Needle size for adults

[trophywench]

@Dean Holt - I've sent you a PM.

DAFNE (or rather UHCW's 'take' on it, CARBS 4 1) changed my life for the better after 30+ years! No guesswork adjusting stuff any more - all based on LOGIC. Makes perfect sense - at last!

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

My local equivalent of DAFNE is called KLIFF, confusing as many regions have their own versions. I went on one 4 weeks after I was DX, I found it so helpful and I also met fellow T1s which was also beneficial for me, I was going through that grieving and angry stage at the time and it helped to have people who understood to rant at lol!
As an aside my needles are 5mm rather than 4mm, perhaps you'd be better with the 5mm ones.

 

[Dean Holt]

Dean, ive recently been on a DAFNE type course (it has a different name where I live) and it was very useful. I met several other T1s, and a couple were in a similar place that you are now - that is, been diagnosed for many years, but were just coasting along. It helped them no end, and we recently met up again. One has reduced his HbA1c from 97 - 65 and another from 88-52. So, a vast improvement once they had bettered their knowledge, and learned what to do, and also just coming to terms with their diagnosis helped so much.
Definitely look into one of these courses.
As an aside, I was also diagnosed at age 24, so I can empathise with how you felt. I grew up with a diabetic father, and I'm in the medical industry myself, so I guess I found diabetes a little easier to grasp. However, I still have days where I rant and rave at the unfairness of it all! This group helps loads, as did the DAFNE type course 🙂

Thanx for the info. Someone else mentioned the DAFNE courses and it seems I might get something out of it.

I'm looking into it now actually.

thanx again

dean