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Sep 11, 2014

Nat-Sav 15 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Good carb counting resource?

I got in touch with Carbs & Cals to ask 2 questions about their app: are they going to provide a facility to back-up information? (Currently there is no safeguard against losing all the records you have painstakingly entered.) And to ask about a way of exporting reports to share with your doctor. They said:

"Thanks for your email.

Iâ€™m pleased to say we are currently rebuilding the app to make vast improvements to the way it works. The new app will include a back up feature and you will be able to download PDF reports. The work is going to take a number of months as we are making changes to the iPhone app first and then will replicate this onto Android. It is likely the Android update will not be ready until spring 2015.

Thanks for your patience while we make the changes."

Sep 11, 2014

marke 681 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Online version of DAFNE?

First of all no there is currently not an online version of the course, why not ? because it involves changes to your insulin regime ( some quite radical changes for some) that are not necessarily safe to try at home. Yes some people could manage it at home, but many could not and how do you decide which are which ? My guess is this is why they don't do an online version. It is also about more than just carb counting Smile

There have been a number of trials of a 5 x 1 version of the course recently and your 'local' centre might be running one of these. This would mean doing the course over 5 weeks that may be slightly easier for you to undertake. You can always contact my via the 'message' system on the site and I can find out if there is such a course in your area.
I too was dose adjusting before the course but there is more to it than that as I said.

Sep 11, 2014

andrewarts 1 post

Topic: General Discussion / Online version of DAFNE?

Hello,

I'm a Type 1 diabetic, currently on Levemir (basal) and Novorapid (bolus). I'm aged 42, and have been a diabetic for 38 years.

Due to a period of having my diabetes monitored by my (expert) GP (2001-2009), and then living outside of the UK (2010-2013), I've never actually undertaken DAFNE. However, I've been dose adjusting for years. Having returned to live in the UK last year, my diabetes is now expertly monitored at my local hospital, and my treatment regime has been updated slightly.

I am now being encouraged to undertake the DAFNE course. However, since I am currently in a temporary work, I am pushing back against the requests. My concern is that I cannot justify losing three or four days pay, and I do not believe that the benefit I will gain from the additional knowledge provided by the DAFNE course is sufficient to put my employment at risk.

I am doing a reasonable job of managing the dose adjustments. Although my most recent A1c result is higher than my specialist would like it to be, this is mainly because I am adjusting to an updated treatment regime following advice from the Diabetic nurse adviser.

My question (after the long introduction!) is: Is there an online version of DAFNE I can take? If not, why not?

Thanks for your input. Very Happy

Sep 11, 2014

Gareth H 12 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos

Dominos came back to me today with:

Nachos 20.2g per serving
Nachos (without Jalapenos) 20.1 per serving

Each box is to server 2 people apparently, so the above figures are for roughly half a box.

Sep 11, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Travel

Muna A H said:
Hi Rafa,

I visited the diabetic clinic just four days ago and I asked about the BI during my twenty two hours flight. I have been advised to keep my watch according to Sydney time and take my usual morning and evening BI during the flight and once I got there adjust the am and pm BI dosages according to their time. For example, I will arrive at five am and usually I take my morning BI around seven so I will wait two hours then inject the am BI. Hope that helps.

Muna

Great thank you.

Sep 11, 2014

Muna A H 34 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Travel

Hi Rafa,

I visited the diabetic clinic just four days ago and I asked about the BI during my twenty two hours flight. I have been advised to keep my watch according to Sydney time and take my usual morning and evening BI during the flight and once I got there adjust the am and pm BI dosages according to their time. For example, I will arrive at five am and usually I take my morning BI around seven so I will wait two hours then inject the am BI. Hope that helps. Smile

Muna

Sep 11, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Travel

Without wanting to sound stupid but if my flight is at 2010 local time Orlando and lands at 0925 eight hours later in Ireland would i be ok to wait until 1125 Irish time to take my monring BI as in it would then be 0625 Orlando time then. Thanks.

