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<blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 886635" data-attributes="member: 140811"><p>Hi Nathan,</p><p></p><p>A bit late to the party here so not sure I can add much of any value to what's been said above. But just trying to pick up on a couple of points, you say that the other chefs view you as slacking, is this for real? Have they actually made comments or is this just your perception?</p><p></p><p>You write that 1 unit of insulin sort of deals with 3mmol. My interpretation (which may be rubbish) is that you are reacting to highs rather than trying to prevent them. Most of us would try to judge how many grams of carbohydrates we will be eating and inject 20mins (approx) beforehand. Normal advice from medical people is start at 1 unit of insulin to 10g of carbs and then adjust your ratio from 1:10 to suit your own individual needs as time goes on. (It changes over time by the way.)</p><p></p><p>From diagnosis it can take a while for blood sugars to stabilise (took me 12 weeks) but you really do need to do something about those numbers because they will harm your long term health. Don't you get toilet breaks, fag breaks, - can you time them to be 20-30 mins before you eat and then have a quick injection? Or inject when you can and try to eat something 20 mins afterwards.</p><p></p><p>And sorry to burden you further, but you also need to manage stress, it's not good for diabetics because it's likely to raise your blood sugars.</p><p></p><p>Good luck sorting this out - please come back with more questions if you need to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbanracer, post: 886635, member: 140811"] Hi Nathan, A bit late to the party here so not sure I can add much of any value to what's been said above. But just trying to pick up on a couple of points, you say that the other chefs view you as slacking, is this for real? Have they actually made comments or is this just your perception? You write that 1 unit of insulin sort of deals with 3mmol. My interpretation (which may be rubbish) is that you are reacting to highs rather than trying to prevent them. Most of us would try to judge how many grams of carbohydrates we will be eating and inject 20mins (approx) beforehand. Normal advice from medical people is start at 1 unit of insulin to 10g of carbs and then adjust your ratio from 1:10 to suit your own individual needs as time goes on. (It changes over time by the way.) From diagnosis it can take a while for blood sugars to stabilise (took me 12 weeks) but you really do need to do something about those numbers because they will harm your long term health. Don't you get toilet breaks, fag breaks, - can you time them to be 20-30 mins before you eat and then have a quick injection? Or inject when you can and try to eat something 20 mins afterwards. And sorry to burden you further, but you also need to manage stress, it's not good for diabetics because it's likely to raise your blood sugars. Good luck sorting this out - please come back with more questions if you need to. [/QUOTE]
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