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Stop the Rollercoaster: How to Take Charge of Your Blood Sugars in Diabetes

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This is a one of a kind book for anyone with type 1 diabetes.It teaches how to do carbohydrate counting, how to account for exercise, illness, and unexpected highs and lows.

I hope the authors write an updated version of this book because it is really necessary. It is surprising that there are so few books like this available to diabetics who really have to take care of their disease all by themselves. It is lonely out there and books like this really help.

This book would have been EXCELLENT several years ago, but it apparently was written before Humalog becamse available and doesn't include this very useful insulin in the control techniques. As a result, it is not very useful. A Second Edition with all the latest techniques would be very worthwhile.

There is a lot of great information here, but a lot of it is sadly out of date. In particular, there's almost nothing related to using Humalog insulin, and I don't know anyone who uses Regular anymore. (In fact, I never did, I used Semi-Lente when they still manufactured it ages ago) At the very least, I was expecting that there would be more detailed discussions of other insulins, but the assumption is that you'll be using regular. Since the information on insulin duration, etc. permeate the information on exercise and most other chapters, I was disappointed that so much of the information is a bit dated. I'd recommend waiting for an update.

This book provides a very complete coverage of diabetes. It really is the only book a diabetic will ever need. The thrust of the volume is the tight control of blood glucose which means multiple insulin injection per day in addition to BG readings. This is the flexible insulin therapy which is thoroughly described. The Table of Contents is as follows:

Learning about your diabetes, Taking Control, What you need to know about insulin, Setting your insulin doses, Daily challenges and how to meet them, Blood sugar patterns and solutions, Research insights.

In addition, the book is profusely illustrated with tables and graphs on any conceivable subject. A random sample of these is the Blood Sugar Action Guides, graphing your BG levels, Carb counting, determining the starting dose for insulin, grams of carbohydrate used per hour in common activities, carbohydrate and fat use in continuous exercise, and many more.

A must have for people with Diabetes or related in some way with Diabetes patients. Gaining control in Diabetes is very difficult, specially for those who have a busy life, work, sports etc. Reading this book will help a lot.

Excellent reference for those on or considering Flexible Insulin Therapy (Intensive). Primarily concerned with adjusting Insulin dosage to produce normal blood glucose levels. Sections on diet, exercise, Insulin, and more. For both Type I and Type II Diabetes.