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<blockquote data-quote="RuthW" data-source="post: 875314" data-attributes="member: 148713"><p>When it comes to "not taking as much care", there were no DAFNE courses back then. There were no basal and bolus regimes. Nobody knew their "carb ratio". (The doctor did but never mentioned it.) Nobody knew their own factors of any kind. We staggered from accidental hyper (mistake at estimating carbs) to hypo (no mention EVER of planning a change in your insulin regime for exercise or unusual activity) when we just schlucked back dextrose tablets or whatever else we could lay our hands on. It was like trying to live on the deck of a ship in a raging sea. And when you went to the clinic, desperate, sad and exhausted, unable to make sense of it all, you got a "telling off" because of course it was your fault, wasn't it? You were "non-compliant." Oh the bad old days!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RuthW, post: 875314, member: 148713"] When it comes to "not taking as much care", there were no DAFNE courses back then. There were no basal and bolus regimes. Nobody knew their "carb ratio". (The doctor did but never mentioned it.) Nobody knew their own factors of any kind. We staggered from accidental hyper (mistake at estimating carbs) to hypo (no mention EVER of planning a change in your insulin regime for exercise or unusual activity) when we just schlucked back dextrose tablets or whatever else we could lay our hands on. It was like trying to live on the deck of a ship in a raging sea. And when you went to the clinic, desperate, sad and exhausted, unable to make sense of it all, you got a "telling off" because of course it was your fault, wasn't it? You were "non-compliant." Oh the bad old days! [/QUOTE]
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