump for a year (been a diabetic for 33) but I've noticed I had to change the basal levels a few times now, sometimes quite drastically, and now I'm back around where I started a year ago ;)

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