new graduate today

Hi, i had the last day of the DAFNE course today and am so pleased i went. After many years of abusing my diabetes its time to start again and control my diabetes.
Cant believe i can eat anything now (with the right insulin) I thought the course was great, got new needles, have been taken off of lantus and put onto levemir twice a day which seems to be doing the job, although ive had quite a few hypos (which i hate). Hopefully things will settle down and i will be in control for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Congratulations!

Don't be in a rush to get things perfect, they probably never will be. Just keep looking for patterns and making adjustments (one at a time, with two days minimum in between) and the improvement you have noticed will continue, and get better. Well done, and the best of luck.

Roger

Congratulations, and welcome to the forum.....

Sound advice from Roger there. I am constantly learning new things about my diabetic control, however still dont have perfect control.....................

Levemir is much more felxible, and although everyone is different, I believe everyone should be on it...............[Levemire Lover.... ].....

I felt the same as you after the course, I just couldnt believe how I was just letting life pass by with no clue about my diabetes, it will never be the same after DAFNE.............and its a shame funding cuts are cutting people out of getting the basic education they deserve...........

I look forward to hearing from you..............

I also had my last day on the DAFNE course yesterday, in a different centre and have written a post in its forum. I found the course and the tutors to be very helpful and informative. By the end of the week my tests were pretty normal and I was very happy with that.

This morning my BG iwas high. I had worked late last night, writing, got a hypo of 3.3 and had eaten too many carbs to correct it. had also woken up late, a change from 5am to 10am so that threw the balance out too with the BI. I was shocked at how high it was, nonetheless. But I will try much harder not to let it happen again. Being back at home full-time where I had developed the bad habits, the course was helping me overcome, is a bit daunting - I know where the temptations lie. I should not have taken so many carbs for the mild hypo [had unerestimated the carb ratio at the time] or slept in so late. I will wait a couple of days before making considering making any changes to my BI, and have corrected the high BG with QA.

Thank God for DAFNE! In my 30 years of a diabetic I have never seen such an excellent and positive intervention in patient care. It is up to me now, and that is where I have to be self-disciplined about tests and ratios. Bought kitchen weighing scales, it arrived today, and am looking forward to be able to look at my diary without such high or low tests again Despite my bad result this morning - I do not feel as helpless and have more confidence in getting it back on track. I am also glad that this site is here. Don't have my centre code to show I am a graduate.

I hope it and the DAFNE course will be around and evolving for many years for the benefit of so many diabetics. I look forward to the day when the numbers of people with different kinds of diabetes is reversed. I think that DAFNE can and is making a big difference to the lives of Type 1 Diabetics and I aim to be one of them

Mairead

Hi Samshine

Congrats on completing the course. I also completed the course yesterday aswell. I feel i will be more in control of my diabetes than it being in control of me . Today is the 1st day of doing it dafne style without having the tutors around me and i feel i am doing well so far. I am also on levimir and have been on it for a year or so but i have now divided my units and take them 12 hours apart. Seems to be working well. I still cant get over that i can eat nearly anything aslong as i count it for insulin. I had cocopops for my breakfast the other morning for the first time in 13 years and they tasted gooooood
Laney

my first day after the DAFNE course has been a bit strange , i had a low before beakfast, a good blood four hours later, i had a late lunch but my bg had gone up by 4mmol in 2 hours?? I have done my correction with my lunch and will wait to see my dinner bg.

I have been hard on myself to get the right results but ended up getting upset when they were very high. I have struggled with the self disciplin but will do my best to look after myself, DAFNE has taught my not to expect to much too soon.
Its a new start for me and my diabetes and hope to get there in the end. DAFNE should be there for every type 1 and agree its a shame that funding makes it hard for people to get the support which is greatly needed to help to understand diabetes and how the insulin works with cp's.

I want to be in control of my diabetes not my diabetes controlling me.

Welcome
Take your time.
Don't be hard on yourself.
We all peak out after meals. Try to focus on the result before the next meal - not on the results in between as they will almost always be above range...If they are not you might have a hypo before your next meal.
As you mentioned this is the time to be disciplined, take a long term view of things and only change one thing at a time to ensure you fully understand the effect of any change made.
Depending upon the insulin types that you use, you will find that the rate of Blood Glucose reduction per hour....if you want to think of it like that...varies with time of day, last BG, work load, stress and many more things besides
Introduce too many variables....into the the complex machine that is us....and you will find it difficult to understand what is going on.
Regards
Garry

LaneyH82 said:
Hi Samshine

Congrats on completing the course. I also completed the course yesterday aswell. I feel i will be more in control of my diabetes than it being in control of me . Today is the 1st day of doing it dafne style without having the tutors around me and i feel i am doing well so far. I am also on levimir and have been on it for a year or so but i have now divided my units and take them 12 hours apart. Seems to be working well. I still cant get over that i can eat nearly anything aslong as i count it for insulin. I had cocopops for my breakfast the other morning for the first time in 13 years and they tasted gooooood
Laney

Hi my names Billie I have been graduate since early January. It's the best course I ever did even tho over a month I still get high readings I don't feel terrified each time I look at my BG machine. I now fully understand what is wrong with me and have the tools to help me try to control what,s going on in my body lol. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 2008 then went on to learn I was type1 I won't lie it was total life changer, I think I was in denial for a long while. But there was no change over from midwife to doc so was really having hard time was hospitalised 3 times last year due to ketois that when I was noticed as needing help. That's how I ended up doing DAFNE, I personally believe it should be compulsory for all type ones.
I truly believe without DAFNE I would have continued to be hospitalised and would never have learnt to control the disease it would have consumed me eventually.
Keeping on this positive new road and will keep trying my best.
Good luck to all

Good on yer Billie
Stay positive
Regards
Garry