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- 12 hours, 55 minutes ago
  
  KarenM6 likes your comment at
  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  I ALWAYS carry glucose tablets and often a granola bar and a water bottle.
- 12 hours, 55 minutes ago
  
  KarenM6 likes your comment at
  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  My diabetes bag goes with me everywhere, all of the time. "Never leave home without it."
- 12 hours, 57 minutes ago
  
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  About how often do you have glucagon with you?
  I carry Baqsimi with me along with glucose tablets
- 12 hours, 58 minutes ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  I said I am not sure. I don’t think you can have a chronic disease and NOT be affected emotionally. You have to think about it constantly if you are going to survive it with your body in tact. I have my moments but overall, I’m a positive person and I try not to let it get me down. Be strong my T1D friends out there. You all are my inspiration.
- 12 hours, 59 minutes ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  I never felt this until I went through Menopause. Mainly because I could not find any good information on how this life change affected me. I felt lost, when it came to my diabetes, for the first time in 50 years. It's only recently that I found information that is of some help (I've had T1 for almost 60 years now!).
- 12 hours, 59 minutes ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  Jeff Balbirnie--Although “we tend to think of hypochondria as shorthand for an illness that’s all in your head,” the people most worried about their health are very often the people who have the most reason to be. Otherwise, it's just simply death on the installment plan. Sigh! 🤔🤔
- 18 hours, 52 minutes ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  I said I am not sure. I don’t think you can have a chronic disease and NOT be affected emotionally. You have to think about it constantly if you are going to survive it with your body in tact. I have my moments but overall, I’m a positive person and I try not to let it get me down. Be strong my T1D friends out there. You all are my inspiration.
- 18 hours, 54 minutes ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  I responded Yes to the question, but the burnout feelings do not impact my self care or the management decisions / requirements that are needed to be made on a daily basis. I completely understand that in order to manage this disease, there is no time for worrying about things I cannot change.
- 18 hours, 55 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  Jeff Balbirnie--Although “we tend to think of hypochondria as shorthand for an illness that’s all in your head,” the people most worried about their health are very often the people who have the most reason to be. Otherwise, it's just simply death on the installment plan. Sigh! 🤔🤔
- 18 hours, 56 minutes ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  1,000% certain it has... unable to afford such care on any level. Dozens of locations, names have been called, emailed, visited. Between $150-$300 /session, care is not remotely affordable, therefore not possible. Some issues I can surely name, but, it is the one's I cannot name which openly terrify me.... diabetes is an insidious, and malevolent disease. The mental muds and emotional quick sands of T1 are no less dangerous than any physical issue ever could be. Withour tools, it always wins...
- 18 hours, 58 minutes ago
  
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  About how much time is left on your insulin pump warranty?
  Transitioned from older Medtronic Minimed Paradigm Pump and Freestyle CGM in Fall of 2020 to Tandem's t:slim with Control IQ and Dexcom. LOVE Contol IQ and the tighter control I'm getting. I'm beginning to explore my replacement options since Medicare will allow me to replace my pump in Fall of 2025. Medicare requires pump makers to warranty their pumps for 5 yrs vs the 4 yr warranty I experienced prior to my Medicare eligibility. I WISH the different model infusion sets would have a universal connector. I've tried all the infusion set models (Tru-steel, AutoSoft XC, AudioSoft 90 and AutoSoft 30 available with different cannula lengths because I have developed insulin absorption issues on day 3 of any infusion site...despite having rotated my infusion/injection sites from thighs, abdomen, hips, arms over 46+ years as a Type 1. I'm currently using the AutoSoft 30 sets.
- 1 day, 18 hours ago
  
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  About how often do you have glucagon with you?
  I have just started using micro-doses of glucagon to control low blood sugar and with exercise. It is working really well. No side effects or high BG after dosing.
- 1 day, 21 hours ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  Diabetes had a big emotional effect at diagnosis only. I was diagnosed as a adult, 45 years ago, then 37 yo. Then I looked for psychological support. Later, I became much positive and I manage with just moderate stress.
- 2 days, 2 hours ago
  
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  Have you ever accidentally given too much insulin and needed emergency glucagon?
  Only once - gave insulin for lunch then was called to assist someone (I’m a nurse) and midway through I realized my sugar was rapidly dropping. Tho I might pass out so grabbed my glucagon and asked the MD I work with to give it to me, watch and wait. I eventually was able to drink juice and eat, but it was an exhausting experience.
- 2 days, 13 hours ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  Diabetes had a big emotional effect at diagnosis only. I was diagnosed as a adult, 45 years ago, then 37 yo. Then I looked for psychological support. Later, I became much positive and I manage with just moderate stress.
- 2 days, 18 hours ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  I said I am not sure. I don’t think you can have a chronic disease and NOT be affected emotionally. You have to think about it constantly if you are going to survive it with your body in tact. I have my moments but overall, I’m a positive person and I try not to let it get me down. Be strong my T1D friends out there. You all are my inspiration.
- 2 days, 18 hours ago
  
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  Diabetes-related stress can affect a person’s emotional well-being, leading to feelings of frustration, burnout, diabetes distress, and others. Has T1D impacted your emotional health?
  It hasn't affected my on a long term basis but there are times the whole thing becomes such an overwhelming burden. I am lucky to have a positive attitidue, supportive husband, family and friends who let me have my moments and make sure I move on.
- 3 days, 12 hours ago
  
  Rebecca Killion likes your comment at
  If you’re on an insulin pump, have you ever used expired pump supplies (i.e., infusion sets, reservoirs, pods, etc.) and had any issues?
  Medicare has us right down to the wire i’ve never had that many extra supplies
- 5 days, 18 hours ago
  
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  Have you ever accidentally given too much insulin and needed emergency glucagon?
  I have accidentally given myself too much insulin but I just ate a whole lot of extra food & drinks to counteract it.
- 5 days, 18 hours ago
  
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  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  Doesn't matter where I'm going - I always have fast-acting sugar pills ad snacks. If by "supplies" you mean a site change kit, no. Only if I'm going somewhere overnight do I carry all that.
- 5 days, 18 hours ago
  
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  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  I always carry glucose tablets to any event I attend. However, I don't have a "bag" of supplies. I keep the tablets in my satchel, aka man purse.
- 5 days, 18 hours ago
  
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  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  I always have something for lows but only bring a bag when the event is all day or overnight.
- 5 days, 18 hours ago
  
  Gary Taylor likes your comment at
  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  I almost always bring glucose tablets to manage blood glucose.
- 5 days, 18 hours ago
  
  Gary Taylor likes your comment at
  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  Doesn't matter where I'm going - I always have fast-acting sugar pills ad snacks. If by "supplies" you mean a site change kit, no. Only if I'm going somewhere overnight do I carry all that.
- 6 days, 8 hours ago
  
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  When attending sporting events and or concerts, do you bring a “diabetes bag” with you? (i.e., extra supplies, snacks, fast-acting sugars, and glucagon)
  If the sporting event is a long duration event, I will bring supplies but not for short events.
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Jewels Doskicz, a registered nurse with 22 years of clinical experience, is a freelance medical writer and consultant. She and her daughter both live with T1D. As a passionate patient advocate, Jewels draws from her extensive first-hand experience to empower patients with the knowledge they need to live healthfully. Jewels has a special interest in autoimmune disease (particularly T1D), health technology, and treatments that are changing the way diseases are managed. Jewels lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, but she’s often found exploring the West in her VW Eurovan.

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