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i've been signed up for the DAFNE course but it's quite a while away - i feel like i know quite a lot about diabetes and was wondering what do they actually teach? i weigh my food, i count my carbs, i calculate my insulin dosage and my blood sugars are alright. beyond that, is there anything...

my diabetes dietician told me not to take insulin for the carbs in vegetables except for starchy stuff like potatoes; i get that spinach has like 1g of carbs per cup which is negligible but a yellow bell pepper has 12g of carbs which is a lot. I eat mostly vegetables for all my meals and it can...

I'll wake up with a blood sugar of 5, eat 20g of carbs, take 2 units of insulin and a few hours later my blood sugar is 12 and will stay at around 12 regardless of what i eat and how much insulin i take. Then my blood sugar will start dropping really fast in the evening and I'll wake up like 3...