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Hello, Hello And Hello Again To All of You From Me.........

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I will say again a whopping big hello to all of you. I signed up on here yesterday and kinda hit the ground running by offering some fairly ropey contributions to some already running fairy excellent threads. My name is Geoff and I was diagnosed type 1 some 32 years ago.
Through some absolutely blinding luck and some most excellent healthcare professionals I have thus far managed to avoid most of the nasty complications that all of the diabetics I know seem to dread, with good reason. I do however have some slight traces of retinopathy but after such a long period with the condition I can deal with this (I hope!!!!). I am still on the dinosaur method of treatment using twice daily injections of Humulin S and Humulin I which I mix myself in the barrel of the syringe. I then top up with soluble as and when the need arises. I did try Basal Bolus for a while but it gave me an insane appetite for food and to be honest I absolutely hated the management system and went as soon as possible back to old faithful. For a full time living I semi run an engineering factory. For a part time living I teach salmon and trout fishing with fly rods. For kicks I am learning to play piano. I will gladly take on any of you for discussions on any subject on the proviso that you don't take me too seriously. After all life is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY too short to be serious or sombre. So there you are in a nutshell,that is me. Now what about all of you? 🙂


Best to all,
Geoff
 
Hello, Geoff, and welcome to the forum. I think you left something major out of your equation for avoiding complications:- the amount of time and hard work that you yourself must have put in over the years!
 
Hi Geoff, my other half is an engineer and trains apprentices for a living! Welcome to the forum.
 
Hi and welcome to the forum. Al
 
Hi Geoff, welcome to the forum 🙂 I'm an ex-programmer from the days when computers were big and some of them didn't even have screens 😱 Diagnosed later in life, aged 49, so only 8 years in. I'm weird because I cut my basal insulin out completely after 4 years, so obviously not quite as pancreatically-challenged as most T1s 🙂
 
Hello and welcome Geoff 🙂

I was diagnosed 38 years ago and through some blinding (literally) bad luck and a time off the rails have quite a selection of some pretty nasty complications which have made my life a challenge! I think I still have a sense of humour ...most of the time! My only knowledge of fishing was a brief period in charge of my pet goldfish 'Long John Silver' in the 1970's who sadly did not live long and prosper :(
 
Hi and welcome to the forum Geoff.
 
Flower said:
Hello and welcome Geoff 🙂

I was diagnosed 38 years ago and through some blinding (literally) bad luck and a time off the rails have quite a selection of some pretty nasty complications which have made my life a challenge! I think I still have a sense of humour ...most of the time! My only knowledge of fishing was a brief period in charge of my pet goldfish 'Long John Silver' in the 1970's who sadly did not live long and prosper :(
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I am sorry that things have not gone as well as they might for you. I hope that my rather glib comments about what is a rather unpleasant condition did not offend you or anybody else. This was not and would never be intended for me to smugly shout ' Look at me, ain't I clever'. I really do believe that a good long term outcome is largely down to good luck.
Flower said:
Hello and welcome Geoff 🙂

I was diagnosed 38 years ago and through some blinding (literally) bad luck and a time off the rails have quite a selection of some pretty nasty complications which have made my life a challenge! I think I still have a sense of humour ...most of the time! My only knowledge of fishing was a brief period in charge of my pet goldfish 'Long John Silver' in the 1970's who sadly did not live long and prosper :(
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Welcome to the forum, Geoff. Thanks for explaining your back story. An unusual insulin regime, but if it works for you, then it's right for you. A interesting range of interests, too. Not into fishing or music myself, but it's always interesting to hear about others' hobbies.
 
Welcome to the forum Geoff. 🙂
 
Welcome Geoff, I'm a late bloomer, only 2 years in to the joy that is type 1, I clearly didn't know what I was missing, to think I went 39 years not knowing you were all having such enormous fun with blood sugar 😉
 
Diabeticliberty said:
I am sorry that things have not gone as well as they might for you. I hope that my rather glib comments about what is a rather unpleasant condition did not offend you or anybody else. This was not and would never be intended for me to smugly shout ' Look at me, ain't I clever'. I really do believe that a good long term outcome is largely down to good luck.
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I'm in no way offended 🙂 It's great to read about other situations and coping strategies and I agree that in addition to good control there is an element of luck and genes in the complications roulette wheel.

It is interesting to read you find Humalin better for you than MDI, I can remember in the 1980's MDI being promoted as the saviour to allow us to eat normally and just inject for it. That was when my life went topsy turvy and I started to struggle with injecting and control.
 
Hi Geoff, I think you and your sense of humour fit right in on this forum. (After all, this is such a dreadful condition, one has to keep a sense of proportion to prevent screaming.) The fact that this is only your second day here, and you have received 15 likes already, says a lot about your style! 🙂
 
Flower said:
I'm in no way offended 🙂 It's great to read about other situations and coping strategies and I agree that in addition to good control there is an element of luck and genes in the complications roulette wheel.

