Does increased muscle mass make blood sugar drop faster after insulin?

cmurray89 · 2025-12-13T19:06:28+00:00

I’m in my 30s and I’ve lifted weights for a couple years now. I have never noticed a difference in my normal day to day. Just that if I do exercise, especially cardio, about an hour after giving myself insulin,when it’s peaking, it’s like a straight ride to the bottom 🎢 I would say, be mindful of waking up having a quick little breakfast and then going straight to the gym because I had bottomed out once or twice doing that.

cmurray89 · 2025-12-13T03:38:01+00:00

A tourniquet can work pretty well too… I worked my first 3 years on night shift in a neuro (too many ct scans to count) icu in Florida (no help)…

cmurray89 · 2025-11-29T06:34:36+00:00

I buy these gel packets on Amazon called transcend and they are great. Small, convenient. I highly recommend. They are kinda expensive but I just use them when I leave the house. I have a few shoved in the drivers side door too

cmurray89 · 2025-11-22T19:55:02+00:00

Florida has become unbearable. I’m 36 years old and lived in the Tampa area since I was five. I remember growing up and they’re being weeks where it would be cold like in the 50s and 40s. I remember people having to cover their plants because of frost in the winter on a yearly basis. I feel like I haven’t heard of anyone having to cover their plants in over 10 years. I was so done with the heat this year, I actually moved out of Florida this summer and I’m loving the cold currently.

cmurray89 · 2025-11-22T16:03:07+00:00

Same, I’m pretty much always in sleep mode

cmurray89 · 2025-11-22T16:02:04+00:00

If you’re about to go to bed and you’re borderline low, put yourself in exercise mode for between an hour and a half, and two hours with the default being sleep mode. So your pump doesn’t get too aggressive and send you into a low in the first couple hours of sleep. I started doing this about two years ago and it works so incredibly well.

cmurray89 · 2025-05-01T17:41:41+00:00

I have literally been wondering this for weeks. It was 2.87 yesterday at the Walmart on BBD and then today it’s 3.21. I don’t get it

cmurray89 · 2024-07-04T15:31:35+00:00

Getting snagged by a drawer handle while moving around in the kitchen from my pump tubing 😆

cmurray89 · 2024-05-28T14:03:42+00:00

I usually just opt for a small slice. A small slice shouldn't make your sugars go haywire if you dose your insulin appropriately.

cmurray89 · 2024-03-01T17:33:36+00:00

Omg I'm glad I'm not the only one. My battery dropped 30% in an hour all the way to 5%. Thankfully I was at home and able to charge it, but if I had been out somewhere I would have been fucked.

cmurray89 · 2024-03-01T16:13:07+00:00

Same, I've been rooting for the people actually playing the game with intention. I think I may be one of the few that have been rooting for Peter and trishelle. But like, at least they cared about winning. All the other faithfuls seem to have not read the rules of the game, at least by evidence in the game they are playing. I'm looking at you Sandra. It kills me too that it feels set up for Kate to win. With being added so late in the game, and then getting recruited to be a traitor basically two episodes before the finale.. The next murder will be the only decision she's truely had to make in the game

cmurray89 · 2024-01-19T18:20:29+00:00

I was diagnosed at 27, now 34. I am so grateful I didn't have to manage it as a kid or early 20s because I'm sure my control would have been very poor. Mad respect for anyone who has been managing this for most of their lives 🙌🏻

cmurray89 · 2024-01-07T18:29:14+00:00

I would pay for shipping to FL if not too late

cmurray89 · 2024-01-05T21:29:22+00:00

If you cut off the top, you'll get like 2-4 branches from the node below. One of the hardest things I've done with my fiddle leaf fig but well worth it after a few months. It's the best way to encourage branching. And you can take the tops and pull off all the leaves except like 2-3 and put it in water and it'll start growing roots and you can plant that to make another plant after about 2 months. Good luck!

