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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1966944" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Sorry, but I've got to say that I think those questions are irrelevant in a T1 context.</p><p></p><p>T1 biology is fundamentally different to T2. We have much more latitude with carbs.</p><p></p><p>With T1, the main question is here is a meal, how much insulin do I need for it?</p><p></p><p>That doesn't mean injecting industrial volumes of insulin, it just means applying a bit of moderation with portion sizes.</p><p></p><p>We get a lot of newly dx'd T1s signing up here for advice. Because there are many more T2s here than T1s, they can become swamped by the persistent "carbs are bad, avoid insulin" message, which might be fine in a T2 context, but is wrong in a T1 context.</p><p></p><p>I can think of several T1 posters who have ended up wary, and in some instances, terrified, of eating a modest amount of carbs.</p><p></p><p>That is totally unnecessary, but it happens because there is so much comment about carbs being negative and the poor newly dx'd T1 doesn't yet realise that the noise is coming from someone with an entirely different condition.</p><p></p><p>If you were to start a thread posing your questions, the answers would probably be, right, that's a bit of cheesecake, call it 40g, mibbe needs 6u, but still got 2u declining from last bolus, and trending down, so maybe tweak to 5. The answer would, hopefully, never be I can't eat that because people on a website with a different condition told me to not eat carbs.</p><p></p><p>Edited by moderator to remove inflammatory comments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1966944, member: 374531"] Sorry, but I've got to say that I think those questions are irrelevant in a T1 context. T1 biology is fundamentally different to T2. We have much more latitude with carbs. With T1, the main question is here is a meal, how much insulin do I need for it? That doesn't mean injecting industrial volumes of insulin, it just means applying a bit of moderation with portion sizes. We get a lot of newly dx'd T1s signing up here for advice. Because there are many more T2s here than T1s, they can become swamped by the persistent "carbs are bad, avoid insulin" message, which might be fine in a T2 context, but is wrong in a T1 context. I can think of several T1 posters who have ended up wary, and in some instances, terrified, of eating a modest amount of carbs. That is totally unnecessary, but it happens because there is so much comment about carbs being negative and the poor newly dx'd T1 doesn't yet realise that the noise is coming from someone with an entirely different condition. If you were to start a thread posing your questions, the answers would probably be, right, that's a bit of cheesecake, call it 40g, mibbe needs 6u, but still got 2u declining from last bolus, and trending down, so maybe tweak to 5. The answer would, hopefully, never be I can't eat that because people on a website with a different condition told me to not eat carbs. Edited by moderator to remove inflammatory comments. [/QUOTE]
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