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    Do your blood glucose levels typically rise when you take a shower? Please select the option that includes whether you disconnect a tubed pump during the shower, or if you do not disconnect a pump (MDI, pods, inhalable insulin, etc.)

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    30 Comments

    1. Stang777

      I sure wish we could go back and change our answers on here. I did not see the part in parenthesis for those who use MDI until after I answered the question. I thought there were only answers that applied to those who use pumps, so I picked other. My levels do rise every time I take a shower, regardless of anything else I have going on, or time of day, but I use MDI so didn’t think there was an answer that I could select. Guess I have to be more careful when reading the questions instead of paying more attentions to the answers that are available to select.

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    2. Mary Dexter

      I do MDI. Sometimes they will get lower if I have just corrected a high.

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    3. Sahran Holiday

      Why I’ve never and will never use a tubed pump. Omnipod stays on shower, swimming, everywhere.

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    4. Lawrence Stearns

      I disconnect my tandem pump. But, I usually take a .15 bolus before I get in, to make up for the basal that I would have missed during the time I am in the shower. However, if my BS is low, I will skip the bolus.

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    5. Sadie Robinson

      I wear a omnipod. No rise during shower.

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    6. rick phillips

      I disconnect and because of the water temp my bs falls

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    7. Jneticdiabetic

      I use a tubed pump and my BGs do rise when I disconnect for a shower. They also tend to rise when I get up in the morning. When I’m on auto mode, I bolus for 10g of pseudo carbs and that seems to help address both issues.
      I think the instructions also say to put the pump on suspend when disconnecting so it doesn’t calculate the missed basal as delivered. I don’t to this because I’ll reattach & forget to unsuspend and not realize until my “high with 3 arrows up” alarm starts up.

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    8. Sue Payne

      I have learned to do a manual correction bolus, according to whatever my Tandem x2 Slim pump calculates, before disconnecting for a shower. This prevents a rise, as long as I reconnect fairly quickly after the shower.

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      1. Bonnie Lundblom

        I do exactly what you’ve described!

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      2. Bea Anderson

        I bolus correction before disconnecting pump unless I’m running low of course!

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    9. Carol Meares

      I take baths and do not disconnect. I hang the pump on my necklace. My BG rises always in the tub so I take .5 to 1 unit before bathing depending where my BG is. I then watch it because it can still go up. I always keep Glucose tabs by the tub just in case but almost never have to use them. Notice the word ā€˜almost’:-/… Most always my BG goes up tho’.

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    10. Mark Schweim

      I said “OTHER” because I’ve used pumps with tubed infusion sets since 2003 and I have BOTH on nearly equal frequencies… Sometimes I disconnect to shower and my BG rises, sometimes I disconnect to shower and my BG remains ROCK SOLID even while disconnected, yet other times I’ll disconnect to shower and my BG will DROP THROUGH THE FLOOR!!!

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    11. Janis Senungetuk

      Yes, I disconnect my Tandem pump before getting into the shower and no, my bg level doesn’t necessarily increase. I’m disconnected for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    12. dave hedeen

      perhaps length of shower bath time is a more critical factor? My BG do not rise yet my showers are 5 minutes.

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      1. Cecilia Yamamoto

        wondering exactly the same. Maybe people who like to shower for over 10 min with very hot water experience low bg?

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    13. Conniekaycox

      Mine goes down 50 or so points. It’s weird.

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    14. Pauline M Reynolds

      I chose “other” because I’m bedeviled by my BG getting too low during or after a shower. Recently put a can of sugar-full soda in the shower, and now I’m not nervous anymore.

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    15. connie ker

      I take baths instead of showers and I don’t wear a pump, so this question is an “Other” for me. I do wear my Abbott Freestyle Libre in the bath but sometimes it is affected by the soap and water.

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    16. Kevin McCue

      My sugars rise during showering. My ending said it’s probably due to capillary dilation around sensor. Never checked with meter. Usually rises 20-40 points. Usually dose for it, since it’s before breakfast just to get a jumpstart on it working. Haven’t noticed a low after the larger bolus though.

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    17. Marsha Miller

      Yes, my BG rises every time and it has forever. I wear a pump and I disconnect. My doctor says it is simply due to the lack of insulin my body is not getting from the 20 minute disconnect. I also think that because my showers are in the morning and I do have dawn-phenomenon, it’s especially why the rise in the shower. I do bolus when I see the rise and it immediately comes down. I should probably learn, after all these years of T1D, to bolus first… I just hate a low and worry that ā€œmaybe this onceā€ I won’t need it and go low.šŸ˜‚

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    18. Kristine Warmecke

      Other; I disconnect and my blood sugar falls 99% of the time. Thus I make sure I eat before taking one.

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    19. Molly Jones

      My BG does not usually rise for the 10-20 min shower I take 2 times a week disconnected from my tandem. It sometimes falls.

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    20. LizB

      Since I usually take a shower right after getting up, my BGs rise. But, they would rise whether I take a shower or not so that really has nothing to do with it. On days when I did wait until later in the day to shower my BG will often drop .

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    21. Sjoymex

      This happens less now that I have been prebolusing for breakfast right before my shower. Before though I would have to take about half a unit before my shower so it wouldn’t rise.

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    22. Lucia Maya

      I disconnect before I shower but always bolus a half unit first, and most of the time it balances out.

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    23. KCR

      My CGM usually shows my BG dropping after a shower but the last time it happened I did a finger stick and that suggested I had not dropped at all. So…I don’t really know!

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    24. PamK

      I chose “other” because I have had both highs and lows after a shower. I use to go high almost every day. My doctor suggested increasing my AM basal. Doing so caused me to drop though.
      Now, I will bolus a small amount of insulin if my BG is 120 mg/dl or higher. Any lower and I don’t for fear of going too low.

      Doing it this way, I am usually good. Occasionally, I will still go high, but I’ll just bolus a little extra for breakfast if I do.

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    25. sandra smith

      I am MDI and do NOT see a BG rise with a shower but i DO see a huge rise with a hot BATH.

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    26. Cheryl Seibert

      No! A nice hot shower after bolusing (I disconnect during the shower), greatly increases the insulin’s absorption rate. I utilize a hot shower in the morning after breakfast to control my dawn phenomenon.

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    27. Alissa Ellenwood

      I am MDI, I’ve noticed a slight increase during cold winter months when taking a long shower or bath, but no change with short/normal 5-10 min showers or showers during warm months.

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