Sep 11, 2014

JohnMarrable 1 post

Topic: General Discussion / Raising Money for Diabetes UK

Hello All

https://www.justgiving.com/John-Marrable

Please help me raise money for Diabetes UK by selecting the link above and making a donation. The event is the Norwich half marathon (13 miles) on 23rd November. I have been Type 1 diabetic for 20 years and would love to run to a future without diabetes (which your donation will help create).

Thanks all

Sep 10, 2014

Ryder 6 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian....

Rafa said:
Ryder said:
Tried pizza last night. Took half the calculated QA insulin for the CPs I calculated and went low nearly 2 hours later so had to take 2 raid CPs and then went to bed on target and then woke up at 10.3 this morning- better than previous attempts where I&#x27;ve taken all insulin at once and needed my jag to revive me from being down in the danger zone!

Think pizza is not my friend- did Chinese a week ago and QA and CPs worked out perfect

Yes as i mentioned i am bang on with pizza but Chinese is a totally different story. As they say we are all different.

Definitely x

Sep 9, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BEER AFTER DINNER

I made a mistake last week. I was out for a six mile run and my BG was fine after. I reduced my qa by two with my meal and then had three beers. I had 2 cps of bread before bed and took the qa but also added on another two for the beers so 4qa in total. I woke up the next morning and was 12.6 so corrected +2 with my 3cps. Big mistake was 1.8 four hours later. I probably should have just taken the cps for the bread before bed and then not corrected regardless of my BG the next morning.

Sep 9, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Stacking

I sometimes have say my breakfast and two hours later want to eat more. I just match the cp with the qa regardless of my BG reading.

Sep 9, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results

hypo said:
Hi Rafa well Im sure the doctor is please with that result even though to was a little higher than last time its still a great improvement well done

Thanks.

Sep 9, 2014

hypo 18 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results

Hi Rafa well Im sure the doctor is please with that result even though to was a little higher than last time its still a great improvement well done

Sep 9, 2014

Gareth H 12 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos

I have contacted Dominos and asked them to supply it just in case but thank you all, i will take those into consideration as they are both very similar results!

Sep 9, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos

I was having old el paso nachos recently which i bought in the supermarket and 100g worked out at just over 30.0 cps.

Sep 9, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results

Had my review today and i was 59. I was 55 the last time which was my first review since DAFNE. I was a little but disappointed but the nurse and doctor were the complete opposite. The said i have to remember how far i have come in 12 months which cheered me up. Determined to try and get it down lower for the next review.

Sep 9, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian....

Ryder said:
Tried pizza last night. Took half the calculated QA insulin for the CPs I calculated and went low nearly 2 hours later so had to take 2 raid CPs and then went to bed on target and then woke up at 10.3 this morning- better than previous attempts where I've taken all insulin at once and needed my jag to revive me from being down in the danger zone!

Think pizza is not my friend- did Chinese a week ago and QA and CPs worked out perfect

Yes as i mentioned i am bang on with pizza but Chinese is a totally different story. As they say we are all different.

Sep 9, 2014

Warwick 423 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / injection sites

I know diabetics who inject into arms and swear by it. I inject into arm muscle (deltoids, bicep, tricep) when I want to get my BGs down fast and that works well for me. Whatever works for you is what you should do. Everyone is different. The main message though is to rotate injection sites. Arms are smaller than the torso, so care needs to be taken to not inject repeatedly into the same sites.

Sep 8, 2014

Trish Skidmore 18 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / injection sites

When I was first diagnosed 20 years ago, I was advised to inject in thighs, stomach, buttocks and arms, 12 years ago I went on Dafne and was advised not to use arms, I have been reading posts on here and people do inject into arms, is it advisable to use arms for injecting.

