Old dog needs to learn new tricks.

[Dominic Mayer]

Hi, I am new to this message board, and the idea of diabetic forums. I've had diabetes for 25 years and am now (in my mid thirties) trying to take it a bit more seriously but after a quarter of a century of handling my diabetes in one way and am having a little trouble adjusting. I thought it might do me good to chat to some other diabetics, outside of the usual medical / clinic environment. My main problem seems to be consistency. I am pretty good for a few weeks and then kind of forget that I have diabetes and will have dinner and completely forget to do an injection or test and then a few hours later will end up really high. I then adjust, sometime too much, and have a hypo. It's causing stress at home and I have to sort it out. At work I'm fine it just seems to be when I'm at home and relaxed. I thought that chatting about it might help...

 

[trophywench]

Hi Dominic

So .... have you been on a carb-counting course? That should give you the skills to match the dose to the carbs and also, match the dose of the correction jab to the actual BG - in order to achieve the desired BG.

And furthermore - to test whether your basal insulin is correct in the first place. Cos if that ain't right, it's like floggin a dead horse to get the first two things to behave! Have you ever done this one?

 

[HOBIE]

Hi Dom welcome to the forum 🙂

 

[Highlander]

Have you ever thought of setting up a reminder in the Calendar of a mobile phone. You could set the alarm to go off, say half an hour before you would normally eat. Of course you would have to carry the phone with you. I do it for various things, it works for me.

 

[Lauras87]

Hi Dominic & welcome to the forum 🙂

 

[Mark T]

Welcome to the forum Dominic 🙂