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<blockquote data-quote="TashT1" data-source="post: 2391105" data-attributes="member: 526953"><p>Hi Mandie, I’m glad you found the forum early into diagnosis as it will really help, there’s lots of people to support you. </p><p></p><p>Some clinicians aren’t a fan of low carb diets, especially for type 1’s who in theory can eat whatever. The tricky part is that you can only eat what you want if you know the correct dose of bolus to give. Are you using novarapid or something else? </p><p></p><p>In the beginning it might make sense not to make too many diet changes, this will give you opportunity to see how your body responds to fixed doses of insulin & a baseline of data to work from. Right now your team should be helping to adjust your basal & bolus doses to bring those numbers down. </p><p></p><p>It’s unclear from your post whether you are fasting or just eating low carb? What are your numbers like before & after meals? If you are not already keeping a food diary you should, there are various apps that can help you with this & you can get into the habit of carb counting. Carbs & Cals is a good app, weighing scales are also an essential item. </p><p></p><p>After about a month I switched to a low carb diet & got good results but I did it by figuring out how many carbs I could eat within my fixed dose of insulin. I then used this info to work out a carb to insulin ration & began varying my insulin doses based on the carbs I planned to eat. It’s a lot of trial & error, you need to be confident that you can deal with hypos if you make a mistake. That was just how I approached it & it will be different for everyone. </p><p></p><p>As for needles I had an issue with this at first & some mini meltdowns trying to psych myself up. I don’t like needles but know I can force myself to do it. After 9 months it’s less of an issue. If you found smaller needles better you can get your diabetes nurse to change your prescription. I use 4mm but I think there are smaller ones. Injecting for me isn’t pain free, I often hit blood or a nerve. As you go along you’ll find sites that are better than others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TashT1, post: 2391105, member: 526953"] Hi Mandie, I’m glad you found the forum early into diagnosis as it will really help, there’s lots of people to support you. Some clinicians aren’t a fan of low carb diets, especially for type 1’s who in theory can eat whatever. The tricky part is that you can only eat what you want if you know the correct dose of bolus to give. Are you using novarapid or something else? In the beginning it might make sense not to make too many diet changes, this will give you opportunity to see how your body responds to fixed doses of insulin & a baseline of data to work from. Right now your team should be helping to adjust your basal & bolus doses to bring those numbers down. It’s unclear from your post whether you are fasting or just eating low carb? What are your numbers like before & after meals? If you are not already keeping a food diary you should, there are various apps that can help you with this & you can get into the habit of carb counting. Carbs & Cals is a good app, weighing scales are also an essential item. After about a month I switched to a low carb diet & got good results but I did it by figuring out how many carbs I could eat within my fixed dose of insulin. I then used this info to work out a carb to insulin ration & began varying my insulin doses based on the carbs I planned to eat. It’s a lot of trial & error, you need to be confident that you can deal with hypos if you make a mistake. That was just how I approached it & it will be different for everyone. As for needles I had an issue with this at first & some mini meltdowns trying to psych myself up. I don’t like needles but know I can force myself to do it. After 9 months it’s less of an issue. If you found smaller needles better you can get your diabetes nurse to change your prescription. I use 4mm but I think there are smaller ones. Injecting for me isn’t pain free, I often hit blood or a nerve. As you go along you’ll find sites that are better than others. [/QUOTE]
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