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Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with T1 in April this year, I was in hospital as I had a serious lung infection when they found my T1. My infection also played havoc with my blood gloucose levels, I was on average 22. I am now anywhere between 6 and 14. I am finding it really hard to judge what levels of rapid insulin to take and when, but I know that will I'm[rove when I used to the carb counting etc.
 
Hello and welcome to the forum, sorry you have to be here, though. Do ask anything you need to know, someone always comes along with an answer.
 
welcome to the forum. Have you been offered any courses/ education with carb counting? My Local team do a 2 hour course which was helpful, but the best one is DAFNE which is week-long. It might be worth seeing if they do this in your area.
 
Hi I ahvent been offered one yet, but I know they do a DAFNE in my area. I have a copy f the carb and cals book which is helpful.
 
Mr MCC said:
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with T1 in April this year, I was in hospital as I had a serious lung infection when they found my T1. My infection also played havoc with my blood gloucose levels, I was on average 22. I am now anywhere between 6 and 14. I am finding it really hard to judge what levels of rapid insulin to take and when, but I know that will I'm[rove when I used to the carb counting etc.
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Hi Mr MCC, welcome to the forum 🙂 I'd recommend downloading the free Carb Counting booklet from Diabetes UK - might clarify things for you a bit:

https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/usr/downloads/Carbs-Count-2012-reduced.pdf

Also, if you want to go the whole hog and don't want to wait around for a course, there is an excellent free course available at http://www.bdec-e-learning.com/ (free, and run by the excellent Bournemouth Diabetes Centre, very similar content to the actual DAFNE course).
 
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