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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2016128" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi Michael, what I would say is it doesn't matter whether getting this disease was out of your control or not, the fact is you have it and you have to deal with it (as I know you are doing). It's like anything else, cancer for example, there is no point trying to carry on exactly as before (in a why shouldn't I, I didn't do anything wrong way) because you are not as you were before. My stance is that if there is something that can be done to manage a disease, then do it.</p><p>Personally, instead of carrying on eating what I did before (which wasn't sweets or cakes, but beans on wholemeal toast kind of things), I started from scratch and ate meals that I knew had say, 20 carbs in them. I tested and tested the effects of these, then tested again when moving to meals with 30 carbs in, and then 40. This way, I found it easier to determine how many units I needed per 10 carbs and how to adjust doseage dependent on the type of meal). I found that when I did try a 100 plus carb meal and injected 10 units to cover it, I went hypo VERY fast. For me my absolute safe maximum unit of insulin is about 5 units, no matter what I eat.</p><p>Again, over the first few months I tested the effects of my exercise on glucose levels and how that generally affects things, there are so many things that affect your management that it really is trial and error.</p><p>I really do understand your natural instinct to say 'Well, I will carry on as before food wise and use insulin to combat it' and there is nothing wrong with that principle but I think it only works when you are a well established diabetic if you like, and even then things go wrong. Once you have had time enough to know how YOUR body works in relation to this you can decide on a strategy whether that is adapting what you like to eat and finding a balance between food & insulin or eating what you want and perhaps being unable to balance things or something inbetween. My point really is that I think you may find that slowing down, keeping things very simple to begin with and then working UP to what you can safely eat rather than down, is perhaps a better approach. x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2016128, member: 451727"] Hi Michael, what I would say is it doesn't matter whether getting this disease was out of your control or not, the fact is you have it and you have to deal with it (as I know you are doing). It's like anything else, cancer for example, there is no point trying to carry on exactly as before (in a why shouldn't I, I didn't do anything wrong way) because you are not as you were before. My stance is that if there is something that can be done to manage a disease, then do it. Personally, instead of carrying on eating what I did before (which wasn't sweets or cakes, but beans on wholemeal toast kind of things), I started from scratch and ate meals that I knew had say, 20 carbs in them. I tested and tested the effects of these, then tested again when moving to meals with 30 carbs in, and then 40. This way, I found it easier to determine how many units I needed per 10 carbs and how to adjust doseage dependent on the type of meal). I found that when I did try a 100 plus carb meal and injected 10 units to cover it, I went hypo VERY fast. For me my absolute safe maximum unit of insulin is about 5 units, no matter what I eat. Again, over the first few months I tested the effects of my exercise on glucose levels and how that generally affects things, there are so many things that affect your management that it really is trial and error. I really do understand your natural instinct to say 'Well, I will carry on as before food wise and use insulin to combat it' and there is nothing wrong with that principle but I think it only works when you are a well established diabetic if you like, and even then things go wrong. Once you have had time enough to know how YOUR body works in relation to this you can decide on a strategy whether that is adapting what you like to eat and finding a balance between food & insulin or eating what you want and perhaps being unable to balance things or something inbetween. My point really is that I think you may find that slowing down, keeping things very simple to begin with and then working UP to what you can safely eat rather than down, is perhaps a better approach. x [/QUOTE]
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