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  lis be likes your comment at
  Do you bolus insulin for “total carbs” (including fiber) or “net carbs” (total carbs minus fiber)?
  If my meal includes more that 5 grams of fiber I subtract from carbs. Otherwise no.
- 16 hours, 15 minutes ago
  
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  Do you keep track of where you rotate your CGM site?
  No need to track it’s pretty obvious. Switch sides each time and try to miss any visible puncture spots
- 20 hours, 47 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It really depends on when I catch it and how low it is. If I see it early enough I treat it and just watch it to make sure it is recovering.
- 22 hours, 5 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I usually think "oh goody I can have some chocolate!"
- 22 hours, 5 minutes ago
  
  Chris Albright likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Very anxious when it is really low, but not anxious at all when it is just mildly low.
- 22 hours, 6 minutes ago
  
  Chris Albright likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  My anxiety kicks in a bit when low treatments seem to take forever to have an impact.
- 22 hours, 7 minutes ago
  
  Chris Albright likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It depends on how fast it is dropping and how quickly it responds to my attempts to raise it back to normal.
- 22 hours, 24 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It all depends on how low, where I am and what I'm doing and if I can easily eat/drink fast acting carbs to treat it. I only get anxious if it's taking a long time to bring bg level up to my target of 110 and I'm out in public.
- 22 hours, 24 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It depends on how fast it is dropping and how quickly it responds to my attempts to raise it back to normal.
- 22 hours, 24 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Depends on how low and what I am doing. Like today I had one at work where Dexcom said low but because I could treat and had two people with them, aware of it, I was okay.
- 22 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Depends on how low and for how long. Generally not anxious as much as sweating and foggy headed.
- 22 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  My anxiety kicks in a bit when low treatments seem to take forever to have an impact.
- 22 hours, 26 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I usually get more annoyed than anxious...It typically happens when I'm in the middle of working! I work as a private clarinet instructor so it's just me and the student and it's really difficult to string words together when I'm low.
- 22 hours, 26 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Very anxious when it is really low, but not anxious at all when it is just mildly low.
- 22 hours, 26 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It varies. It depends on how low and how long.
- 22 hours, 59 minutes ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  My anxiety kicks in a bit when low treatments seem to take forever to have an impact.
- 1 day ago
  
  KarenM6 likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  My anxiety kicks in a bit when low treatments seem to take forever to have an impact.
- 1 day ago
  
  KarenM6 likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I usually think "oh goody I can have some chocolate!"
- 1 day ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  Two Reese's Peanut Butter cups for me 😊
- 1 day ago
  
  KarenM6 likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I don’t feel anxious when my blood sugar goes low but when it goes high, I get very worried.
- 1 day ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It depends on how fast it is dropping and how quickly it responds to my attempts to raise it back to normal.
- 1 day ago
  
  Janis Senungetuk likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  My anxiety kicks in a bit when low treatments seem to take forever to have an impact.
- 1 day ago
  
  Janis Senungetuk likes your comment at
  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It varies. It depends on how low and how long.
- 1 day ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  It varies. It depends on how low and how long.
- 1 day, 1 hour ago
  
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  When you have low blood glucose, how anxious do you generally feel?
  I usually think "oh goody I can have some chocolate!"
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Christel Oerum

Christel is a Los Angeles based speaker, writer, diabetes coach, and diabetes advocate. She has been living with type 1 diabetes since 1997 and at an early stage decided that it wasn’t going to slow her down. Her motto is “There is Nothing You Can’t do With Diabetes”. She writes about how to be Fit With Diabetes on DiabetesStrong.com and great food on DiabeticFoodie.com. She also coaches people with diabetes from across the globe, online and in-person, and supports them in meeting their health and fitness goals. Christel holds an MBA in Finance & Strategy and an ISSA Personal Trainer certification with specialization in Fitness and Diabetes (Level 3 certified from the Diabetes Motion Academy).

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