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<blockquote data-quote="megan" data-source="post: 532646" data-attributes="member: 6160"><p>hi, thanks for your reply....... I've been carb counting after doing DAFNE years ago. I am not eating any carbs at the moment and my diabetes dr told me not to take any novo when I don't have any carbs in my meal. I told her my sugars would go up any way and she told me not to take the novo on a no carb meal anyway..... but I do have to take a correctional before the meal. I take a blood test. its normally high and so I calculate what I have to take 'in theory' , what that correctional will need...which is 1:1 ratio.</p><p></p><p>I have lived with high sugars for years and hate it with a passion....and its not through a lack of effort on my part to get it down. I have tried everything I can possibly think of including metformin, gliclazide and byetta.</p><p></p><p>one antibiotic helped loads but its one rare side effect is severe hypos (which is what would have been happening had I not reduced my insulin by a 3rd over the week I was on the tablets).....so ideally I would want that antibiotic without the antibiotic part to help bring down my sugars and insulin requirement.......dr told me that was gliclazide.....but he let me try it for 6 weeks and it didn't do any thing at the time.</p><p>so back to the drawing board.</p><p></p><p>I am carefully increasing my basal dose to try to get my sugars down and reduce the need for quite so many correctional doses. so you see I feel a little misunderstood, I am still taking novo and I am not purposely running my sugars high....I hope I have cleared this up and am open to suggestions all the time so please don't hesitate to respond back if you get any more thoughts <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>I have also had more contact with dieticians than I can shake a stick at.................checked out the GI of foods and of course over the years how my body reacts to them. I am overweight and this is what I have been trying to improve to help my insulin matters....but alas am having no luck so far and this is years of effort.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>going back over dr bernsteins book again........I'll keep plodding along but I am miserable with it.......and am so uncomfortable with the bloating I cannot drink any more water and my food is reducing further as the bloating and indigestion is horrible.</p><p>found out today that my referral to gastro team didn't go through when it was meant to and now I have another age to wait!!!</p><p></p><p>however 9 weeks after referral for tummy scan I do have that appoint finally come through.......blimey.......I can't help but feel there is something being missed and when found it will help to make things easier....I have to hope eh <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>thanks guys</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megan, post: 532646, member: 6160"] hi, thanks for your reply....... I've been carb counting after doing DAFNE years ago. I am not eating any carbs at the moment and my diabetes dr told me not to take any novo when I don't have any carbs in my meal. I told her my sugars would go up any way and she told me not to take the novo on a no carb meal anyway..... but I do have to take a correctional before the meal. I take a blood test. its normally high and so I calculate what I have to take 'in theory' , what that correctional will need...which is 1:1 ratio. I have lived with high sugars for years and hate it with a passion....and its not through a lack of effort on my part to get it down. I have tried everything I can possibly think of including metformin, gliclazide and byetta. one antibiotic helped loads but its one rare side effect is severe hypos (which is what would have been happening had I not reduced my insulin by a 3rd over the week I was on the tablets).....so ideally I would want that antibiotic without the antibiotic part to help bring down my sugars and insulin requirement.......dr told me that was gliclazide.....but he let me try it for 6 weeks and it didn't do any thing at the time. so back to the drawing board. I am carefully increasing my basal dose to try to get my sugars down and reduce the need for quite so many correctional doses. so you see I feel a little misunderstood, I am still taking novo and I am not purposely running my sugars high....I hope I have cleared this up and am open to suggestions all the time so please don't hesitate to respond back if you get any more thoughts :) I have also had more contact with dieticians than I can shake a stick at.................checked out the GI of foods and of course over the years how my body reacts to them. I am overweight and this is what I have been trying to improve to help my insulin matters....but alas am having no luck so far and this is years of effort.:( going back over dr bernsteins book again........I'll keep plodding along but I am miserable with it.......and am so uncomfortable with the bloating I cannot drink any more water and my food is reducing further as the bloating and indigestion is horrible. found out today that my referral to gastro team didn't go through when it was meant to and now I have another age to wait!!! however 9 weeks after referral for tummy scan I do have that appoint finally come through.......blimey.......I can't help but feel there is something being missed and when found it will help to make things easier....I have to hope eh :) thanks guys [/QUOTE]
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