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Fairygodmother said:
I gain weight too easily and have a gatherer mentality: brambles, crab apples, garden and hedgerow fruit, and anything that exhibits pleasing design and skill, if I can afford it. I think a lot of people are the same. The only way to stay in control of weight is to eat less and hold back on the cheese. I love big tasting cheese! With marmite. With crab apple jelly. With Branston pickle. With gherkins (or wallys if that’s your dialect). On toast, in salads, on top of fish. Oh dear, time to think about something else.
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@Fairygodmother I luv cheese too but only allow myself it once a week, no crab apples and not that many berries.
 
SueJB said:
I agree about the weight thingy and age and I've been trying, unsuccessfully since being T1D, to stop the creep.
My insulin for a whole day depends but generally
Levemir =10units
Novorapid = 0units to an occasional and I mean very occasional 1 or 2

Last night was the exception when I woke sweating like a pig, heart hammering BG 2.1, over-corrected becoz I was scared, I've never been so low and felt so alone and fearful.
This morning naturally came from the depths to the giddy height of 13.8, just like @helensaramay was saying. Madam yoyo better get a grip.
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Good luck. Liver dumps are a system wrecker, but they can eventually be subdued.
Hope your brain’s feeling more stable now too. The way a lack of energy to power it affects thought and physical processes can be very unnerving, but you’re back. Liver dumps have an upside that’s hard to remember when you’re pumping in insulin and to get the bs down again. There’s often a post-hypo reluctance to allow exogenous insulin to do it’s job so getting he balance between too much and too little’s sometimes a careful, and patient, balancing act.
 
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Fairygodmother said:
I gain weight too easily and have a gatherer mentality: brambles, crab apples, garden and hedgerow fruit, and anything that exhibits pleasing design and skill, if I can afford it. I think a lot of people are the same. The only way to stay in control of weight is to eat less and hold back on the cheese. I love big tasting cheese! With marmite. With crab apple jelly. With Branston pickle. With gherkins (or wallys if that’s your dialect). On toast, in salads, on top of fish. Oh dear, time to think about something else.
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I can understand @Fairygodmother that cardboard does not garner the same attraction as these other substances. And we lack the digestive system also to absorb it.
And if we all lived in Siberia, the Artic etc the pickings could be very sparse.
I hope you can balance out your food and insulin to best effect.

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kitedoc said:
I can understand @Fairygodmother that cardboard does not garner the same attraction as these other substances. And living in Siberia, the Artic etc would rob us of your company. I hope you can balance out your food and insulin to best effect.

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Thank you @kitedoc. I wonder if the indigenous people of the arctic regions had any T1 when living mainly on hunted fish and flesh?
 
Having a cataract removed on Wednesday 40 miles away in West Cumberland Hospital

I’m getting a bit nervous
 
Cumberland said:
Having a cataract removed on Wednesday 40 miles away in West Cumberland Hospital

I’m getting a bit nervous
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The nerves are understandable Cumbs - all those horror images of being stabbed in the eye etc. When I had it done I was shaking like a leaf in the waiting and prep area but it’s not a nasty procedure. There was a dose of sedatives beforehand that helped, the local anaesthetic was totally effective and the new lens is brilliant!
Your hills (and crags and peaks and lakes) will be alive again
 
SueJB said:
I agree about the weight thingy and age and I've been trying, unsuccessfully since being T1D, to stop the creep.
My insulin for a whole day depends but generally
Levemir =10units
Novorapid = 0units to an occasional and I mean very occasional 1 or 2

Last night was the exception when I woke sweating like a pig, heart hammering BG 2.1, over-corrected becoz I was scared, I've never been so low and felt so alone and fearful.
This morning naturally came from the depths to the giddy height of 13.8, just like @helensaramay was saying. Madam yoyo better get a grip.
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OMG those amounts, I know we are all different and its amazing by how much. Typically I will take around 25--30 units of Novoslow, and thats only because I have reduced my carb intake. This time last year I was taking about 220 g of carbs and taking around 40 units of Novoslow.

