Hi all. Just wondering If any of you have attended a dafne course?
I attended one a few months back and my diabetes control has turned around!
I attended one a few months back and my diabetes control has turned around!
Dafne course
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Hi cathy.
It did many things. I was always scared of taking more than 5 units of my QA insulin so I was forever high and trying to correct. I'm no longer scared now and as I'm not high low high low high low, I feel great. I'm no longer tired and I no longer feel sluggish.
When I'm ill I also learnt about my insulin. Many doctors told me to reduce my insulin when ill as I wasn't able to eat but now I know what to do, I seem to recover a lot quicker and feel as though I've got control over myself when ill.
There is so much more what I found interesting or I learnt from but above are my main gains from the dafne course.
I just literally joined when I posted the comment and I then saw many more comments about the Dafne course.
Gemma x
It did many things. I was always scared of taking more than 5 units of my QA insulin so I was forever high and trying to correct. I'm no longer scared now and as I'm not high low high low high low, I feel great. I'm no longer tired and I no longer feel sluggish.
When I'm ill I also learnt about my insulin. Many doctors told me to reduce my insulin when ill as I wasn't able to eat but now I know what to do, I seem to recover a lot quicker and feel as though I've got control over myself when ill.
There is so much more what I found interesting or I learnt from but above are my main gains from the dafne course.
I just literally joined when I posted the comment and I then saw many more comments about the Dafne course.
Gemma x
I also found the DAFNE course very helpful, especially understanding my insulin sensitivity for hi blood glucose corrections as well as the carbohydrate portion counting, the sick day rules are a real life saver too. I only achieved almost perfect control of my blood sugars after 30 years of type 1 diabetes, after starting on an insulin pump in May 2011 and I think my health has improved as a result of both the DAFNE course as well as pump therapy.
The improvements in my health are also due to the fact I test my blood sugars 4 to 6 times per day and carefully weigh my food.
I feel better, I am more positive about my diabetes and the quality of my life has improved tremendously.
I too have a tremendous fear of hypoglycaemia, I feel safer when I go hypo at home but when I have a hypo outside I tend to panic. I would advise people to always make sure you have a bag or two of soft sweets on you for emergencies, as hypos can come over you unexpectadly. I treat hypos with jelly babies, fruit pastels and wine gums but chocolate coated raisons are no good as I found out last night when I had one hypo after another !!
The improvements in my health are also due to the fact I test my blood sugars 4 to 6 times per day and carefully weigh my food.
I feel better, I am more positive about my diabetes and the quality of my life has improved tremendously.
I too have a tremendous fear of hypoglycaemia, I feel safer when I go hypo at home but when I have a hypo outside I tend to panic. I would advise people to always make sure you have a bag or two of soft sweets on you for emergencies, as hypos can come over you unexpectadly. I treat hypos with jelly babies, fruit pastels and wine gums but chocolate coated raisons are no good as I found out last night when I had one hypo after another !!
JELLY BABIES!!!! That was a running joke when I did the DAFNE course I still chuckle to myself when I see a packet :lol: I really think DAFNE is the best thing for a diabetic to do I have got so much better control of my blood sugar levels & always have my carbohydrate book in my bag I have a massively better understanding of insulin dosage I'm so glad that I did the course 5 days is nothing when it's going to be such a positive impact on the rest of your life :grin:
SJ x
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The woman running the DAFNE course I went on was always going on about jelly babies as a hypo treatment she said it so many times we all had a good giggle every time :lol:
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noblehead said:
Oh my god it all adds up!!! Hahaha :lol:
SJ x
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Hi I did the DAFNE course last week, I found it very interesting and am waiting to see if it improves my Diabetes. I have heard about it. Dafne seems to increase injections to cover all the food one eats where it was all covered in the system I had before. Am looking forward to trying it out.
Andrew
Andrew
