Hello - I'm Barbie

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Hi there everyone.
I was thrilled to see this messageboard, and have finally got my act together to join in.

I was diagnosed Type 1 in 1967 in Birmingham and am still well alive after 45 years - aiming for my medal (do they still do those for 50 years on insulin? Probably not - must be getting quite expensive with all the improvements in treatment!)

I had a stormy chidhood and young adulthood but finally settled down to a slighly imperfect HBA1c. I have background retinal bleeding which is monitored annually, but no other apparent complications. Which considering how truly awful my control was for many years, is really quite a surprise.

I take Actrapid and Lantus Glargine and test blood at least twice each day.

I am now trying to re-learn all I originally was taught about CHO counting - amazing how some things never leave you!

Looking forward to joining in the discussions!

And yes I have already completed Rebecca's survey!
 
Barbie hi and a warm welcome to the forum
 
Hi Barbie, welcome to the forum 🙂 You've been diagnosed about ten times as long as me! Good to hear you've made it through the decades without falling victim to complications - very encouraging for those more recently diagnosed 🙂

There is still a medal for 50 years, called the Nabarro medal and given out by Diabetes UK. There's an American one too, called the Joslin Medal. I'll be collecting mine when I am 99! 😱
 
Hello Barbie and welcome to the forum. Like you I was diagnosed in the 1960's 🙂 No complications either.
 
Hiya, diagnosed 1972 in Kidderminster but under the care of prof John Malins who was 'big' in diabetes at the QE in Brum the rest of the week except Mondays LOL

Like you, just background retinopathy despite unbrilliant control for donkeys years. Never disastrous though so far. Had already survived the teens when I was diagnosed.

I have this pet theory that the reason there are so many of us who've had it this long with npparticside effects despite having to boil up pee and syringes and needles, is all summat to do with the old animal insulins which included C-peptide (although they still make animal insulin, there's no C-pep in it now. And I'm convinced at some stage they'll discover it's the missing link LOL)
 
Welcome to the site from me........

Have you always been on the insulin regime your on now?

After all those years, have you had any diabetes related complications....?
 
novorapidboi26 said:
Welcome to the site from me........

Have you always been on the insulin regime your on now?

After all those years, have you had any diabetes related complications....?
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Wake up in the the back row 😛 Lantus hasn't been around that long and Barbie say's no complications 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum Barbie 🙂
 
Hi Barbie, like you i have been T1 for a long time. Well done for getting on site cos its good place to join in 😎
 
In less than 3yrs i should get my blue peter badge aswell. I am looking forward to getting it (must be mad !)
 
Hi guys thanks for your responses.

Novorapidboi26 - I started life on one shot of long acting each morning (Lente?). I had to carbocount like a madman and always had to have regular meals - not easy when you are a teenager and student.

Urine testing was the norm, although I never did mine, not even when they eventually invented strips instead of test tubes.

(And yes trophywench - how well I remember the boiling up of the syringes and needles every weekend! (I still only change my needles when I change the cartridge. Pah namby pamby new neeedle freaks!) I went to Selly Oak hospital, but have no idea what the consultant was called - I think every time I went along I saw somebody different.)

After quite a few years I then moved to two shots a day, but I have absolutely no memory of what they were. It was only when I moved to Hampshire in the 1990s and found a marvellous and very patient GP, that I eventually agreed to go onto the blood testing and multiple injection routine - and I now wonder why on earth I waited so long.

I guess I got it wrong saying I'm now on Actrapid - I probably meant Novorapid, but I really have no idea. I just tick what looks like the right box on my repeat prescription form! Sorry! I am amazed everybody seems to know all these things so thoroughly! I always have to look things up!
 
Welcome to the forum 🙂
 
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