Sep 8, 2014

Ryder 6 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos

I can only find this- 29.5g carbs for nachos with cheese & jalapeÃ±os (dominos). Hers the link

http://skipthepie.org/fast-foods/fast-foods-nachos-with-cheese-and-jalapeno-peppers/compared-to/domino-s-cheese-pizza-classic-hand-tossed-crust/#carbs

Serving size is 100g?!

Hope that maybe helps

Sep 8, 2014

Ryder 6 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian....

Tried pizza last night. Took half the calculated QA insulin for the CPs I calculated and went low nearly 2 hours later so had to take 2 raid CPs and then went to bed on target and then woke up at 10.3 this morning- better than previous attempts where I've taken all insulin at once and needed my jag to revive me from being down in the danger zone!

Think pizza is not my friend- did Chinese a week ago and QA and CPs worked out perfect Very Happy

Sep 8, 2014

GWM 10 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood glucose animation using protective lancet caps

Great. Thank you Warwick!

Sep 8, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian....

Gareth H said:
I split the dose nearly in half. i calculated it as 8 (1.4 per slice * 5 slices and i added 1 for the nachos as i didn't know what they were!), so i did 5 with the food at 6pm, and then 2 hours later i did 3 more. I went low at about 8.30 (4.1) but just had some cornflakes just in case and it was 9 when i went to bed at 10:45 so it was as close to target as i was going to worry about!

Not perfect or anything but it worked a bit, i think the 3 units later on should have been 2 units, i must get on to dominos now and ask about the nachos.

Great thanks.

Sep 8, 2014

Gareth H 12 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian....

I split the dose nearly in half. i calculated it as 8 (1.4 per slice * 5 slices and i added 1 for the nachos as i didn't know what they were!), so i did 5 with the food at 6pm, and then 2 hours later i did 3 more. I went low at about 8.30 (4.1) but just had some cornflakes just in case and it was 9 when i went to bed at 10:45 so it was as close to target as i was going to worry about!

Not perfect or anything but it worked a bit, i think the 3 units later on should have been 2 units, i must get on to dominos now and ask about the nachos.

Sep 11, 2014 Nat-Sav 15 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Good carb counting resource? I got in touch with Carbs & Cals to ask 2 questions about their app: are they going to provide a facility to back-up information? (Currently there is no safeguard against losing all the records you have painstakingly entered.) And to ask about a way of exporting reports to share with your doctor. They said: "Thanks for your email. Iâ€™m pleased to say we are currently rebuilding the app to make vast improvements to the way it works. The new app will include a back up feature and you will be able to download PDF reports. The work is going to take a number of months as we are making changes to the iPhone app first and then will replicate this onto Android. It is likely the Android update will not be ready until spring 2015. Thanks for your patience while we make the changes."

Sep 11, 2014 marke 681 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Online version of DAFNE? First of all no there is currently not an online version of the course, why not ? because it involves changes to your insulin regime ( some quite radical changes for some) that are not necessarily safe to try at home. Yes some people could manage it at home, but many could not and how do you decide which are which ? My guess is this is why they don't do an online version. It is also about more than just carb counting There have been a number of trials of a 5 x 1 version of the course recently and your 'local' centre might be running one of these. This would mean doing the course over 5 weeks that may be slightly easier for you to undertake. You can always contact my via the 'message' system on the site and I can find out if there is such a course in your area. I too was dose adjusting before the course but there is more to it than that as I said.

