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Type 1'stars R Us
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Fairygodmother
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A whole packet would take a full tummy full of insulin - 2 jelly babies = c10g carb.
And the hungry-hypo monster’s hard to resist, resisting it’s one of the hardcore T1 skills!
Great advice from everyone on how to deal with DSN advice, carb counting with a chart of carbs eaten and blood sugars before and after - and learning how to judge your own reactions. We’re all different.
I suspect the care team want to see how you respond to the carbs and the insulin before they give you set doses so keeping charts will maybe speed the process up a bit.
Fairygodmother
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Well Hamish has had a tough day, he’s been made to go downstairs ‘properly’ quite a few times, has been for a long walk and carried some shopping back from the local. He’s moaning now and being told it’s all for his own good. It’s a lovely excuse to elevate him on a couple of cushions and take it easy before I go and cook. Think he needs a glass of secco to take the edge off 
Jazz97
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DSN... I was dubious about her suggestion, but thought I would give it a go. My mistake. Just given myself a little correctional dose (though may have been too much. Gonna have a rich tea biscuit to offset that)
becca59
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Had my parents visit a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t believe it when her and her bionic knee walked up and downstairs normally. Last time I saw her things were not good following the blood thinning fiasco. She still has problems with numbness and pins and needles down the outside of her leg, but things are improving. Just need to persuade her to have the other one done now!!Well Hamish has had a tough day, he’s been made to go downstairs ‘properly’ quite a few times, has been for a long walk and carried some shopping back from the local. He’s moaning now and being told it’s all for his own good. It’s a lovely excuse to elevate him on a couple of cushions and take it easy before I go and cook. Think he needs a glass of secco to take the edge off
becca59
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All the talk with @Jazz97 makes me wonder why an earth everyone cannot carb count from the off. After my hospital discharge, I had an hours appointment with a DN, and learnt how to inject and carb count within that timespan to launch me as a Type 1. She rang everyday for a fortnight and made some insulin adjustments during that time. It is our condition and delaying correct management is not helpful with the mental and physical affects. We are not daft, give people the tools and off they will go.
Fairygodmother
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That’s brilliant Becca, so pleased for your mother?
Jazz97
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I'm gonna stop blindly following the nurses advice now. Gonna try and eat well and follow my instincts. As it's been said, it's our bodies we're dealing with, and how can these nurses truly know the ins and puts of it when they don't have to deal with it in their own bodies?
SueJB
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@evilclive I buy the bigger bags of fruit pastilles and decant................ still a problem for me. Think I'll need to go for some glucotabs but if @slip has problems, I'm stuffed.Jelly babies are my preferred immediate hypo treatment (for when I need something quickly), and I transfer them from the big bags into little ones - currently 5 in a bag. It helps with not having a tempting open bag around, not worrying about opening a bag because that might leave an open bag around, and providing a limit to stop me succumbing to THE HUNGER.
BTW easter jelly baby chicks - 2 quid for a container of about 490 grams, easter leftovers
Fairygodmother
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Becca, that should have ended with an exclamation mark: so pleased for your mother! !
Jazz97
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Yeah of course. Sorry, I came off a bit hard. The nurses when I was in hospital were all lovelyI agree with what your saying but at the end of the day they are only trying to help you and any newly diagnosed on their way, don't forget that when your face down in the gutter dribbling like an idiot, nurses will the be the ones helping and sorting you out, if you end up in A&E this goes for me and anyone else
That sounds like telling off but it is not meant to be just.........well not sure what but having worked in hospitals in the past and got to know a fair few nurses they are just ace for what they do
smc4761
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Your DSN nurse if she is any good, her advice will be valuable but remember it is just that, advice. Take the good stuff from what she tells you and in time you will get to know what works best for you and what does not work so well. Dont be afraid to challenge them, ask why they want you to do this and that.
I think you may be on fixed doses of insulin and not carb counting to give you time to adjust, the "honeymoon period". Hopefully you will be on carb counting soon.
I wont try and dress it up, it will be a constant battle and it will take up a lot of your time, thinking about carbs, test your bloods maybe 6/8 times a day, blood sugar levels, planning for going away for the day, eating out.
Once you get into a routine it will make things so much easier
I think you may be on fixed doses of insulin and not carb counting to give you time to adjust, the "honeymoon period". Hopefully you will be on carb counting soon.
I wont try and dress it up, it will be a constant battle and it will take up a lot of your time, thinking about carbs, test your bloods maybe 6/8 times a day, blood sugar levels, planning for going away for the day, eating out.
Once you get into a routine it will make things so much easier
Jazz97
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I've already signed up!
WuTwo
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I'm not only awake, washed and dressed I'm on the second coffee. Might be gonna have a third though....
Waiting to see if husband's foot pain settles down so we can go over to the neighbouring town. I want undies and tops, and I'd like to go the Grape Tree (whole food shop).
I'd like to get over to another local town that has a nut butter maker on site, and you can use it to grind the nuts you buy into nut butter at the time of purchase! I wanna play!
Waiting to see if husband's foot pain settles down so we can go over to the neighbouring town. I want undies and tops, and I'd like to go the Grape Tree (whole food shop).
I'd like to get over to another local town that has a nut butter maker on site, and you can use it to grind the nuts you buy into nut butter at the time of purchase! I wanna play!
WuTwo
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I have both that book and Using Insulin by John Walsh and others. The latter has been recently updated to include pump info I believe. I found Using Insulin much more informative but it is also far more "text book" in style. No anecdotes or chatty bits. Just straight to the facts and sticks with them throughout. I still refer to it now if I have to basal test because I can never remember the ins and outs.
ETA - It's also the book I noticed on my consultant's bookshelf. Was very amused by that.
