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Hi everyone....didn't think this would be a club I'd be joining!

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Just a hello from me.

I'm 35 and was diagnosed last month as type 1. Getting to grips with injections (not that bad so far).

Have my second appointment with my diabetic nurse tomorrow. Think they may have been drip feeding me details, as so far no carb counting yet?!

Out of interest, do people find carb counting better than just injecting a certain amount 3 times a day. It was working well, bringing my 26 readings down to the teens. I'm guessing the closer you get to the right readings the more risk you are of having hypos?

Had several over the last few days.....they seem fun!

Nice to meet you all x
 
Welcome to this exclusive club.

I certainly find carb counting makes for better control. The 'experts' are very good at not telling you everything you need to know, in my experience. I learned a lot about diabetes the hard way, before I discovered this forum.
 
Welcome Carolyn
 
Hi Welcome.
 
Carolyn81 said:
Just a hello from me.

I'm 35 and was diagnosed last month as type 1. Getting to grips with injections (not that bad so far).

Have my second appointment with my diabetic nurse tomorrow. Think they may have been drip feeding me details, as so far no carb counting yet?!

Out of interest, do people find carb counting better than just injecting a certain amount 3 times a day. It was working well, bringing my 26 readings down to the teens. I'm guessing the closer you get to the right readings the more risk you are of having hypos?

Had several over the last few days.....they seem fun!

Nice to meet you all x
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Hi Carolyn
Warm welcome to the forum.
 
Welcome to the forum, Carolyn81.
The big advantage of basal bolus insulin regime (long acting once or twice a day and short acting with each meal) is flexibility - you can eat what and when you want, miss a meal etc, plus adjust for exercise etc. You're probably in honeymoon phase now, which makes accurate dosing difficult, as your pancreas produces irregular amounts of insulin. The reason for gradually increasing insulin doses is so your body gets used to lower blood glucose levels gradually, instead of experiencing feelings of false hypoglycaemia.
 
Welcome to the forum. The best thing you could get hold of right now, is a book called 'Type 1 diabetes in babies children and teenagers' by Ragnar Hanas. No - you aren't any of those LOL - but it's still an absolute fount of knowledge even if you were 49 ! Written in English - not like a medical textbook.

If you haven't heard of DAFNE - it's one of the standard carb-counting courses held for Type 1s. It stands for Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating - and that's exactly what we can do once we know how. Fancy no carbs at all? Fine. Fancy a huge blowout with shedloads of em? Fine. (well - within reason LOL) Fancy skipping a meal entirely? Go ahead. ie - equips us to just be NORMAL LOL
 
Hello Carolyn and welcome to our forum x
 
Hi carolyn

We seem to be in the same boat, I'm 32yrs and diagnosed T1 2mths ago. I'm still on a standard dose and hoping to get on the carb counting course soon.

There is so much to learn, drip feeding info is sometimes best but then learning as you go along can be very interesting lo☺

Definitely recommend the book, thanks Jenny after your reply last week i have just received mine. Well worth the money
 
Hi carolyn
Welcome aboard 🙂. I personally hated fixed doses and much preferred carb counting because I'm not great at eating a fixed amounts of carbs and didn't like the lack of control. It's very much a personal preference though. I met a lady at the clinic just the other week who has stayed on fixed doses for 10 years and she seemed perfectly happy with that. I just wanted to be able to eat normally, my normal is quite low on the carb front 80% of the time (not a big fan of bread, pasta rice or spuds basically) but fairly high 20% of the time (I'm a big fan of dark chocolate and crackers 😉). In terms of hypos it depends on what type of control you want, tight control does make hypos more of an issue, looser control potentially less so but you should learn about all that when you're taught carb counting/more detail about management strategies. I go for tight control, but it's less of a choice than a necessity for me because I'm very sensitive to insulin, so tight control is better for me than constant hypos. It's all very personal though and you should make the decisions that best suit your body and your lifestyle. Anyway I'm waffling now, just wanted to say hello and welcome 🙂
 
Hello and welcome Carolyn. 🙂
 
Yeah @KookyCat - gimme a sandwich any time - just use double the filling and half (or less preferably) of the boring bread!

As a child I used to eat all the spuds on a dinner first - get the nasty part over and done with first (usually spuds in 1950s Britain) cos mom would tell us we needed to eat what was on our plates - and then eat the NICE stuff - ie meat fish or whatever - and veg!

Loved it in the 1960s when she did dad's spuds and then just one piece for me, my sis and mom - cos by then absolutely everyone told us carbs make you gain weight - and none of us wanted to!
 
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