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<blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 1156468" data-attributes="member: 88961"><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>May I ask a further question? When you say you've always struggled with your diet, do you mean not enjoying what you eat, struggling to make effective dietary choices or something else?</p><p></p><p>My discomfiture is if you go onto insulin, you are at risk of swapping one roller-coaster for another. </p><p></p><p>Sadly, we see a number of diabetics, using insulin who remark on the significant swings in blood numbers they experience - correcting for very high numbers, then suffering a hypo as they over-shoot, by mis-timing, miscalculation or their pancreas slinging some of their own insulin into the mix.</p><p></p><p>I have no experience of this, either personally, nor clinically, but if your diet isn't so well controlled it could be difficult to get a grasp on things. If you were to use mixed insulins, that requires the diabetic to consume the same number of carbs at roughly the same time each day. If you were to use MDI, you have the flexibility to flex your dose to what you eat, but that depends on diligent carb counting, testing, reviewing and adjusting.</p><p></p><p>In your shoes, if I were to have to go through all of those learning curves, I might be inclined to explore giving my diet a real bit of focus to see if I could smooth some of those bumps in the road.</p><p></p><p>I could be very wrong, and I do reiterate, I have no experience of this, but I am an avid reader and observer.</p><p></p><p>Whatever you decide to do, I hope it turns out well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndBreathe, post: 1156468, member: 88961"] May I ask a further question? When you say you've always struggled with your diet, do you mean not enjoying what you eat, struggling to make effective dietary choices or something else? My discomfiture is if you go onto insulin, you are at risk of swapping one roller-coaster for another. Sadly, we see a number of diabetics, using insulin who remark on the significant swings in blood numbers they experience - correcting for very high numbers, then suffering a hypo as they over-shoot, by mis-timing, miscalculation or their pancreas slinging some of their own insulin into the mix. I have no experience of this, either personally, nor clinically, but if your diet isn't so well controlled it could be difficult to get a grasp on things. If you were to use mixed insulins, that requires the diabetic to consume the same number of carbs at roughly the same time each day. If you were to use MDI, you have the flexibility to flex your dose to what you eat, but that depends on diligent carb counting, testing, reviewing and adjusting. In your shoes, if I were to have to go through all of those learning curves, I might be inclined to explore giving my diet a real bit of focus to see if I could smooth some of those bumps in the road. I could be very wrong, and I do reiterate, I have no experience of this, but I am an avid reader and observer. Whatever you decide to do, I hope it turns out well. [/QUOTE]
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