Sep 11, 2014 andrewarts 1 post	Topic: General Discussion / Online version of DAFNE? Hello, I'm a Type 1 diabetic, currently on Levemir (basal) and Novorapid (bolus). I'm aged 42, and have been a diabetic for 38 years. Due to a period of having my diabetes monitored by my (expert) GP (2001-2009), and then living outside of the UK (2010-2013), I've never actually undertaken DAFNE. However, I've been dose adjusting for years. Having returned to live in the UK last year, my diabetes is now expertly monitored at my local hospital, and my treatment regime has been updated slightly. I am now being encouraged to undertake the DAFNE course. However, since I am currently in a temporary work, I am pushing back against the requests. My concern is that I cannot justify losing three or four days pay, and I do not believe that the benefit I will gain from the additional knowledge provided by the DAFNE course is sufficient to put my employment at risk. I am doing a reasonable job of managing the dose adjustments. Although my most recent A1c result is higher than my specialist would like it to be, this is mainly because I am adjusting to an updated treatment regime following advice from the Diabetic nurse adviser. My question (after the long introduction!) is: Is there an online version of DAFNE I can take? If not, why not? Thanks for your input.

Sep 11, 2014 Gareth H 12 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos Dominos came back to me today with: Nachos 20.2g per serving Nachos (without Jalapenos) 20.1 per serving Each box is to server 2 people apparently, so the above figures are for roughly half a box.

Sep 11, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Travel Muna A H said: Hi Rafa, I visited the diabetic clinic just four days ago and I asked about the BI during my twenty two hours flight. I have been advised to keep my watch according to Sydney time and take my usual morning and evening BI during the flight and once I got there adjust the am and pm BI dosages according to their time. For example, I will arrive at five am and usually I take my morning BI around seven so I will wait two hours then inject the am BI. Hope that helps. Muna Great thank you.

Sep 11, 2014 Muna A H 34 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Travel Hi Rafa, I visited the diabetic clinic just four days ago and I asked about the BI during my twenty two hours flight. I have been advised to keep my watch according to Sydney time and take my usual morning and evening BI during the flight and once I got there adjust the am and pm BI dosages according to their time. For example, I will arrive at five am and usually I take my morning BI around seven so I will wait two hours then inject the am BI. Hope that helps. Muna

Sep 11, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Travel Without wanting to sound stupid but if my flight is at 2010 local time Orlando and lands at 0925 eight hours later in Ireland would i be ok to wait until 1125 Irish time to take my monring BI as in it would then be 0625 Orlando time then. Thanks.

Sep 11, 2014 JohnMarrable 1 post	Topic: General Discussion / Raising Money for Diabetes UK Hello All https://www.justgiving.com/John-Marrable Please help me raise money for Diabetes UK by selecting the link above and making a donation. The event is the Norwich half marathon (13 miles) on 23rd November. I have been Type 1 diabetic for 20 years and would love to run to a future without diabetes (which your donation will help create). Thanks all

Sep 10, 2014 Ryder 6 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian.... Rafa said: Ryder said: Tried pizza last night. Took half the calculated QA insulin for the CPs I calculated and went low nearly 2 hours later so had to take 2 raid CPs and then went to bed on target and then woke up at 10.3 this morning- better than previous attempts where I&#x27;ve taken all insulin at once and needed my jag to revive me from being down in the danger zone! Think pizza is not my friend- did Chinese a week ago and QA and CPs worked out perfect Yes as i mentioned i am bang on with pizza but Chinese is a totally different story. As they say we are all different. Definitely x

Sep 9, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / BEER AFTER DINNER I made a mistake last week. I was out for a six mile run and my BG was fine after. I reduced my qa by two with my meal and then had three beers. I had 2 cps of bread before bed and took the qa but also added on another two for the beers so 4qa in total. I woke up the next morning and was 12.6 so corrected +2 with my 3cps. Big mistake was 1.8 four hours later. I probably should have just taken the cps for the bread before bed and then not corrected regardless of my BG the next morning.

Sep 9, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Stacking I sometimes have say my breakfast and two hours later want to eat more. I just match the cp with the qa regardless of my BG reading.

Sep 9, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results hypo said: Hi Rafa well Im sure the doctor is please with that result even though to was a little higher than last time its still a great improvement well done Thanks.

