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CHO Counting Course
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litto-miss-loz
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Hey all 🙂
Just popped on to say that the dafne course went very well
Everyone was really nice & it was soo good to meet other diabetics and share our experiences. Its amazin how we all go through the same situations and then u feel that ur not the only one who goes through them. I have been very busy carb countin all week lol but as each day goes by it does get easier. I moved from lantus to levemir twice a day which I think has helped alot and will help when i go back to work on tues aswell.
There were people there who have had diabetes for nearly 50 years and other people who were between 1-5 years. Its amazin how technology has changed soo much over the years!
We all went to lunch together and injected infront of each other which i found good as it gave me more confidence with injecting in public.
We are all going to keep in touch and try and get a night out so we can update each other with our blood sugars lol and in 6 weeks time we have a review session which im looking forward to 🙂
I would highly recommend the dafne course as it gives you much more freedom and flexibility and the support you get from the other diabetics is just great even if you think you have great control, I think the dafne course will still be useful in other ways so I would defo go for it and I would hope that dafne will be available to every diabetic in the future and to those newly diagnosed aswell.
hope ur all well fellow diabetics.
over and out xxxx
Just popped on to say that the dafne course went very well
Everyone was really nice & it was soo good to meet other diabetics and share our experiences. Its amazin how we all go through the same situations and then u feel that ur not the only one who goes through them. I have been very busy carb countin all week lol but as each day goes by it does get easier. I moved from lantus to levemir twice a day which I think has helped alot and will help when i go back to work on tues aswell.
There were people there who have had diabetes for nearly 50 years and other people who were between 1-5 years. Its amazin how technology has changed soo much over the years!
We all went to lunch together and injected infront of each other which i found good as it gave me more confidence with injecting in public.
We are all going to keep in touch and try and get a night out so we can update each other with our blood sugars lol and in 6 weeks time we have a review session which im looking forward to 🙂
I would highly recommend the dafne course as it gives you much more freedom and flexibility and the support you get from the other diabetics is just great
even if you think you have great control, I think the dafne course will still be useful in other ways so I would defo go for it and I would hope that dafne will be available to every diabetic in the future and to those newly diagnosed aswell. hope ur all well fellow diabetics.
over and out xxxx
Northerner
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Hey all 🙂
Just popped on to say that the dafne course went very well
Hi Loz! Fantastic to hear that the course went so well, and that you met some great people!🙂
MCH
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Week Three of the CHO counting Course
? I know it was ages ago, but we were away last weekend and busy since we got back. (I'll get round to week four asap.)
Yet another interesting week.
We again started by reviewing our BG results which allowed us to see the sorts of trends we should be looking for and how to interpret/deal with them more scientifically then perhaps we used to. 🙂
A doctor then talked to us about exercise and how to cope with the complications of eating/insulin when we exercised or were just more active than usual. He suggested that we might need to cut our food insulin (short acting) by 50 -75% (a lot more than I had been trying) pre exercise and explained that after exercise you need to eat something to replenish stores of glucose which would have been released from our liver while we were active. It was also suggested that we might need to take a little insulin so that our bodies could actually use the CHO we were eating (before and after exercise ? this could explain why sometimes when exercising BG levels are very high when you finish if you have too little insulin in your system to actually use the stores from you liver which then hang about in your blood). If you finish exercise and don?t eat enough, you can end up hypo because the first place the CHO goes is into your liver and that could mean that you don?t have enough in your blood ? hence you get low. One other suggestion was that for the last 30 second, you should ?go flat out? -which sounded relaxing to me 😉 until it was explained that you should work as hard as you can for the last 30 seconds as there is some evidence that this could reduce hypos later ? having been away, I haven?t tried it at the gym yet, but will get there soon.
We also went over ?sick day rules? ? I don?t ever remember being told them before-but basically they are:
Keep taking you basal insulin
If you can't eat, sip sugary drinks (lucozade, soft drinks milky drinks etc.)
Test every 2 hours for ketones if you BG remains above 14mmol/l(if you get them and they don?t start to go down fairly quickly, go to hospital)
Test you BG every 2 hours, double you correction dose and take it every 2 hours
Drink plenty
Again, if you get the chance to go on one of these courses ? take it ? not only will you get to learn how to carbohydrate count, but you will be reminded of things you probably knew at one time but may have forgotten and for those of us who have been diabetic for a while, be told about new developments/ideas etc. I have found that there are a number of things that people assume you know things which you may never have been told in the first place!
? I know it was ages ago, but we were away last weekend and busy since we got back. (I'll get round to week four asap.)
Yet another interesting week.
We again started by reviewing our BG results which allowed us to see the sorts of trends we should be looking for and how to interpret/deal with them more scientifically then perhaps we used to. 🙂
A doctor then talked to us about exercise and how to cope with the complications of eating/insulin when we exercised or were just more active than usual. He suggested that we might need to cut our food insulin (short acting) by 50 -75% (a lot more than I had been trying) pre exercise and explained that after exercise you need to eat something to replenish stores of glucose which would have been released from our liver while we were active. It was also suggested that we might need to take a little insulin so that our bodies could actually use the CHO we were eating (before and after exercise ? this could explain why sometimes when exercising BG levels are very high when you finish if you have too little insulin in your system to actually use the stores from you liver which then hang about in your blood). If you finish exercise and don?t eat enough, you can end up hypo because the first place the CHO goes is into your liver and that could mean that you don?t have enough in your blood ? hence you get low. One other suggestion was that for the last 30 second, you should ?go flat out? -which sounded relaxing to me 😉 until it was explained that you should work as hard as you can for the last 30 seconds as there is some evidence that this could reduce hypos later ? having been away, I haven?t tried it at the gym yet, but will get there soon.
We also went over ?sick day rules? ? I don?t ever remember being told them before-but basically they are:
Keep taking you basal insulin
If you can't eat, sip sugary drinks (lucozade, soft drinks milky drinks etc.)
Test every 2 hours for ketones if you BG remains above 14mmol/l(if you get them and they don?t start to go down fairly quickly, go to hospital)
Test you BG every 2 hours, double you correction dose and take it every 2 hours
Drink plenty
Again, if you get the chance to go on one of these courses ? take it ? not only will you get to learn how to carbohydrate count, but you will be reminded of things you probably knew at one time but may have forgotten
and for those of us who have been diabetic for a while, be told about new developments/ideas etc. I have found that there are a number of things that people assume you know things which you may never have been told in the first place!- Status