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<blockquote data-quote="paulliljeros" data-source="post: 1472299" data-attributes="member: 220050"><p>Are you testing regularly, and how often per day? Are you keeping complete timed logs of carbs, doses and BGs? It's worth it so you can review trends etc whilst trying to make changes. For me, I found the game changer was when I read "Pumping Insulin", "Think Like a Pancreas" and "Sugar Surfing". Having CGM made it infinitely easier for me, but if you are willing to take plenty of blood tests, consistently, it really is achievable. Having spent 28 years with diabetes and an a1c consistently in the 90's or above, the books and this forum made me realise how little I actually knew about diabetes.</p><p>Whilst you should definitely continue to engage with, and take advice from your DSN, you can start to work things out by doing basal testing first, as this is your foundation, and this must be correct, before you can sort anything else. Only ever change one thing at a time, and give things time to stabilise after a change, so you can decide whether the results are better, or worse. It took me 3+months until I started seeing significant improvements, but for me, I realised it was many small changes over a long time, that was required. Hope this helps give something to consider.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paulliljeros, post: 1472299, member: 220050"] Are you testing regularly, and how often per day? Are you keeping complete timed logs of carbs, doses and BGs? It's worth it so you can review trends etc whilst trying to make changes. For me, I found the game changer was when I read "Pumping Insulin", "Think Like a Pancreas" and "Sugar Surfing". Having CGM made it infinitely easier for me, but if you are willing to take plenty of blood tests, consistently, it really is achievable. Having spent 28 years with diabetes and an a1c consistently in the 90's or above, the books and this forum made me realise how little I actually knew about diabetes. Whilst you should definitely continue to engage with, and take advice from your DSN, you can start to work things out by doing basal testing first, as this is your foundation, and this must be correct, before you can sort anything else. Only ever change one thing at a time, and give things time to stabilise after a change, so you can decide whether the results are better, or worse. It took me 3+months until I started seeing significant improvements, but for me, I realised it was many small changes over a long time, that was required. Hope this helps give something to consider. [/QUOTE]
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