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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JontyW" data-source="post: 356515" data-attributes="member: 40312">Hi Alistair,While you wait for a DAFNE course to be available, this document from Diabetes UK "An introduction to carbohydrate counting and insulin dose adjustment" (<a href="https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/usr/downloads/Carbs-Count-2012-reduced.pdf" target="_blank">https://shop.diabetes.org.uk/usr/downlo ... educed.pdf</a>) explains all you really need to know about carb counting and insulin adjustment. I don't know what insulin regime you are on but you really need to be on a basal/bolus regime using slow acting Lantus or Levemir, plus fast acting Humalog, Novorapid or Apidra to match the carbs in each meal.I've been a T1 for 43 years and only in the last 6 months, since finding this excellent website, did I learn about accurate carb counting, insulin-carb ratios and how to get even better control than I had managed previously using common sense, experience and guesswork. In my experience I found that reading this ebook really explained it well, and my understanding is that the content is what is taught on a DAFNE course. So you really need to get going on learning all these new techniques to achieve good control and avoid the long term complications.Jonty</blockquote>

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