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Thanks, and a Happy New Year to you all as well!

Jan 2, 2012

Simon 578 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / ipod touch app

Hi Christine,

Thanks for letting us know, glad you are enjoying the app and that Santa was good to you Very Happy

Simon

Jan 2, 2012

tcmonkey80 41 posts

Happy new year Smile

love light and laughter Teresa

Jan 2, 2012

tcmonkey80 41 posts

Topic: General Discussion / new year

Sorry, I forgot I was in carb counting and not general...

Jan 2, 2012

tcmonkey80 41 posts

Topic: General Discussion / new year

Hi everyone, first of all happy new year to you all.
I can't believe I am going to say this but I am so glad to get back into the diabetic routine... I have had a good festive period but not so good sugar levels, and have felt like rubbish because of them. Back in the old routine of getting up in the middle of the night for the toilet, then shouting over nothing.....its a good job my partner understands.
So back to work and back to testing he he

Jan 2, 2012

marke 681 posts

Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE Follow-on Training

Hi Simon, I'm a bit confused by your response. Your GP does DAFNE ? Generally DAFNE is run at DAFNE Centres which are hospitals like the one you did your course at. Hence my confusion by your reference to your GP doing it. Do you mean they do something similiar to DAFNE or that they actually run courses under the umbrella of one of the DAFNE Centres ? Where is the GP in the UK ? Just curious Smile

Jan 2, 2012

SimonC 78 posts

Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE Follow-on Training

Done the survey - after a year of doing DAFNE - and enjoying it, I would love a follow up - my training centre has offered it, however, I have moved a long way away from it and it is too far to travel now. My new GP does do DAFNE, but the training centre was a large teaching hosp with the resources and staff to offer a very good service - the GP's surgery is obviously smaller with less resources, staff and time.

Jan 2, 2012

Ahmentep 99 posts

And the same to you Gill, and to everyone else.

Roger

Jan 1, 2012

ChristineBat... 23 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / ipod touch app

Father Christmas brought me an ipod touch and I LOVE the Dafne APP....I's great not having to carry my diary around and the CP 'counter' is really useful when out and about!Well done and thank you to Simon Fisher and Anil Lakhman!

Christine Razz

Jan 1, 2012

ChristineBat... 23 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Toblerone

Happy new year Gill! Hope you enjoyed the triangle of Toblerone!! This is a link...

http://www.toblerone.co.uk/toblerone1/page?siteid=toblerone1-prd&locale=uken1&PagecRef=575

Found it useful actually! Enjoy

Jan 1, 2012

Kelp 4 posts

I love this my levels have been bad over Christmas nice to know I'm not the only one am forward to getting back to normality Smile

Jan 1, 2012

Kelp 4 posts

I love this my levels have been bad over Christmas nice to know I'm not the only one am forward to getting back to normality Smile

Jan 1, 2012

Kelp 4 posts

I love this my levels have been bad over Christmas nice to know I'm not the only one am forward to getting back to normality Smile

Jan 1, 2012

Kelp 4 posts

I love this my levels have been bad over Christmas nice to know I'm not the only one am forward to getting back to normality Smile

Jan 1, 2012

mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Wishing everyone on the forum

A very happy, healthy, new year

Gill

Dec 31, 2011

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

if your BG is OK at 3am, then your most likely suffering from Dawn Phenomenon, which happens in everyone, but only causes problems in diabetics, and some struggle more than others with it.........

Are you getting three consecutive on target 3 am tests, if you don't know, it would be wise to do that basal test.........

Dec 31, 2011

ChristineBat... 23 posts

That is the same kind of problem I have, things work for a short while, then I have to revert to my previous dosage....then that stops working and I have to go back to something else that had previously stopped working. I tweak by the week! Nothing last for ever.

Dec 31, 2011

alp147 4 posts

I used to test at 3am for about 6 months and my sugars where stable around 7 - 9 but then i tested at 4 or 5 am and they where low, so i dropped my lantus from 35 and slowly brought it down to 17!!!! and this worked perfectly for about 2 weeks then all went wrong again :/ started with highs and no hypo so started to bring the lantus back up again

Dec 31, 2011

ChristineBat... 23 posts

Hi ALP, you sound similar to me, after giving birth things went mad. I also have the same HbA1c as you, 8.3%. Preganancy control was easy compared to now! It may be that you are suffering from the dawn phenonemom and a change of BI insulin may help? Testing at 3am is better than 1.30, if you are within target then and wake up high, it probably means you're liver is dumping sugar in preperation for waking up (the dawn phenonemom. I changed from Humulin I to Levemir and it had combated this problem. Due a Hba1c soon and hope it's a bit lower. You may want to read a recent message I sent regarding my control. x

Hi Emma, for many years I felt in control of my diabetes and everything I did worked and made sense. After a beautifully controlled pregnancy things became extremely erratic and for 7 years I battled and lived every day frustrated blaming myself for terrible results. My consultant suggested I do the dafne course but I wasn't convinced it would have been beneficial as I'd been 'counting carbs and adjusting insulin' since the age of 10! However, the course has changed my life and I now don't beat myself up any more. It has taken ages to let go, but I finally feel at peace with my diabetes Emma. I haven't put results on here for a while due to the Christmas period (over eating and correcting)! However, things are calmer and my monthly is over so I'm logging them again. I hope by viewing my diary you feel you are not alone. You will begin to see good results, then after a while it stops working. I eat a pretty regular amount of cps per meal, just cos I can't be bothered to rock the boat! But when I let go I let go big time!
I rarely adjust my ratios, 3:1 at breakfast, 1.5:1 for lunch and 1:1 at dinner time. Correctors work differently at each meal, ranging from 1 unit lowering my bg from 2-6 mmol! One thing I do alter more than anything over the course of a month is my BI. Leading up to my period I can have an extra 6 units per day. I think you'll be able to see my diary from mid October. Happy new year Emma. x

Dec 31, 2011

ChristineBat... 23 posts

I kind of let go on Christmas day, what with the odd chocolate, sherry, and a variety of other nibbles I did what DAFNE would not aprove of and had a couple of units of QA every hour/two hours...without testing.....by chance all worked out, had a huge amount of QA during the day, didn't record anything as I was so out of routine! Hey, DAFNE peers, once a year I have to just let go and forget!

Dec 31, 2011

alp147 4 posts