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I've been type1 since May 1983. I don't count carbs. Instead, I simply 'feed' the insulin. But I'm happy to test a lot, maybe even 20 times per day. (Mostly I use visually read strips, cut with scissors - Betachek Visual or Glucoflex-R; that's 2 or 3 pence per test.) My last HbA1c was...

Actually, onehand, you don't need to carry a flaming 'purse' full of kit around. I don't use a pen injector, just a disposable syringe. I don't need a meter, normally. I mostly use visually read strips (which I cut with scissors into striplets): Glucoflex-R or Betachek Visual. They both come...

I take only a very small amount of slow-acting insulin - primarily because I want to ensure that I have as liitle insulin as possible (only what's needed) in my system when I go to bed at night. And I eat accordingly, of course. That's so simple, and it's so easy to arrange. However I believe...

I'm sure you've made a good move. Reverse reverse-Luddism now!

I've always had a good appetite. And I've always been slim - the only exception being when I was first diagnosed, and put on some weight for a brief while. Feeding the insulin is so much easier now that there's a very-fast-acting insulin like Novorapid. That means I can eat an early-evening...

The only slow-acting insulin I take is last thing at night: 1.5 units (summer) - 2.5 units (winter) of Insulatard. Why on earth would I take any more nighttime-acting insulin than I really need to? Instead, I ensure that I know when the fast-acting insulins I took earlier in the day run out...

The idea of 'feeding the insulin' is that you eat according to what insulin you've taken, rather than take insulin in anticipation of what you expect to eat. Rye bread is no good if you need glucose fast - unless you just quickly spread on some normal jam or marmalade. But if you need it fast...

I've been type1 since '83. My last HbA1c was 26mmol/mol - normal for a non-diabetic. I manage this, firstly, by feeding the insulin: I take the same insulin each day. Secondly, and most importantly, I feed the insulin with around 250g of rye bread per day - normally eaten with pear and apple...

Thank you! I wanted to edit that last post, but I'm unsure how to do so. First, I should have mentioned that I tend to get through well over 200g of rye bread per day. The other thing is that the effects of the Actrapid I take at 10.30, and of the Novorapid I take at 15.30, both run out (for...

Hello Omnipod, I'm sorry about the lateness of this response. (I believe I wrote on my profile page words to the effect that I'd had enough of it around here for a while.) I just came back to look - I didn't get notification of your posting. (I hope you get notification of this reply.) First...

I'm leaving. I may come back to view. But by and large I have no confidence in medical orthodoxy regarding diabetes as upheld by this forum.

When I get low blood-sugar readings, then - unless I had just eaten anyway - I act on them. Hypoglycaemia - unlike, say, hyperglycaemia - necessarily involves behaviour, be it witting or unwitting. My dietary regimen turns the threshold of a waking hypo from something akin to a cliff into...

I don't allow my blood sugar to 'sit in the 2s'. Moreover, the orthodox supposed 'definition' of hypoglycaemia - far from being merely 'conservative' - is worse than incorrect. (I should have edited my last post.) For if a supposed definition of 'hypoglycaemia' makes no reference to symptoms...

Thanks, @Paul-1977 (year of The Clash!). But I don't agree that there need only be one. One needn't go all the way. There's a lot of room for compromise. But there should be no room at all, anywhere, for an incorrect definition of 'hypoglycaemia'.

Thanks very much, @brett. But that's how it used to be in the past. I don't know how I managed to survive most of the past 31 years. I was very lucky. Apart from anything else, it used to be chiefly controlled by so much guesswork.

I wrote previously that my typical HbA1c of 27mmol/mol is typically a trouble-free reading. So unless you doubt what I say, then the posting you made was pointless: I do not lack hypo awareness.

Sure. And your point is ... ?

I used to have many hypos. And I still have to be careful, of course. But nothing like so careful as I used to have to be. Meanwhile, there is a problem with the orthodox definition of 'hypoglycaemia' as officially accepted on this Forum.

Thanks, borofergie. You surely don't believe everything you read. So, what is it that you don't believe about me and my claim to a typical and typically entirely trouble-free HbA1c reading of 27mmol/mol? I could post stuff from my GP to a moderator.

I note that you don't take insulin, @borofergie. So I take what you've written in the same way that I take the orthodox guidance from most medical people. Please excuse me if I'm mistaken, but you seem to be speaking of something which you have no direct experience of.