elevated Blood sugar levels after exercise

[churchlady1]

Why is it that sometimes my blood sugar levels rise after walking. First thing in the morning,about an hour after exercise and not eating anything my b/s level goes up by about 4-5 points.

[BluWillo31]

if after 2 hrs your blood sugar is below 140 your blood sugar is fine, it will still gradually increase but even after 5 hrs your blood sugar was still fairly low but my guess is you should probably eat lunch a little sooner and put a light low carb snack in between lunch and dinner because for me when my body thinks i'm starving my sugar spikes even at night when i'm sleeping and haven't eaten in hours.. so when i get up i have to eat right away and take my meds and before i do any exercise cause much like everyone above my blood sugar spikes when i exercise.. about 50 points or so.... also to Thee_Mayor the reason your blood sugar spiked is because you had bread.. high glycemic foods even for prediabetics is a major no no.. white bread is a definite no eater and even eating low glycemic foods like whole grain breads you still have to be careful and eat small amounts like 1 slice also as i said above not eating or going long periods in between eating can spike a diabetics sugar cause the body thinks yer starving and tries to compensate. they recommend diabetics eat several small meals a day instead of 3 big ones. if a pre diabetic gets there selves on track they can prevent diabetes and if a diabetic can get there selves on track early they can rid there selves of diabetes but its not easy and it takes a lot of work and u have to maintain it cause it can easily come back if u dont.

[EmpathyRocks]

Can anyone explain my situation? I am a Type 2 diabetic. I took Metformin for two years, and for the past five years I've tried to manage it with diet only (Schwarzbein). Mostly my AICs have been around 6, but then I did worse with carbs and my last test 3 months ago was 7.2. I went on the Atkins diet then, mostly 20-30 gms of carbs per day, except for 27 of those days I might have had an average of 75 gms of carbs. My question is about never having low blood sugar times (I probably never go under 100) yet I can have a spike in blood sugar five hours after eating, without going under 100. I have morning highs most of the time as well. Yesterday I ate ate 7 gms of carbs at lunch at 3:30, tested 112 at 4:15, 112 at 4:58, 125 at 6:07 (no exercise), had 7 gms of carbs at dinner at 7:20 pm, tested 129 at 8:22, 130 at 9:54, and 147 at 12:30 am.

[kumar53]

Excercise can also increase glucose need. In type2 diabetes, insulin resistance is there inspite of more insuin is there. One action of insulin is that it resist breakdown of energy stores--glycogen, fats etc.Near the constant insulin(own or injected) can remain present in insulin resistant cases. If diabetic need more glucose on excercising and if there is resistance in energy store breakdown as above, how body will get glocose for some urgent/excess need?? I just feel, probably body tend to maintain it by keeping higher glucose levels as per need & use, in this case. As excercising can increase need for more glucose, higher level of glucose can be possible for survival(due to resistance in energy breakdown due to higher insulin levels). Otherway, heavy excercise can be stressful, so stress hormones can be secrated increasing glucose levels.

[Dr Vinod]

Hello!

Your body recognizes intense exercise as a stress and releases stress hormones that tell your body to increase available blood sugar to fuel your muscles so this is the reason for all the blood sugar release and your symptoms.

If this happens to you, you may need a little bit of insulin after intense workouts.

Talk with your endocrinologist.

Take care!

[Gumpha]

Am Diabetic, taking insulin. Recently I have started playing tennis, But immediately after my playing my blood sugar level is high and I feel exterme irritation on my feet, kind of tingling feel....especialy near the fingers. what wud be the cause...pls suggest

[Dr Vinod]

Hello!

More often than not exercise will lower blood glucose levels, but there are certain circumstances under which blood glucose levels can actually increase.......

You are having fasting blood glucose levels of 110 before exercise...

During strenuous exercise your muscles need more glucose so they send a signal for more energy which comes from the blood glucose or stored glycogen in your liver.  As your body responds by releasing more glucose and without sufficient insulin, very hard exercise and sometimes even novel exercise will cause a rise in blood glucose levels.

Talk with an endocrinologist.

Take care!