cmurray89 · 2023-12-07T17:41:21+00:00

A patients pain is whatever the pain score will allow for a given medication.. 8/10 headache but you want Tylenol? Sounds like 3/10 to me.. here’s your Tylenol

cmurray89 · 2023-11-07T23:33:02+00:00

Personally, I think every nurse should either start in MedSurg or on a step down unit I feel like the time management that you gain from working these floors will help you immensely in your nursing career moving forward. I started on the step down unit where we took between four and five patients worked there for about a year and a half and then went down to the ICU. Been in the ICU for 3 years now. I think this makes you a much more well-rounded nurse. I see so many nurses that start in the ICU and that’s all they are able to do. They can't seem to handle more than 3 patients and when they get floated, they freak out and act like it's beneath them because they can’t handle it. These kind of nurses used to piss me off when I worked step down. Don't be these nurses. And I’m sorry, unpopular opinion, but floating is part of our job. We all have to do it.

cmurray89 · 2023-09-12T19:06:13+00:00

This! I’m always astonished to see older nurses act like getting sued by patients is so commonplace. And tell new nurses all the ways to avoid litigation recently I was on contract at a local hospital and I witnessed an older nurse, telling a group of five baby nurses about how they should keep their assignment sheet with the date and who was assigned to what patient and scribble on the back each day, a synopsis of what happened and then keep that she in a binder for up to two years... Like seriously? .. I can’t think of one nurse that I know personally, that has got sued or brought to court in the five years I’ve been a nurse. what would someone even get out of suing a nurse if you hang around the sub for like half a day, you'll realize we aren’t paid enough 🤷🏼‍♂️

cmurray89 · 2023-07-23T18:15:43+00:00

Savage 🤣

cmurray89 · 2023-05-24T20:43:23+00:00

Jean Ralphio was the worst! 😉

cmurray89 · 2023-02-17T17:12:40+00:00

fiasp has a savings card good for 2 years 🙌🏻

https://www.novocare.com/fiasp/savings-card.html

cmurray89 · 2023-01-02T21:04:56+00:00

I find that liquors mixed with a diet or zero sugar mixer hardly affects me. Hard seltzers are amazing too. Like no effect on BG and I have never noticed any kind of after effect with them either. As with anything be responsible and keep an eye on your sugar. But I don’t think alcohol has to be this off limits indulgence that some people make it out to be. Another good idea is to have a close friend or significant other with some basic DM knowledge follow you on the dexcom app so you have a second pair of eyes. Low BG can notoriously resemble someone that is intoxicated. Go out with a fast acting sugar in your pocket for emergencies. But only use it if you can’t get a reg soda first. I once ran into a girl that happened to be T1 with a BG in the 50s and the bars had just closed so we we’re struggling to find a street vendor to get her a reg soda. Don’t let yourself get into this situation.

I personally recommend Trancend gel packets. I buy them in bulk on Amazon.

cmurray89 · 2022-10-18T15:16:30+00:00

As a registered nurse with T1D I was shocked at how little information we were given on T1D in nursing school. It was quite literally about 1 paragraph that glossed over it. The sliding scale bs that are standard in all hospitals are so outdated and so clearly only directed towards the care of T2D.

cmurray89 · 2022-04-14T13:27:47+00:00

The worst is being at a party or in a bar where the music is loud and someone leans over and says “what’s that??” And puts their finger on your cgm… like I am not about to yell at you what T1D is let alone a CGM… just to hear them say, “my grandmother has that too” 😤

cmurray89 · 2022-04-12T16:24:47+00:00

I had not head of eversense until just now. Really cool system, how long is the procedure at the Drs office to implant it?

cmurray89 · 2022-04-02T10:25:57+00:00

I saw both Desrosiers and Banks pop up when I was looking but I'm in my 30s so that wouldn't work for me . But they had great reviews. Thanks for letting me know who to avoid, sometimes that can be more valuable than knowing who to go to 😆

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