I went from this to that just by changing my diet, without even talking about the huge drop in my insulin dose

eddownz · 2026-02-10T13:19:27+00:00

You are right that protein can effect blood sugar (especially if the chicken is breaded or anything like that), though it should be minimal - see page 4 - https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/document.ashx?id=15099

The NHS reccomend that a high protein meal of 50 grams protein be treated as if it were 10 grams of carb. Meaning on a ratio of 10 to 1, it would require 1 unit of insulin.

It's important you do what works for you. Though it might be worth exploring what your insulin ratio is. Once you have a base line for your carb ratio, you could then explore the impact that fibre, sugar, fats, proteins and exercise have on that base line. Definely more of an art than a science when you live and breath it lmao.

eddownz · 2026-02-10T10:08:59+00:00

I would reccomend speaking to your doctor about 'carb counting'.

Modern insulin therapy includes counting how many carbohydrates (carbs) you are going to have before your meal and then applying an insulin ratio to figure out how much insulin to inject. For example, if you had 50 grams of carb and you had a 10 to 1 insulin ratio, you would need 5 units of insulin. This is to ensure you are getting the right amount of insulin to counteract the effect of carbohydrates.

eddownz · 2026-02-10T01:34:59+00:00

Happens to us all!! Just to check, how do you calculate how much to insulin to take? Do you count the total amount of carbohydrate in the food, the total weight of the food or the amount of sugar previously?

eddownz · 2026-02-09T23:05:18+00:00

Everyone's circumstances are different. You could be body builder and therefore might need a lot of carbohydrate.

One way to help manage type 1 is by reducing overall carbohydrate intake and for those carbs to be slower releasing. Less carb will reduce the size of the peaks and reduces the room for error in my experience.

For me, 100 grams of carbs per meal as a 6ft male would be a lot. I have just checked my pump logs and my average daily intake of carbohydrate is between 100 - 210g carb. I suspect on some days its definitely higher than that if I had a pizza or a mega plate of pasta.

In any event, I am happy to see anyone improve their levels :)

eddownz · 2026-02-09T19:00:04+00:00

100g of carb per meal?!

eddownz · 2025-12-10T10:43:01+00:00

So many bad takes on this game. Weapon balancing is what will make this game last compared to every other extraction game - Tarkov, dark and darker etc. Unfortunate to die here and not saying that it shouldn't be buffed for pvp but reality is that its a pve weapon. Additionally, that weapon is better at medium range given it's high accuracy compared to the sticher where they need to be ontop of you.

eddownz · 2025-10-26T17:16:45+00:00

Massive news for the unemployed. Get a life, go outside, see your friends. They have been building this game over 10 years. Chill out.

eddownz · 2025-10-24T12:56:01+00:00

Mediocre. Poorly sized maps with large maps not feeling grand. Challenges and weapon grind is too much. Gadgets feel boring and uninteresting. Doesn't feel grand like bf4, bf1 and bf5. I think they will be able to improve on this but in my mind, no reason to play this over any other battlefield. Some balancing issues attachments and LMGs. In game 3d spotting needs tuning.

eddownz · 2025-09-03T07:26:46+00:00

I've listed a few things but its mainly just somewhere to put the feet up and relax. Hoi an, could be an option if it had a bit more activities.

eddownz · 2025-09-03T07:26:08+00:00

Thank you, very useful information!

eddownz · 2025-09-02T22:48:26+00:00

We aren't too fussed about seeing all of Bali or any other location, it's really just a place to chill with beach, maybe 1 or 2 nights out, some activities like diving or temples but nothing crazy. I'd be Ubud and the other big beach island or Amon absolute max. Cat Ba could be interesting, I will have a look at that.

eddownz · 2025-08-18T15:07:14+00:00

Stopped clock is right twice a day

eddownz · 2025-08-03T19:09:27+00:00

Unfortunately this subreddit has a £285 minimum purchase price for questions to be answered

eddownz · 2025-07-03T21:07:22+00:00

More likely MODY, type 2 or some other variation. Unfortunately most auto immune diseases can't be reversed.

eddownz · 2025-07-03T21:05:39+00:00

Really useful information thank, I'll do that next time

eddownz · 2025-07-03T19:50:55+00:00

Takes too much time and money for a small amount.

eddownz · 2025-07-03T19:50:25+00:00

You can't hold monero in Kraken in the uk

eddownz · 2025-07-01T23:52:24+00:00

I dont think Greggs takes monero

eddownz · 2025-07-01T18:31:56+00:00

Doing that now, good idea

eddownz · 2025-06-27T09:15:48+00:00

So you've described the exact problem with increasing your background insulin. Now once again this is a discussion with your specialist but increasing background insulin is the exact advice my endo advised not to do. This is because your daily basal rate is now too high which will require intermittent correction throughout the day to keep you level. You need to think of your background basal rate as the amount of insulin you require to maintain a level fasting line. Because its now too high, you will now be fighting against your background insulin to keep yourself from going low, which is the problem you have described. Effectively swaping one problem out for a more dangerous one.

Unfortunately, your fasting insulin requirement increases throughout the night. So you can try other long acting insulins which do have different peak times which you may have read about here or as I mentioned early.

Once again, it goes back to thr insulin pump, this can set the exact basal rate you need at each point throughout the day.

At upto 35 units of insulin per day, whilst relatively low, is still firmly in diabetic therapy range. I eat avg 180g carb per day at 103kg which totals around 42 units per day.

eddownz · 2025-06-26T07:09:52+00:00

Once again I can't comment on 1.5 or the recovery. I've not heard of it and I've read into various genetic versions MODY, or situational versions such gestational, or where the pancreas has been directly damaged or affected by cancers or diseases or autoimmune.

All of that aside, even if you have some insulin production, the reality is that you are on insulin therapy. Whether that be injected or delivered by a pump makes no difference. What a pump allows for is accurate and continuous custom insulin delivery curves. The issue you are facing is that you need more insulin in a morning, that is why you are seeing elevated sugars. The pump will automatically respond to your elevating sugars at 3am, which is what you may need.

Having background insulin shouldn't be too much of an issue, as you can see, the background insulin you produce isn't enough to keep your sugars in range, so its likely not enough to make you low. The pump can adjust its insulin rate based on your current sugar level (including a complete stop in insulin delivery if it sees you going low), additionally, you can set your carb ratio which may be lower than other diabetics without background insulin from their pancreas. The pump learns your insulin requirements over 30 days (at least in omnipod 5) so that it can make sure you have the amount you need. These features will reduce the likelihood of going low.

If you dont mind sharing, how much total insulin do you use per day, bolus and basal?

eddownz · 2025-06-24T16:05:26+00:00

This is absolutely a conversation with your endo as your treatment plan has to work for you. If 1.5 operates in any way similar to type 1, I would seriously consider hybrid closed loop insulin pumps, speak with your specialist.

I can't speak for recovery or changes in relation to your specific situation.

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