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- Thread starter SarahO
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Welcome to the forum @SarahO
Glad you’ve joined us. 🙂
Sorry to hear you’ve had a bit of a rough ride with diabetes over the years, but great to hear that you are working at bringing it into line now.
Hope that any improvements you are seeing in your levels are helping with the management of your complications, and slowing any progress to a crawl.
Fire away with any questions, or just use this as a friendly and understanding place to vent and let off steam with any frustrations.
Glad you’ve joined us. 🙂
Sorry to hear you’ve had a bit of a rough ride with diabetes over the years, but great to hear that you are working at bringing it into line now.
Hope that any improvements you are seeing in your levels are helping with the management of your complications, and slowing any progress to a crawl.
Fire away with any questions, or just use this as a friendly and understanding place to vent and let off steam with any frustrations.
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Hi and welcome @SarahO 🙂
I'm sorry you have had a torrid time with diabetes over the years and hope you're doing ok becoming slightly obsessive with your T1 management and living with complications.
I'm coming up to 44 years and also have a lot of life changing complications. It was so different before home blood testing, HbA1c, MDI and correction insulin, retinopathy screening etc although I realise a lot of people managed amazingly through those years and longer.
I just didn't know much about diabetes or what I could do to help myself, a few lines in my biology text book and a BDA newspaper every other month was about it. I tried to follow the rules eating when I had to and sticking to the set amount of carbs, I still mentally subdivide food in to 10g CHO exchanges. I went off the rails as soon as I left home for university and did myself massive damage. As tech has developed I've also become quite obsessive with my diabetes management and Time in Range etc. I only wish my efforts now could undo or stop the complications I have from causing ongoing grief. I can't believe I didn't care but without any instant data and knowledge in front of me I didn't see what I was doing to myself.
Good to have you here🙂
I'm sorry you have had a torrid time with diabetes over the years and hope you're doing ok becoming slightly obsessive with your T1 management and living with complications.
I'm coming up to 44 years and also have a lot of life changing complications. It was so different before home blood testing, HbA1c, MDI and correction insulin, retinopathy screening etc although I realise a lot of people managed amazingly through those years and longer.
I just didn't know much about diabetes or what I could do to help myself, a few lines in my biology text book and a BDA newspaper every other month was about it. I tried to follow the rules eating when I had to and sticking to the set amount of carbs, I still mentally subdivide food in to 10g CHO exchanges. I went off the rails as soon as I left home for university and did myself massive damage. As tech has developed I've also become quite obsessive with my diabetes management and Time in Range etc. I only wish my efforts now could undo or stop the complications I have from causing ongoing grief. I can't believe I didn't care but without any instant data and knowledge in front of me I didn't see what I was doing to myself.
Good to have you here🙂
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