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the manual you get when you do DAFNE

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Although I wouldn't really class this as a book, the manual you get when you do the DAFNE course is probably the most useful printed text you could have if your carb counting.
 
Hi Richard, welcome to the forum 🙂 Have you done DAFNE recently? A lot of our members have found it life-changing 🙂
 
Sadly they don't do it where I live :(
 
Don't support it here either, too expensive apparently, in fact they don't do any of the expert courses at all. We get told to buy carbs and cals and get on with it.

Anyway less of my moaning, welcome to the forum ragingrichard 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum Richard.

No, DAFNE never been offered to me either. Not sure if I'll need some formal learning if/when I get put forward for the pump. This e-learning from Bournemouth Hospital is pretty good though.

http://www.bdec-e-learning.com/
 
Matt Cycle said:
Welcome to the forum Richard.

No, DAFNE never been offered to me either. Not sure if I'll need some formal learning if/when I get put forward for the pump. This e-learning from Bournemouth Hospital is pretty good though.

http://www.bdec-e-learning.com/
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After my hospital clinic visit last week (first one in years after being seen at the surgery for the last 17 or so years) I've been put forward for a DAFNE course!! Simple as that - looking forward to it!
 
Good news Matt

If our area you were not allowed to be out on the pump list until you had completed the DAFNE course.
I hope that you enjoy the course.
 
Ditto SB2015 - ours isn't actually DAFNE - but a local course (by local people for local people LOL) BASED on the training from the people at Bournemouth and used in their own accredited T1 carb counting course, BERTIE. CARBS 4-1 ours is (Coventry and Rugby whatever) whereas Nuneaton Hosp - the George Eliot hosp - call their's 'GERTIE' LOL.

I loved it and learned quite a lot - even though I'd had T1 for over 30 years at the time! Plus, it was actually enjoyable sort of being in the classroom yet treated as adults - that was a new experience LOL
 
My course was called 'Diabetes4Life', which is sort of double-edged - does it mean you can live life to the full with diabetes, or is it rubbing it in that you've got this for the remainder of your days? :confused: 🙄 😉
 
Around me they are pushing the Expert courses, done it once and been offered it again, pity they waste time by not checking their records who's done it and when. The doc appear to have a pile of leaflets they hand out to diabetics and say refer yourself on to the course waiting list or they send a letter some times asking one to be put on the course.
 
trophywench said:
Ditto SB2015 - ours isn't actually DAFNE - but a local course (by local people for local people LOL) BASED on the training from the people at Bournemouth and used in their own accredited T1 carb counting course, BERTIE. CARBS 4-1 ours is (Coventry and Rugby whatever) whereas Nuneaton Hosp - the George Eliot hosp - call their's 'GERTIE' LOL.

I loved it and learned quite a lot - even though I'd had T1 for over 30 years at the time! Plus, it was actually enjoyable sort of being in the classroom yet treated as adults - that was a new experience LOL
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Gosh - looking at those locations, we must be geographically quite close, when I'm in UK. That said, I'm in neither Coventry nor Nuneaton. I used to daily commute Rugby to Euston for a while.
 
LOL - we live in Bedworth - not the most high class residential area with the best heeled resident population in the vicinity.

Eldest and her family live in Rugby as she married a Newbold lad. I wish I could say Dunchurch, but they only work in Dunchurch and live in Bilton!
 
We never got offered a course, in fact I don't think there is one for children. We just got half an hour with a dietician and a copy of Carbs and Cals and then had to get on with it!
 
A teenager who was diagnosed the same week as it was followed a Version of DAFNE which was adapted for teenagers and parents, and spread over a longer period. We used to take the opportunity if we had the same lunch break we used to help each other with carb calculations. Others sat around us were bemused, but it was a good context for use of ratios in lessons! One group I taught used to work out my insulin dose at the end of the lesson just before lunch.
 
Im about to do the carb 4:1 course. (From coventry and also doing the course in coventry) is the carb 4:1 the same as dafne?? As some say it is some say its not?
 
Steph.cheryl said:
Im about to do the carb 4:1 course. (From coventry and also doing the course in coventry) is the carb 4:1 the same as dafne?? As some say it is some say its not?
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Hi Steph, welcome to the forum 🙂 A lot of places have their own variation on the DAFNE course - hopefully all should contain similar information. You'll have to let us know how the course goes for you 🙂
 
Nothing like DAFNE offered up here another inconvenience, of living where I do.. thank goodness for the internet!
 
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