I've read a bit from diabetics foremost from the US. They tend to count carbs and try to pinpoint their own carb/insulin ratio. As you must take into account the last 2 days intake of carbs and workout and then try to guess your medical status it seems like a shot in the dark to get it right. If you live a "normal" life, eat and drink as you did before getting T1, how could you ever get a right number? I know that the Germans LOVE to get things into charts, but are it manageable without going crazy? Many people in this forum and others also tip newly diagnosed diabetics to read Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution, in it your read: "counting carbs is an inexact science, even when food has a nutrition label. For restaurant meals and other unlabeled foods, he says, dosing insulin to match carbohydrates is a matter of even greater guesswork."
I got T1 in dec-10, since then I've gone through my honeymoon period and into "real" state. My first and only advice from my doctor was “live as you used to”. So when I think back of these last months and what I’ve done, what I've ate and what exercise I've accomplished, I doze accordingly to common sense and I’m still hitting decent figures. My first A1c taken in the beginning of April was spot on. What I'm sure of is, if I had tried to doze with a carb/insulin chart I would most certainly overdose my insulin while drinking a “real “Coke. I mean, every time you're about to get a cold, the body reacts long before the symptoms shows, making your blood sugar go up even though your following your charts and well calculated numbers.
So I ask you people that do count, doesn't it get tiring, always trying to count carbs, rethink your past days exercise and worrying if you’re getting sick? To worry is also going to mess up your counting as your BG will rise.
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