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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
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- **** doctors. Airport travel.
If you don't know how to carb count then it's no surprise that your BG is out of control. It's a fundamental process required for controlling BG - is there a reason why you don't know how to do this?
As for the 10-12 injections, I can imagine that the majority of those are correction doses? Correction doses from both incorrect amounts of bolus administered for meals (through incorrectly estimated carbs) and a lack of basal insulin; that's certainly my guess.
Have you ever adjusted your basal insulin dose by yourself, tested your duration of insulin action, calculated your I:C ratio, TDD, correction factor, etc?
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Carb counting has never ever been mentioned to me at all by any health professional - like ever. But I really need to sort that. As today I had a weird hypo at 3.1mmol and I ate 2 pieces of brown rye type bread with no added sugar blueberry jam and 1 hour later my blood was 11.3mmol. So quite an increase. Though that was quite a mild food treatment - as normally when I've gone hypo I've gone munchie crazy and reached for the crunchy nut cornflakes and snickers bars :-o
As for some of that other stuff I:C ration etc. I've never done any of it. I heard a rumour about some carb counting course - but as I spend part of the year out of the UK (in the sun) It's quite difficult to sort something out - especially when they seem so pie in the sky about appointments and simply refuse to use modern technology - i.e. - they could easily send me an email or text which I can pick up anywhere instead of a letter sent to an address I might not be at. Anyway, I have an appointment with an endocrinologist in May here in Spain (as my GP was concerned about my last blood test being 3 times the max recommended number)- so perhaps I'll spend the next month trying to learn some medical spanish and ask if there's any course around here that I can do. As I don't fancy a top temperature of 10c so much.