Copepod
Much missed Moderator
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When I was diagnosed in 1996, I had the advantage of previous nurse training, which is where I picked up a lot of useful knowledge about how to manage several situations - and a desire to avoid going hypoglyacaemic and ending up in A&E, not because I'd seen bad practice there, but because I prefer not to be a patient!
However, in the years since then, things have got much easier, as nearly all packaged foods have full nutritional contents, whether per 100g or per portion, including carbohydrate. The Tasmanian pharmacist mother of a friend of mine send a photocopied page from an Australian pharmacy journal, which explained MDI, including ability to adapt doses according to CHO content of food, so I asked my clinic to change me from bimodal regime, after just a couple of awkward months, and managed the situation myself.
Although I managed fine, it's probably not ideal for most people 😉 so I support any attempt to get better training for people starting on insulin. As I've mentioned before, online course can help computer literate people where face to face training isn't possible. eg http://www.bdec-e-learning.com/
However, in the years since then, things have got much easier, as nearly all packaged foods have full nutritional contents, whether per 100g or per portion, including carbohydrate. The Tasmanian pharmacist mother of a friend of mine send a photocopied page from an Australian pharmacy journal, which explained MDI, including ability to adapt doses according to CHO content of food, so I asked my clinic to change me from bimodal regime, after just a couple of awkward months, and managed the situation myself.
Although I managed fine, it's probably not ideal for most people 😉 so I support any attempt to get better training for people starting on insulin. As I've mentioned before, online course can help computer literate people where face to face training isn't possible. eg http://www.bdec-e-learning.com/