Hi, I'm Paula. Been type 2 for about 8 years relatively well controlled - do have a blip every now and again, its been 57 at my yearly check for the past 4 years! My dad is type 1 and has 4 injections a day and I hope I don't ever get to that stage
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Welcome @Paula1158 🙂
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Hello & welcome @Paula1158 🙂
I found this forum through a random Google search and love going through reading people's experiences - most of it brings a huge comfort to me as a newbie (both to diabetes & the forum). No matter how many things you read just remember you may be different to everyone else, so just keep doing what you are doing if it works well for you! Wishing you the best & keep up the good control!
I found this forum through a random Google search and love going through reading people's experiences - most of it brings a huge comfort to me as a newbie (both to diabetes & the forum). No matter how many things you read just remember you may be different to everyone else, so just keep doing what you are doing if it works well for you! Wishing you the best & keep up the good control!
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Welcome to the forum @Paula1158
Do you take medication to help you manage your glucose levels?
I thing it’s a bit rough on T2s who sometimes get ‘threatened’ with insulin almost as if it’s a punishment for ‘doing badly’. You don’t get any of that nonsense as a T1. Insulin is just an essential tool to help you (and keep you alive!). As a T1 I’ve been on 4 or more injections a day since my 20s, and my experience is that living it is nothing like as scary as it sounds. Frustrating, yes. And sometimes inconvenient and downright annoying, but there is freedom in those 4-jabs-a-day too that more than makes up for the hassle. 🙂
Do you take medication to help you manage your glucose levels?
I thing it’s a bit rough on T2s who sometimes get ‘threatened’ with insulin almost as if it’s a punishment for ‘doing badly’. You don’t get any of that nonsense as a T1. Insulin is just an essential tool to help you (and keep you alive!). As a T1 I’ve been on 4 or more injections a day since my 20s, and my experience is that living it is nothing like as scary as it sounds. Frustrating, yes. And sometimes inconvenient and downright annoying, but there is freedom in those 4-jabs-a-day too that more than makes up for the hassle. 🙂
Hi Mike, yes I'm on metformin, sitigliptin and dapagliflozin, every time I go for my check up they threaten the next change to my meds would be insulin. My dad has been on insulin for nearly 40 years so I've grown up around his injections and it does seem to give you some flexibility and the CGM are fab, so much more prefererable than stabbing your finger multiple times a day! I'm so glad I found this forum, everyone is super friendly and helpful
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Ugh! That’s so unhelpful!
Sometimes forum members suggest to T2s who are struggling to balance their levels that they should actually ask about moving onto insulin, as it feels like the most flexible and helpful option in the circumstances they are describing.
Threatening, and treating it as if it’s something to be avoided just seems completely unnecessarily stigmatising to me
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