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Took 5 units off my levemir. Will see what happens in a few days. Then take another 5 off. Carb intake also reduced.

I have done carb counting. I have also recently changed onto levemir. I was taking 30 units of lantus previously. Cheers for all the info.

Sounds like a plan. Did you only reduce carb intake to lose the weight?

I can see where this is going. I do carb count and I am pretty good at judging foods. Not trained in dafne but done carb counting course. I used to cycle A LOT and that kept my insulin dependency down. Circumstances prevailed in the last couple of years that curbed this activity. Looks like...

Bmi is 27 or something No idea what my carb intake is.

I am up to close to 50 units of levemir per day as my background insulin. Was diagnosed type 1 in 2011, do calorie counting etc and take novorapid as my fast acting insulin I weigh about 90kg My bs is constantly in the teens but I am not keen on taking 50 units of background insulin...

You need to get off taking the static amounts per meal and ask to have your background adjusted accordingly and you need to start carb counting. Nobody told me to do any of this when I was diagnosed I just read up about it and started doing it. Got some advice from my diabetes nurse over the...

Hi. I am an ex offshore worker forced into being a land lubber by my condition which was only found by going to my offshore medical where my blood sugar was at 26.7. I was basically told by my company that I would never work offshore again and so they gave me an onshore project managers job...

Thanks to everyone for your input. Looks like I will just have to suck it up for 6 months and hope my proportionate benefit insurance poilcy pays out handsomely!!!

I am an offshore worker who has recently been diagnosed with type 1 and as such i can no longer travel offshore as I cannot get medical certification until I can prove I have had my condition under control for at least 6 months. Now, My company have told me I can no longer work offshore as the...