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Your doctor is probably referring to the DAFNE course - Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating. There is a lot of information about it on this site. It is a 5 day course for Type 1s, teaching you how to count carbohydrates and adjust your insulin accordingly. It is quite intense as there is a lot...

Hi Lilliepop, I also suffer from a wheat intolerance since December - have found this much harder to adjust to than T1 diagnosis! Have been enjoying lots of salads over the summer but tend to find that (a) they're not filling enough and (b) it's so much more expensive than a sandwich! GF...

Hi, I was just diagnosed type 1 this weekend at age of 29. Swinging wildly between feeling completely overwhelmed and freaked out (which is how i feel right now) and feeling that I'm ok and it will be manageable. Friends and family think I'm overreacting I think but I'm struggling to get my...