My Levemir is 18 units in morning and 26 units at night. Maybe because I have been Type 1 for soo long 37 years i have built up some insulin resistance, My ratios for Novoslow are typically 1:3 for brekkie and 1:5 for other meals.

What ratios / amounts of insulin do others take?
 
Fairygodmother said:
The nerves are understandable Cumbs - all those horror images of being stabbed in the eye etc. When I had it done I was shaking like a leaf in the waiting and prep area but it’s not a nasty procedure. There was a dose of sedatives beforehand that helped, the local anaesthetic was totally effective and the new lens is brilliant!
Your hills (and crags and peaks and lakes) will be alive again
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Thanks FG it’s just the thought of the needle makes my tummy churn
 
smc4761 said:
OMG those amounts, I know we are all different and its amazing by how much. Typically I will take around 25--30 units of Novoslow, and thats only because I have reduced my carb intake. This time last year I was taking about 220 g of carbs and taking around 40 units of Novoslow.

My Levemir is 18 units in morning and 26 units at night. Maybe because I have been Type 1 for soo long 37 years i have built up some insulin resistance, My ratios for Novoslow are typically 1:3 for brekkie and 1:5 for other meals.

What ratios / amounts of insulin do others take?
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I inject a lot of insulin

Basal (Toujeo) 220-230 units once daily

Bolus (Novorapid) ratio is 5 units for every 10g carbs (+ or - correction dose)
 
smc4761 said:
What ratios / amounts of insulin do others take?
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I weigh 80kg, I use 17u Tresiba and between 14 -18u Humalog a day and eat around 200g complex carbs.

Humalog as in 5.5u for 50g carbs breakfast, 1 - 2u mid day correction/food bolus (depends on if I'm swimming) possible 1u afternoon correction and 6 - 8.5u for tea, possibly 1 -2u for supper Weetabix.
 
Cumberland said:
Thanks FG it’s just the thought of the needle makes my tummy churn
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Eyes and needles..... tummy churning would be the least of my concerns. It’s what would be twitching that would be of greater concern ;););).
Apparently, according to a few people I know it’s an amazing op to have done and the end results are also amazing.
Good luck:)
 
10 units Levemir morning, 7 units Levemir bedtime, 1.5 units Novorapid per 10g carbs at breakfast, and 1 unit per 10g carbs for the rest of the day. Usually between 3 - 5 units for most meals, but it can and does vary.

Breakfast is invariably a banana and yogurt, with some toast as well if I'm off for a day's walk, but bolus amounts will really depend on what I wake up on and if Madame DP has been going wild!

My usual workday lunch needs 3 units or less if I've been really active. I've taken to my main meal at lunch time on Sundays and Saturdays if I'm home and about to walk in the afternoon.

Evening meal - that's where the variety is! Anything between 0 and 10 units, mostly around 3 - 5 - with a record of 12 the first time I tested chips.
 
Cumberland said:
Having a cataract removed on Wednesday 40 miles away in West Cumberland Hospital

I’m getting a bit nervous
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Good luck Cumbs. it's the unknown that's the scariest, especially when it involves the eyes, but I'm sure you will be just fine and it will be all over and done with soon.
Good Luck x
 
smc4761 said:
Wow @Cumberland that is serious amount of insulin, guessing you must have been type 1 for many years
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I'm coming up to 30 years and my Insulin doses' have changed recently, as I am taking a little less, but a few years ago I was taking about 30/31 units of bolus and basal per day.
 
I’ve been T1 for 49 years - 8.5 u Levemir in the morning, and 8 at night. 1.5 u Fiasp for morning fotf or dp, whatever but can be skipped if few carbs at supper. 1:1 ratio for Fiasp but sometimes 1 extra in the mornings though not if I’ve been active the day before. The wretched knackety knee’s blown the lovely exercise-improved insulin utilisation but that’s another story.
I think the age at which we were diagnosed may influence the amount of insulin required too, not just the time that’s passed since diagnosis.
 
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