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Hi Hope I'm not interfering here but I totally get where pianoman is coming from, 4 cals per gram for catbs and proteins and 9 cals per gram for fat. For Albert hat equates to 240 cals for carbs and 270 cals for fat - total = 510 cals. If you read below you may understand pianomans confusion...

Warning may not be suitable for those with weak stomach Hi Thought I would tell you about my experience with metformin Was put on it over 10 year ago and was just told this may help you lose weight as it stops the liver producing glucose. Needless to say it never helped with weight loss...

Hi Snodger Thanks for your reply. You got it right, I am confused why I still seem to need insulin when eating no carbs and unsure about the BI. When I was put on the BI at diagnosis 17 yrs ago was just told it was long acting, no explanation of what it done, how it worked and now after dafne...

Hi all Hope someone can give me help regarding background insulin. I am taking Isophane insulin which I have been taking for 17 years (humilin I). Took it at dinnertime and always had high BS upon waking. Moved me onto lantus late last year and was on 32 units split, previously used to only...

Hi davy Yes keeping diary, I have posted a 5 day one on the DAFNE community website. If your a member there my username is derekh1965 you can check out the sugars. The example I gave you was how they have been for the past week. I graduated dafne on april 15, had o go back into see the dsn...

Re: Help with insukin and DAFNE etc Hi Andy |Thanks for your reply. I have been on Humalog for he last 15 yrs and it was ok. Reason for change was because of how I felt on lantus and read a few others were the same. Some reccommended animal insulin so asked to try it out. Think I wil go back...

Hi Andy I always injected into my stomach with a 12mm needle and had large bruises, since changing to a 5mm needle six months ago no more bruises. I am very overweight also, my waist size is about 47", so proof you don't need a long needle. Might be worth considering Derek

Hi All My name is Derek and I have had type1 diabetes for almost 17 years. When first diagnosed I had never heard of diabetes. I was put on Humilin Soluble and Humilin Isophane mix twice a day but due to not having a fixed lunchtime I was quite often going hypo. I was switched to Humalog maybe...

Hi Thanks for all your replies. I have now setup to automacally logon and I should have created it in notepad. I will now go and create another post withy some problems in relation to insulin, dafne and other stuff. Thanks again and best regards Derek

Hi All My name is Derek, 46 and a type 1 diabetic for almost 17yrs. Need some help with the forum because I sat and wrote a post which took me almost 2 hours to write as I was thinking what to write as I went along. Clicked on the post buton and I was told I needed to logon, logged on and all...