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Type 1: When's the last time you had a hypo?
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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1388686" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, Bob, I see you're newly dx'd. Imagine an old fashioned set of balancing scales - you've got insulin in one pan and carbs in the other. The only problem is that there's dozens of things going on in the background which are shoogling the table the scales are sitting on. You can neither measure nor control those things. Liver is the obvious one, both releases and takes back glucose - my DSN calls it "a sly wee f***er". So, while carb counting is a good starting point, it's inevitable that something will happen which throws it out from time to time. It's frustrating but I've come to terms with it by realising that if something messes up it's either down to me miscalculating, in which case I'll learn from it, or it's just part of the inevitably random nature of the condition about which I can do nothing.</p><p></p><p>Noticed you had cheese on toast i.e. a mini pizza. You'll read about the pizza effect. The fatty cheese will slow down absorption of glucose from stomach to bloodstream so there's a chance thst even if your carb counting is fine the insulin will have got to work before it's got any glucose to work on. Timing of dose often plays a part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1388686, member: 374531"] Hi, Bob, I see you're newly dx'd. Imagine an old fashioned set of balancing scales - you've got insulin in one pan and carbs in the other. The only problem is that there's dozens of things going on in the background which are shoogling the table the scales are sitting on. You can neither measure nor control those things. Liver is the obvious one, both releases and takes back glucose - my DSN calls it "a sly wee f***er". So, while carb counting is a good starting point, it's inevitable that something will happen which throws it out from time to time. It's frustrating but I've come to terms with it by realising that if something messes up it's either down to me miscalculating, in which case I'll learn from it, or it's just part of the inevitably random nature of the condition about which I can do nothing. Noticed you had cheese on toast i.e. a mini pizza. You'll read about the pizza effect. The fatty cheese will slow down absorption of glucose from stomach to bloodstream so there's a chance thst even if your carb counting is fine the insulin will have got to work before it's got any glucose to work on. Timing of dose often plays a part. [/QUOTE]
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