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<blockquote data-quote="Chook" data-source="post: 1489472" data-attributes="member: 24561"><p>[USER=91555]@Alison Campbell[/USER] - you called??? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> <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>I don't know how helpful I can be as my experience of insulin wasn't very good. I definitely put on a stone for each of the five years that I was using it. I also took Metformin and Sitagliptin (not sure of the spelling of that one).</p><p></p><p>On diagnosis my BG was 17.8 and I was told to treat it with eatwell plate diet and lifestyle changes.</p><p></p><p>A couple of years later (despite that diet) my BG was very high - well over 30 - which was when my DN started me on a low dose of Lantus which I increased every three days - the intention was that I would increase this until I got to a point where my BG was testing OK. It took about two months of steadily increasing (and daily phone calls from the DN) before we both realised that wasn't going to happen so she added in Novorapid which I injected just before meals. At first I was injecting a fixed amount and couldn't seem to get my levels correct - sometimes I was low but mostly high. I was a bit of a mess really. </p><p></p><p>After a friend went on a carb counting course I decided that made sense and was my best option but (I don't know why) I wasn't sent on a course even though I asked my DN and GP and over the next few years I occasionally repeated my request but was never offered to go on one. So - and I wouldn't recommend this - I did it on my own. I read loads on-line and photocopied my friend's course literature and did my best. And it worked to an extent but I honestly say that I didn't like the whole injecting thing and one afternoon I made a mistake with my insulin that forced me to decide to at least try to come off it which I eventually managed to do.</p><p></p><p>As you can see from my signature, I am no longer using insulin - I eat a very low carb diet and am careful to test my BG seven or more times a day - just as I get up, two hours after breakfast, just before lunch, two hours after lunch, just before dinner and two hours after. The last test is just before going to bed. I also test if I feel 'not right' in any way. The struggle to get down to good BG numbers was very long but it was worth it in the end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chook, post: 1489472, member: 24561"] [USER=91555]@Alison Campbell[/USER] - you called??? :) :) I don't know how helpful I can be as my experience of insulin wasn't very good. I definitely put on a stone for each of the five years that I was using it. I also took Metformin and Sitagliptin (not sure of the spelling of that one). On diagnosis my BG was 17.8 and I was told to treat it with eatwell plate diet and lifestyle changes. A couple of years later (despite that diet) my BG was very high - well over 30 - which was when my DN started me on a low dose of Lantus which I increased every three days - the intention was that I would increase this until I got to a point where my BG was testing OK. It took about two months of steadily increasing (and daily phone calls from the DN) before we both realised that wasn't going to happen so she added in Novorapid which I injected just before meals. At first I was injecting a fixed amount and couldn't seem to get my levels correct - sometimes I was low but mostly high. I was a bit of a mess really. After a friend went on a carb counting course I decided that made sense and was my best option but (I don't know why) I wasn't sent on a course even though I asked my DN and GP and over the next few years I occasionally repeated my request but was never offered to go on one. So - and I wouldn't recommend this - I did it on my own. I read loads on-line and photocopied my friend's course literature and did my best. And it worked to an extent but I honestly say that I didn't like the whole injecting thing and one afternoon I made a mistake with my insulin that forced me to decide to at least try to come off it which I eventually managed to do. As you can see from my signature, I am no longer using insulin - I eat a very low carb diet and am careful to test my BG seven or more times a day - just as I get up, two hours after breakfast, just before lunch, two hours after lunch, just before dinner and two hours after. The last test is just before going to bed. I also test if I feel 'not right' in any way. The struggle to get down to good BG numbers was very long but it was worth it in the end. [/QUOTE]
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