Everybody says I have to get a job now. But I can’t find one.
So, what if I just build Finnish saunas? I’m Finnish-ish…enough to build a wooden box. I like saunas when its cold in the winter. But I also think they are kinda dangerous.
I don’t think diabetics should have them. We have bad circulation, and saunas can be good for that, but it also pumps up the speed at which some people’s bodies process insulin & it can knock them unconscious. If you are alone, you will die. I’ve known one person who almost died in a sauna. That’s because it started on fire. They start on fire not infrequently. They also contain these really hot stoves and if you touch them, you get 4th degree burns. One simply cannot pass out in a sauna.
There used to be these menacing signs above hot tubs that read, “No diabetics allowed in hot tub,” which I found quietly hurtful and hilarious. Why can’t I go into the hot tub? I don’t think anybody knows why, except that they find a lot of diabetics dead in hotel hot tubs - enough that the insurance co puts up a sign - diabetes bad black magic.
The other problem with this business plan is that I am perhaps not the diabetic epileptic that should be doing a lot of physical work w/ power tools.
Other than those 2 issues, I think it could work. Maybe I could build a type of sauna that isn’t SO deadly if you pass out.
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Before you proceed I should mention the added hazards of floating saunas! A friend built one, wood fired, and beached it after one use because it was too “unseaworthy”. He uses it a lot on dry land though.
My personal experience with saunas says the sign should be modified to say “No drunks allowed in sauna, buddies required for all drunks in hot tub”
I’ve never seen a sign like that. Maybe it was because back in the day diabetics were in poor control and would pee all the time.
I’ve been in saunas and hot tubs and I’ve never suffered and ill effects
We have a new one of those here. If evokes an even higher level of danger because you jump off the roof into lake superior. The water is dark and menacing and we have all been told our whole lives not to swim in that lake because its too dangerous. I’m a land mammal. I know nothing of rip currents.
Haven’t you heard people on this forum talk about how their blood sugar gets low every time they take a hot shower? People theorize that the additional heat gets their blood circulating and causes any insulin in the blood stream to get processed rapidly? I don’t know if its true. It might be one of those “diabetes black magic,” things. Hot Showers and Type 1 - #28 by Beth_mother_of_Max_d
I definitely get a drop in sugar from hot showers and hot baths but it’s not severe. Besides I guess you can eat something before.
There is really nothing that limits me, just takes more planning and having extra supplies to manage most things
You do!!! I don’t think I do…at least not that I notice. That’s interesting. I suspect that I might see a drop from riding in a hot car w/ no A/C for an hour. I think I might have occasionally seen some really rapid drops from that.
Hot showers have definitely lowered my blood sugar before. Never knew why until now. I wonder how hot outdoor weather affects it. My friend and I both have Type 1 and we hung out in the hotel sauna. I went low and my friend was fine. Go figure!
I believe heat causes more blood flow in your skin so insulin is absorbed faster and more efficiently. I’ve read that it also increases insulin sensitivity. Hard to say. I live in a hot climate so most of the year it’s hot,but my pump is against my body which means it is usually the same temp as my skin.
I also get spikes from black coffee. I think that is insulin sensitivity reacting to caffeine, but really I don’t know.
I take 20 carb injection about 1.5 units for black coffee.
I don’t treat lows from a shower because it returns to normal after the shower.
Have you ever been driving and someone nearly crashes into you. I had that happen and my sugar jumped from 95 to 280.
I corrected it with a bolus, but my doctor told me to not correct adrenaline highs because you will go low afterward, but my experience does not bear that out.
I correct those highs and it works out.
Interesting! My previous endo told me not to correct rebound highs too aggressively because the liver would re-absorb it. She said it might take a long time. To be honest, I wasn’t comfortable running that high for so long, so I don’t know how much it works, but I am more cautious afterward. I have had stress spikes, definitely. I also have physical stress increases in my blood sugars. If I get sick, get injured, have a vaccine, get stitches in or out, or go under anesthesia, I often need more insulin. Not every single time, but most of the time. I used to spike from coffee, too. I think I treated it as around 8 carbs. I wonder if, if it’s about the caffeine, decaffeinated would cause less of a spike. I don’t recall a spike from black tea, which also has caffeine. Mysterious, indeed!
Without insulin. My understanding is that this is correct but it’s based on stuff one or other of the @erics has said.
My understanding is also that it takes around 3 minutes for the liver to take out half of the monosaccharides (anything it can convert to glycogen) in our blood stream.
