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<blockquote data-quote="Japes" data-source="post: 2118579" data-attributes="member: 277410"><p>Thanks for the tag. [USER=206249]@Diakat[/USER] and welcome back [USER=108124]@mrbroons[/USER] .</p><p></p><p>I was originally diagnosed as T2 just over 4 years ago, went down the meds/low and lower carb diet/exercise and ever-increasing exercise route which worked really well. Until it didn't. Then I was referred to the diabetes clinic, re-diagnosed LADA 18 months ago and went straight onto basal/bolus at that point with hysterical nurses in the clinic at my first appointment as to how I was still standing, why hadn't I done anything about it (I had, oh I really had!) and wanting to hospitalise me on the spot. The consultant concluded I was probably OK to be let loose with a whole load of instructions as to when to come to A & E if necessary.</p><p></p><p>For me, the fact that I'm now on insulin and I can eat a wider variety of food, and not have to exercise to keep bloods down was a massive relief and that ultimately with LADA as an autoimmune disease no amount of controlling with food/exercise was going to work without insulin.</p><p></p><p>I still do a fair amount of exercise to help keep the blood sugars behaving and to help with insulin sensitivity. I'm still careful about what I eat, but make sure I try to get the insulin right. I'm definitely not someone who can just eat what I like and cover it with insulin, but I certainly don't miss out on occasional treats when I feel like them</p><p></p><p>It's well worth learning to carb count and worth learning how exercise affects blood sugars. I was taught basic carb counting with the nurse when I was first put on insulin, and a month later we'd worked out enough between us to let me loose adjusting my doses. I'm hoping to get on a DAFNE course before Christmas.</p><p></p><p>Also worth making sure you always, always have something available to treat the hypos! I'm nowhere near as scared of hypos as I used to be as I've now a pretty good idea of how much I need to bring me back up without going to really high numbers.again. Also well aware now that what works this week may not work next especially as I still have occasional moments of my pancreas spluttering into life again. (Think it's woken up this morning for some inexplicable reason.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Japes, post: 2118579, member: 277410"] Thanks for the tag. [USER=206249]@Diakat[/USER] and welcome back [USER=108124]@mrbroons[/USER] . I was originally diagnosed as T2 just over 4 years ago, went down the meds/low and lower carb diet/exercise and ever-increasing exercise route which worked really well. Until it didn't. Then I was referred to the diabetes clinic, re-diagnosed LADA 18 months ago and went straight onto basal/bolus at that point with hysterical nurses in the clinic at my first appointment as to how I was still standing, why hadn't I done anything about it (I had, oh I really had!) and wanting to hospitalise me on the spot. The consultant concluded I was probably OK to be let loose with a whole load of instructions as to when to come to A & E if necessary. For me, the fact that I'm now on insulin and I can eat a wider variety of food, and not have to exercise to keep bloods down was a massive relief and that ultimately with LADA as an autoimmune disease no amount of controlling with food/exercise was going to work without insulin. I still do a fair amount of exercise to help keep the blood sugars behaving and to help with insulin sensitivity. I'm still careful about what I eat, but make sure I try to get the insulin right. I'm definitely not someone who can just eat what I like and cover it with insulin, but I certainly don't miss out on occasional treats when I feel like them It's well worth learning to carb count and worth learning how exercise affects blood sugars. I was taught basic carb counting with the nurse when I was first put on insulin, and a month later we'd worked out enough between us to let me loose adjusting my doses. I'm hoping to get on a DAFNE course before Christmas. Also worth making sure you always, always have something available to treat the hypos! I'm nowhere near as scared of hypos as I used to be as I've now a pretty good idea of how much I need to bring me back up without going to really high numbers.again. Also well aware now that what works this week may not work next especially as I still have occasional moments of my pancreas spluttering into life again. (Think it's woken up this morning for some inexplicable reason.) [/QUOTE]
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