Hi, eventually took the plunge and registered !

[Dizzyissy]

1 insulin pen used 3 x daily before food plus a different insulin pen 1 x daily at 10pm. Guessing that’s basal/Bolus you mention.
Afraid my knowledge of Diabetes Language and abbreviations within posts needs working on as well as my meal planning, carb counting and positive thinking encouragement skills. Lol.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I didn't know that onset is slower at a later age

Can be (hence the number of forum members who were misdiagnosed as Type 2) but I don't think it always is. Some older people describe becoming sick (over a week or two), losing weight, and ending up in A&E with DKA (much as I did when I was 15).

 

[helli]

1 insulin pen used 3 x daily before food plus a different insulin pen 1 x daily at 10pm. Guessing that’s basal/Bolus you mention.
Afraid my knowledge of Diabetes Language and abbreviations within posts needs working on as well as my meal planning, carb counting and positive thinking encouragement skills. Lol.

Yeah, that basal bolus.
The 10pm one is slow acting insulin that lasts for 24 hours and is the basal. I think of it as the "Base" which helps me remember the name.
The other is the fast acting bolus. insulin. I have no tricks to help me remember the word "bolus" which I had never heard until I was diagnosed with diabetes. I just remember it's not the base/basal one.

Staying positive is incredibly important for me. It is easy to get dragged down by the stats regarding complications and shortened livespan but most of that is based on historical data from the days before fast acting insulin, when you had to wee on a stick to get a vague idea of your blood sugars and before some of the great technology we have today. If we manage our blood sugars, the additional medical risks Type 1 brings are significantly reduced.

However, we also have to consider our mental health. Sure, remain positive and keep a close eye on blood sugars. But don't get obsessed with accurate carb counting, constant dose tweaking and perfect numbers. We are more than just our diabetes.

 

[trophywench]

@helli - I did giggle reading your post about being on animal insulin for approx 5 minutes. Fortunately dear old porcine insulin (I do still love piggies) did the job of keeping me alive for approx 20 years NP - so I can never discount the job that they and the moo cows did for one hell of a lot of us, worldwide, for so very very long.

Having said that; bearing in mind the ancient Greeks knew about diabetes cos they wrote about it and there has only been ANY actual treatment for it since 1923 - (those poor, poor dogs) - we are all so HELLISHLY lucky to have been born when we were!

Hoping to be still here to celebrate the centenary!!

 

[Dizzyissy]

Yeah, that basal bolus.
The 10pm one is slow acting insulin that lasts for 24 hours and is the basal. I think of it as the "Base" which helps me remember the name.
The other is the fast acting bolus. insulin. I have no tricks to help me remember the word "bolus" which I had never heard until I was diagnosed with diabetes. I just remember it's not the base/basal one.

Staying positive is incredibly important for me. It is easy to get dragged down by the stats regarding complications and shortened livespan but most of that is based on historical data from the days before fast acting insulin, when you had to wee on a stick to get a vague idea of your blood sugars and before some of the great technology we have today. If we manage our blood sugars, the additional medical risks Type 1 brings are significantly reduced.

However, we also have to consider our mental health. Sure, remain positive and keep a close eye on blood sugars. But don't get obsessed with accurate carb counting, constant dose tweaking and perfect numbers. We are more than just our diabetes.

Best basic, user friendly info I’ve read, last paragraph especially. Thank you.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

1 insulin pen used 3 x daily before food plus a different insulin pen 1 x daily at 10pm. Guessing that’s basal/Bolus you mention.
Afraid my knowledge of Diabetes Language and abbreviations within posts needs working on as well as my meal planning, carb counting and positive thinking encouragement skills. Lol.

Welcome to the forum @Dizzyissy

Glad to see you have de-lurked Good to have you here.

Hope you find the forum supportive, friendly and informative - and a place where you can ask any question without worrying that people might think it too obvious or silly (we won't!), or just to rant and let off steam about the ups and downs of pancreas impersonation.

This page has a list of frequently used diabetes and forum acronyms which you might find helpful 🙂

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Here is an alphabetical list of acronyms and abbreviations you may come across on the forum: Health-related A1c - Shortened version of HbA1c the blood test that checks average BG over previous 6-12 weeks ADA - American Diabetic Association Basal - 'Background', long acting insulin (eg Lantus...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

 

[daducky88]

A number of members seem to have "Parent", so I'm sure an administrator will be able to change it for you, though it doesn't matter that much.


Some of those may be at least partly psychological, but regardless they're all things that are worth him mentioning: it's understood that handling diabetes is onerous and often stressful, and the clinic will want to offer help. Similarly, rapid changes (as will happen after first diagnosis) in blood glucose can produce a variety of weird symptoms; some will just dissipate but some may last longer.


It's DAFNE, of course (it's an acronym).

cheers Bruce 🙂
Now where's Thelma?