It is interesting to read you find Humalin better for you than MDI, I can remember in the 1980's MDI being promoted as the saviour to allow us to eat normally and just inject for it. That was when my life went topsy turvy and I started to struggle with injecting and control.
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Oh my word now you've gone and done it. It was kind of my undoing too. I was, prior to trying Basal Bolus very heavily into cycling and martial arts. I lost lots and lots of weight and felt really good about myself. The problem I encountered was that I felt like I was in a state of permanent hypoglycaemia. I went and saw my GP who referred me to a newly qualified diabetologist based at my local hospital. I explained my plight and the young lady said that my current regime was straight from The Old Testament and that I really needed Basal Bolus. I was keen to lose more timber and compete at martial arts. With this in mind I bought wholesale into the dreaded Basal Bolus. It never ceases to amaze me just what an absolutely cruel cow irony can be. Basal Bolus gave me approximately 12 months of absolutely dreadful, awful diabetic control and stimulated my appetite so much that I could have eaten my own entrails. I promptly gained nearly 2 stones and could still not satisfy the craving for food that the system appeared to strongly stimulate. I spoke to my GP who referred me again to my local hospital and was met with the mantra ' Basal Bolus doesn't work for everybody, you know?". Too bloody right I know. They were extremely reluctant to allow me to resume my old regime and it was only because I made such a complete nuisance of myself that they finally conceded. Mixing slow and fast acting insulin in syringes may appear a little bit cave man to the newly enlightened. The fact is however I really like the flexibility it offers me and after the lousy experience I had trying something different I would be scared shutless of trying something else. Gotta run now cos I think dinner is ready yum, yum.
 
I'm amazed - my life went Tits Up on Humulin S & I after being on porcine Ultralente for 15 years, till it stopped working. Terrible car accidents on the motorway, terrible sudden hypos almost causing my husband to drop the motorbike he was conveying me on the pillion of etc etc. (well they do tend to be quite heavy to begin with and with 9 stone dead weight unable to support itself hanging over one side, on reflection I think he did rather well to save both our lives really!)

Thank God for basal bolus, and thank Him again for pumps ! LOL

We certainly are all different ....

Haven't had any trout for ages - Pete's very good at catching them and making a collection in the freezer drawer, then thawing and barbecuing them with onions and white wine, then skinning them - whilst I'm very good at slicing transparent slices of cucumber to replace the scales on buffets for loads of people (eg our 2-day wedding reception LOL)

He's more into nabbing ruddy great carp though, and although the monks liked and the Polish still like eating em, neither of us ever has since they tend to be 'catch & release' these days LOL - and I bet the dustbin lid ones would taste vile anyway!

Retired, Liability specialist Corporate International Insurance Broker (ie clerk, with the ability to say 'Good morning - may I speak to someone who speaks English, please?' in a number of European languages) married to a bloke who OK started off in the toolroom at Daimler so yes he's an engineer initially, but his skills and jobs have included welding, pattern and mould-making, building, decorating and plastering, plumbing, gas fitting, lithographic printing, managing an electrical retailers, owning a grocery shop, working for the Co-Op insurance, reading meters and Press operating. He's one of those blokes who can turn his hand to most things and make a damn good job of it. One could hate a person like that soooooo easily ROFLMAO - Just do NOT ask him to solve any electrical problem you may have beyond the basics though! He totally FAILS that challenge!
 
Hi and welcome to forum
 
trophywench said:
I'm amazed - my life went Tits Up on Humulin S & I after being on porcine Ultralente for 15 years, till it stopped working. Terrible car accidents on the motorway, terrible sudden hypos almost causing my husband to drop the motorbike he was conveying me on the pillion of etc etc. (well they do tend to be quite heavy to begin with and with 9 stone dead weight unable to support itself hanging over one side, on reflection I think he did rather well to save both our lives really!)

Thank God for basal bolus, and thank Him again for pumps ! LOL

We certainly are all different ....

Haven't had any trout for ages - Pete's very good at catching them and making a collection in the freezer drawer, then thawing and barbecuing them with onions and white wine, then skinning them - whilst I'm very good at slicing transparent slices of cucumber to replace the scales on buffets for loads of people (eg our 2-day wedding reception LOL)

He's more into nabbing ruddy great carp though, and although the monks liked and the Polish still like eating em, neither of us ever has since they tend to be 'catch & release' these days LOL - and I bet the dustbin lid ones would taste vile anyway!

Retired, Liability specialist Corporate International Insurance Broker (ie clerk, with the ability to say 'Good morning - may I speak to someone who speaks English, please?' in a number of European languages) married to a bloke who OK started off in the toolroom at Daimler so yes he's an engineer initially, but his skills and jobs have included welding, pattern and mould-making, building, decorating and plastering, plumbing, gas fitting, lithographic printing, managing an electrical retailers, owning a grocery shop, working for the Co-Op insurance, reading meters and Press operating. He's one of those blokes who can turn his hand to most things and make a damn good job of it. One could hate a person like that soooooo easily ROFLMAO - Just do NOT ask him to solve any electrical problem you may have beyond the basics though! He totally FAILS that challenge!
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When I first got diagnosed I read about a lot of diabetics who were having significant difficulties changing from pork insulin to synthetic. Humulin seemed to be a particularly difficult one. I think that because I started out on Humulin I just got used to it. In the early days the hypo's were lightening quick to come on. I suppose they still are but I feel better equipped to deal with them. I tend not to panic so much when they hit and this grants me at least a little bit of a stay of execution. When I was younger I did have an accident on a motorway as a result of a hypo. At that time I didn't carry Lucozade in the car. My God, I can't believe that I used to get away with that. It was really, really stupid of me. I am however really comfortable with Humulin and short if having it imposed in me, could not see myself using anything else. Basal Bolus was a bloody disaster when I trialled it.

Regarding trout, if you want some sending over then please let me know and next time out I will chap a few for you, clean them and ship them over. You might get a few funny looks from Royal Mail though.
 
LOL at the trout - I'll take a raincheck on that I think and just despatch Pete up the road to Maxstoke (Packington) if I fancy some!
 
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