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<blockquote data-quote="Albee7740" data-source="post: 2141944" data-attributes="member: 274663"><p>It makes sense to me that healthcare professionals might not want to overload someone who has recently been placed on insulin with too much information by introducing the idea of carb counting as well, but my view is that we should be given all the information we need to manage our condition (perhaps in take home leaflets as well as verbally) rather than taking a paternalistic attitude and treating patients like children.</p><p></p><p>I had really poor experience of healthcare support with respect to my diabetes and told to ensure that I ate carbs with each meal (the plate should be half carbs) and being "a good girl" I did as I was told with by HbA1c getting progressively worse. I became pregnant (unplanned) with an extremely high HbA1c told to terminate and unfortunately lost the baby. At this time I was placed on insulin and told that my HbA1c need to be 42 or below at the time of conception if we were to try to conceive.</p><p></p><p>I couldn't see how that would be possible when I had followed every piece of the limited advice I was given by the professionals. I found this website and discovered low carbing and other pieces of useful information and threw myself into the advice I found here - which often seems to be the opposite of what I had been told to do for years!</p><p></p><p>But if more the my meter readings are correct and my HbA1c is what I estimate it to be I will continue to ignore the advice given! I had a less brave moment when posting this thread thinking that I might have missed something as everything I have read about carb counting has been Type 1 related....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Albee7740, post: 2141944, member: 274663"] It makes sense to me that healthcare professionals might not want to overload someone who has recently been placed on insulin with too much information by introducing the idea of carb counting as well, but my view is that we should be given all the information we need to manage our condition (perhaps in take home leaflets as well as verbally) rather than taking a paternalistic attitude and treating patients like children. I had really poor experience of healthcare support with respect to my diabetes and told to ensure that I ate carbs with each meal (the plate should be half carbs) and being "a good girl" I did as I was told with by HbA1c getting progressively worse. I became pregnant (unplanned) with an extremely high HbA1c told to terminate and unfortunately lost the baby. At this time I was placed on insulin and told that my HbA1c need to be 42 or below at the time of conception if we were to try to conceive. I couldn't see how that would be possible when I had followed every piece of the limited advice I was given by the professionals. I found this website and discovered low carbing and other pieces of useful information and threw myself into the advice I found here - which often seems to be the opposite of what I had been told to do for years! But if more the my meter readings are correct and my HbA1c is what I estimate it to be I will continue to ignore the advice given! I had a less brave moment when posting this thread thinking that I might have missed something as everything I have read about carb counting has been Type 1 related.... [/QUOTE]
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