Weight loss ?

Hello to you all, just a question to tap in to your knowledge and experience since doing DAFNE.
Has anybody suffered from mass weight loss? My wife states that I look like a toast rack. Although I continue to eat fairly well, and use the DAFNE routine, my physical frame seems to be fading fast!
Any ideas?

Hmmm I am not sure but if you're not eating any less and not exercising more.... are you taking less insulin? If you were taking more before DAFNE whih wasn't needed, it would make you put on weight, so if you are taking less, then you will lose weight?

I think the main thread has been misunderstood here in a big way. If we assume DAFNE stands for dose adjustment for normal eating, we use the guidelines as provided within the handbook and practices learned on the course, can we assume that the routine is followed reasonably well because I made no reference to excessive eating prior to dafne, or any insulin doses before or since.
My question is one of enquiry as to weather anybody else has noticed considerable loss of weight since doing dafne.

Sorry for the misunderstanding

John,

Just me two pence.

If food and exercise hasn't altered and control is good (bad control = Atkins diet) and you're still loosing weight I would go to the doctors, might be nothing to do with diabetes?

Phil

I agree with Phil...

Hi,

Yes I also suffered from quite rapid considerable weight loss when I was first moved over to NovoRapid/Levermir Insulin and for a while after taking the DAFNE course - I wasn't overwight before although my control had started to go out of whack a bit and I had started putting on a little bit of weight. I hadn't changed my diet in any considerable way.

Weight loss can be a sign of high blood sugars I think - and this was certainly the case for me - I had been on Mixtard insulin for a long time and it has taken me quite a while to find the right doses and ratios under the DAFNE system. During this period my HbA1C went up quite a bit from how it had been. Now that I am finding the right doses and the control is getting better again things seem to have settled and I'm not losing any more weight (it's just cost me a bit in new trousers!!!).

I'd definitely mention it to your doctor/diabetes nusre though especially as they'll probably be able to recommend the best way to put weight back on sensibly and just in case it's anything else.

Hi! Before the DAFNE course, if I had a hypo I would massively overdose on chocolate, biscuits, etc. which was obviously the completely wrong hypo treatment. At my DAFNE course, I was told that because I now treat a hypo with just a fast acting carbohydrate, that my weight would become lower due to not overeating every time I had a hypo.

I have noticed a small weight loss since the DAFNE course - probably because of the new, more effective way of treating hypos.

Could this possibly be the same as with you?

Hi! I used to be the same when I had hypos - resolved by excessive, chocolate, cake, biscuits etc (which I knew had a very high fat content). Since being on the DAFNE regime I now take less insulin but if I have a hypo I now take some Lzade followed by 1 or sometimes 2 CPs of a more healty variety. I have lost 18lbs in weight since March. For me it was a mixture of both the reduction in insulin and the way I now treat hypos

Apple and LadyNovo, that is really interesting because I was the same, I used to feel so weak and confused when I got a hypo that I would just shovel chocolate biscuits into me for about 5 mins until I felt some semblance of normality again. I never thought that doing that maybe once a week would make me put on weight.

I did DAFNE in January, but I have not noticed much reduction in weight. My ratios have increased since DAFNE, so I am taking MORE insulin - less Lantus but more Novorapid.