Sep 9, 2014 hypo 18 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results Hi Rafa well Im sure the doctor is please with that result even though to was a little higher than last time its still a great improvement well done

Sep 9, 2014 Gareth H 12 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos I have contacted Dominos and asked them to supply it just in case but thank you all, i will take those into consideration as they are both very similar results!

Sep 9, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos I was having old el paso nachos recently which i bought in the supermarket and 100g worked out at just over 30.0 cps.

Sep 9, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results Had my review today and i was 59. I was 55 the last time which was my first review since DAFNE. I was a little but disappointed but the nurse and doctor were the complete opposite. The said i have to remember how far i have come in 12 months which cheered me up. Determined to try and get it down lower for the next review.

Sep 9, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian.... Ryder said: Tried pizza last night. Took half the calculated QA insulin for the CPs I calculated and went low nearly 2 hours later so had to take 2 raid CPs and then went to bed on target and then woke up at 10.3 this morning- better than previous attempts where I've taken all insulin at once and needed my jag to revive me from being down in the danger zone! Think pizza is not my friend- did Chinese a week ago and QA and CPs worked out perfect Yes as i mentioned i am bang on with pizza but Chinese is a totally different story. As they say we are all different.

Sep 9, 2014 Warwick 423 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / injection sites I know diabetics who inject into arms and swear by it. I inject into arm muscle (deltoids, bicep, tricep) when I want to get my BGs down fast and that works well for me. Whatever works for you is what you should do. Everyone is different. The main message though is to rotate injection sites. Arms are smaller than the torso, so care needs to be taken to not inject repeatedly into the same sites.

Sep 8, 2014 Trish Skidmore 18 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / injection sites When I was first diagnosed 20 years ago, I was advised to inject in thighs, stomach, buttocks and arms, 12 years ago I went on Dafne and was advised not to use arms, I have been reading posts on here and people do inject into arms, is it advisable to use arms for injecting.

Sep 8, 2014 Ryder 6 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Domino's Nachos I can only find this- 29.5g carbs for nachos with cheese & jalapeÃ±os (dominos). Hers the link http://skipthepie.org/fast-foods/fast-foods-nachos-with-cheese-and-jalapeno-peppers/compared-to/domino-s-cheese-pizza-classic-hand-tossed-crust/#carbs Serving size is 100g?! Hope that maybe helps

Sep 8, 2014 Ryder 6 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian.... Tried pizza last night. Took half the calculated QA insulin for the CPs I calculated and went low nearly 2 hours later so had to take 2 raid CPs and then went to bed on target and then woke up at 10.3 this morning- better than previous attempts where I've taken all insulin at once and needed my jag to revive me from being down in the danger zone! Think pizza is not my friend- did Chinese a week ago and QA and CPs worked out perfect

Sep 8, 2014 GWM 10 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood glucose animation using protective lancet caps Great. Thank you Warwick!

Sep 8, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian.... Gareth H said: I split the dose nearly in half. i calculated it as 8 (1.4 per slice * 5 slices and i added 1 for the nachos as i didn't know what they were!), so i did 5 with the food at 6pm, and then 2 hours later i did 3 more. I went low at about 8.30 (4.1) but just had some cornflakes just in case and it was 9 when i went to bed at 10:45 so it was as close to target as i was going to worry about! Not perfect or anything but it worked a bit, i think the 3 units later on should have been 2 units, i must get on to dominos now and ask about the nachos. Great thanks.

Sep 8, 2014 Gareth H 12 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Pizza, chinese, indian.... I split the dose nearly in half. i calculated it as 8 (1.4 per slice * 5 slices and i added 1 for the nachos as i didn't know what they were!), so i did 5 with the food at 6pm, and then 2 hours later i did 3 more. I went low at about 8.30 (4.1) but just had some cornflakes just in case and it was 9 when i went to bed at 10:45 so it was as close to target as i was going to worry about! Not perfect or anything but it worked a bit, i think the 3 units later on should have been 2 units, i must get on to dominos now and ask about the nachos.