fairylights
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
I found DAFNE very useful because of the way it teaches you to check and make adjustments in a much less haphazard way than I had been doing previously. Because I met other real life diabetics, Because I got to know the DSN and dietician much better. Because I didn't feel like a failure any more for not being able to get my Dawn Phenomenon under control. And ultimately because I got a pump within a year after doing it, a pump was never on my wish list but the DSN and consultant persuaded me that it was the best thing for me and they were so right.
Yes they talk about carbs as that's what most people eat, there was a guy on my course who put sugar in his tea and drank full sugar coke and ate chips for lunch every day, but the aim was to help you with what you usually do so they tried to help him in the same way they would help with me eating lower carb meals and I would expect would help anyone eating low carb meals. Also we went for lunch with them everyday and they didn't exactly eat many carbs themselves to be honest.
Maybe I was lucky but there was no pressure and no judgement (but maybe a little persuasion to give up sugar in tea and full sugar coke).
It was definitely a turning point for me (I had only been diagnosed 2 years at the time)
Yes they talk about carbs as that's what most people eat, there was a guy on my course who put sugar in his tea and drank full sugar coke and ate chips for lunch every day, but the aim was to help you with what you usually do so they tried to help him in the same way they would help with me eating lower carb meals and I would expect would help anyone eating low carb meals. Also we went for lunch with them everyday and they didn't exactly eat many carbs themselves to be honest.
Maybe I was lucky but there was no pressure and no judgement (but maybe a little persuasion to give up sugar in tea and full sugar coke).
It was definitely a turning point for me (I had only been diagnosed 2 years at the time)