Hi Princess
Good luck with the GP visit. Hopefully, the GP should be able to refer you to see a hospital consulant or at least see a surgery based DSN that has some knowledge of bolus/basal insulin and using ratios..
Although there is a mention of DAFNE course, unfortunately in some areas, DAFNE courses are only held every 6 months and have a very long waiting list. What do you do while you wait for a course to become available???? Well,dont suffer in silence, You can read Think Like A Pancreas or go to the website BDEC
http://www.bdec-e-learning.com/welcome.asp
Join it and then be prepared to test your bg levels before breakfast, mid mornning, before lunch, mid afternoon,, before eve meal, before going to bed (6 times per day). Write down the bg results, how much carb was eaten, how much insulin was injected and then see what effect the insulin and the carb had on the bg results. For best results using bolus/basal..... use a ratio. Its far better than using set amounts of insulin. Most start with 1u for 10g carb but then start to adjust the ratio to get the right target bg levels. A good starting bg level will be 6-7mmol before eating, and then by adjusting the ratio,get to 8-9.5mmol mid way (2.5hrs after eating) and then back to so the ideal bg level is usually 2-3mmol higher than the before eating bg level. There are a few websites that explain carb counting and ratios online.
This one is good
http://www.diabeticfriend.co.uk/carb-counting/ Also to calculate a correction dose look at the 100 rule. As you dont know yet what your exact Total daily insulin really is, work on 1u will lower bg by 2mmol so if yr bg is 14mmol and your target bg is 7mmol then by substracting 14-7 will equal 7 so if your correction factor is 1u for 2mmol, 7 divided by 2 will equal 3.5u so this will be your oorrection dose using targets. I never went on a DAFNE course myself but figured out carb counting using ratios by looking at BDEC., the 500 and the 100 rule It didn't take me too long to get to grips with it all but definately bg testing is a must do and writing everything down is another must do as well.
All the best