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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Traceyroth1969" data-source="post: 2390508" data-attributes="member: 540538">yes i do sometimescarb counting is good and i find it effective to a point but i get it wrong tooi split mine i was advised by my clinic to do soi get how you feel i do its exhausting doing this in fact its a full time job ! you don't have bad control. i think all of us are affected by doing everything right and then you get this spike and its so frustrating.its never gonna be perfect!! have you spoken to your diabetes team about how you are feeling? and carb counting may be different for you you may need a different ratio of insulin for what your eating again talk to your team.and when you say its seems good on paper well that's because it is.it doesn't really lie if your doing badly it will show up.!!! all of us can do better that's just the nature of diabetes but please understand your doing so well.  and so many different foods affect people in different ways. no two diabetics are alike whether that's insulin given background or fast actingi was like this a few weeks ago myself totally fed up sick of the whole thing.my advice would be to talk to your team because what works for me may not work for you.and just accept this is a bad diabetes day let me tell you i can get myself in a right mess when my bloods spike and will not go down or I've over estimated my insulin I've been a diabetic for 16 years and I absolutely have days where it goes horribly wrong hormones can affect you, or stress and i feel i should know what's going on here but sometimes i don't !so please GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK you are doing excellent and some days i feel exactly the same as you .please take caretracey xx</blockquote>

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