 

[daducky88]

Thanks for info especially rough idea of daily carbs to maybe work around as never had need to control food intake myself or in family so a lot to learn and quickly.
Luckily I guess, i eat whatever foods I want, no fixed meal times, just eat if/when hungry (Not a good regime I suppose but done this most of life without need of weight control diets or such)

No sweat.
When one is younger, one seems to burn off what they eat. But i used to cycle and walk everywhere and stayed at 70kgs( 11 stone). Now with a car under el backsidio and less activity 13.5stone. I'm seriously thinking of leaving the car on the drive next year and going back to walking and cycling. It might finally shift my hba1c down from 55. However Addison's an complication and burns a hole in your glycaemia like pr £land shoes ont'Ilkley moor bar tat, where's that? which i suppose means i shall be compelled to scoff as the Japanese say; cakewa.

 

[daducky88]

Welcome to the forum @Dizzyissy

Glad to see you have de-lurked Good to have you here.

Hope you find the forum supportive, friendly and informative - and a place where you can ask any question without worrying that people might think it too obvious or silly (we won't!), or just to rant and let off steam about the ups and downs of pancreas impersonation.

This page has a list of frequently used diabetes and forum acronyms which you might find helpful 🙂

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Here is an alphabetical list of acronyms and abbreviations you may come across on the forum: Health-related A1c - Shortened version of HbA1c the blood test that checks average BG over previous 6-12 weeks ADA - American Diabetic Association Basal - 'Background', long acting insulin (eg Lantus...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

Puella delurkiat agriculo...

 

[daducky88]

1 insulin pen used 3 x daily before food plus a different insulin pen 1 x daily at 10pm. Guessing that’s basal/Bolus you mention.
Afraid my knowledge of Diabetes Language and abbreviations within posts needs working on as well as my meal planning, carb counting and positive thinking encouragement skills. Lol.

May i suggest a 0-500g scales.
I bought one.
On the back of most packets you have info telling you the amount of carbohydrate or carbs (aka CHOs) per 100g. Of course you may not want to eat 100g of every food type. So the scales lets you know know how you are eating.

Eg

Carbs from.a meal
= weight of carby stuff x carbs/100g

I cook.a meal and portion out 60g pasta (before adding any sauce). The packet says thete 50g carbs/100 wgt of pasta.
Therefore, formally:

Carbs from.this meal = 60g (weight of carb) x 50/100(carb:wgt ratio)
=30g carbs from 60g cooked weight.
See? Easy peasy lemon thingy
In practise, the carb: weight ratio i tend to round, and then its just a question of having a big clean bowl ever ready on the scales.

 

[trophywench]

In practise, the carb: weight ratio i tend to round, and then its just a question of having a big clean bowl ever ready on the scales.

No - buy a set of 'Add & weigh' scales in the first place. But your serving plate/dish on the scales and weigh it, then press the 'Zero' button so the display tells you '0' - then lob the pasta, spuds, whatever on that plate/dish and you have the weight of your own portion of whatever and can calculate the carb content of it as @daducky88 has explained. If there are other things in that meal that the carbs need counting for, zero the scales again and then weigh your portion of eg carrots or whatever it happens to be and add the carb value of the carrots to that of the spuds.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

then press the 'Zero' button so the display tells you '0'

Commonly marked "Tare" (or "TARE", or just "T"). (Though "Zero" seems like a much better label.)

 

[trophywench]

Commonly marked "Tare" (or "TARE", or just "T"). (Though "Zero" seems like a much better label.)

Ah - yes, they often are.

 

[daducky88]

Type 1 symptoms develop much much slower at a later stage in life.
Two years may be extreme but I would not dismiss it so readily ... not that it matters. What matters now is he has the diagnoses and is moving forward.

My symptoms which I ignored (even though I am not male) started in September and I was diagnosed in January without a coma, DKA or even an overnight stay in hospital.

I wonder if that because of the general trend of age related immunosenility, which has:

-s: one gets more infections as they get older as immune system diversity begins to diminish
+s: with a dimishing immune diversity, as one ages, the probability of developing T1D would decrease too for same reasons.

 

[daducky88]

1 insulin pen used 3 x daily before food plus a different insulin pen 1 x daily at 10pm. Guessing that’s basal/Bolus you mention.
Afraid my knowledge of Diabetes Language and abbreviations within posts needs working on as well as my meal planning, carb counting and positive thinking encouragement skills. Lol.

The ones b4 meals or to correct high blood sugar are bolus eg Actrapid, Humalog...
The other ones eg before bed, and or on waking are basal eg Insulatard, Levimir ...

 

[daducky88]

Commonly marked "Tare" (or "TARE", or just "T"). (Though "Zero" seems like a much better label.)

Tare very much 🙂