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- 38 minutes ago
  
  Gerald Oefelein likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  If my meal is weighted towards the protein/fat side of things, I will dose for protein grams at 1/2 the dose I would for the same number of carb grams. I also use extended bolus - maybe 45 minutes or so.
- 39 minutes ago
  
  Gerald Oefelein likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  Most often. The amount varies for serving size, how the protein is prepared, IOB, time of day, etc.
- 5 hours, 42 minutes ago
  
  KSannie likes your comment at
  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  My coworkers at all of my jobs have known I have T1D
- 5 hours, 42 minutes ago
  
  KSannie likes your comment at
  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  Yes, I'm very open about my T1D at work for a couple of reasons: 1) For my safety: I have a history of hypoglycemia unawareness, so it's important that those around me know how to recognize and treat if needed. 2) hopefully to educate and inspire. I work in diabetes research, with both clinicians and lab scientists. By openly sharing my experiences I hope to remind them of the importance and urgency of their work and what their scientific advances could mean for T1Ds in the real world.
- 5 hours, 43 minutes ago
  
  KSannie likes your comment at
  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  Just on Thursday I had to tell my boss I couldn't take a check to the bank because of low blood sugar. She is not in the same state, so telephone calls can mask a lot. I could tell from her reaction that she had no idea why a low blood sugar would prevent me from getting in a car. I will have to do some more education... just, at the time, my blood sugar was low and I couldn't think straight. (LOL) The people I work closest with know for sure... there are some who are occasional co-workers who know... and then a bunch who I don't interact with all that much who likely don't know... but, maybe they do. Who knows? They may have overheard me explaining something about diabetes.
- 5 hours, 45 minutes ago
  
  KSannie likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  I said "other". I don't immediatly bolus extra, which would likely drive me low. I switch to an extended bolus. I often get BG increase that's delayed as much as 4-5 hours after the meal. I wish my (Tandem) pump didn't limited extended boluses to 2 hours.
- 5 hours, 45 minutes ago
  
  KSannie likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  I do not take extra insulin for proteins. If my blood sugar goes up, I will take extra insulin.
- 6 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
  Eva likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  If my meal is weighted towards the protein/fat side of things, I will dose for protein grams at 1/2 the dose I would for the same number of carb grams. I also use extended bolus - maybe 45 minutes or so.
- 6 hours, 20 minutes ago
  
  Eva likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  It depends on the fat content of the meat. Fatty beef …yes.
- 6 hours, 42 minutes ago
  
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  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  I am not suggesting you need to tell everyone, but I hope you never have a medical emergency while at work. Paramedics will have a better understanding of how to help you if something should happen to you if they know you are diabetic.
- 6 hours, 44 minutes ago
  
  William Bennett likes your comment at
  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  Totally agree! I was diagnosed at 18 and remember how little I knew about this disease before I had to live it. Most people don't have T1D or live with someone who does, so their understanding is often limited to the T2D relatives most of us have and broad generalizations in the media. What better way to break through stereotypes and misconceptions than by sharing our personal stories? Then the next time that person encounters diabetes oversimplifications, they can say... "Actually I met someone with T1D and..." Grass roots diabetes education. 🙂
- 6 hours, 53 minutes ago
  
  Karen DeVeaux likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  If my meal is weighted towards the protein/fat side of things, I will dose for protein grams at 1/2 the dose I would for the same number of carb grams. I also use extended bolus - maybe 45 minutes or so.
- 7 hours, 57 minutes ago
  
  Bea Anderson likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  Yes I give 1 unit of insulin for every once of protein spread out for two hours
- 9 hours, 46 minutes ago
  
  Vicki Andersen likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  If my meal is weighted towards the protein/fat side of things, I will dose for protein grams at 1/2 the dose I would for the same number of carb grams. I also use extended bolus - maybe 45 minutes or so.
- 9 hours, 47 minutes ago
  
  Vicki Andersen likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  one can discuss this until the cows come home, therefore trial-n-error is the only way to ascertain as each meat varies. As an example, take a chicken leg, it can be cooked a half dozen different ways, each leg will contain a different glucose level.
- 9 hours, 47 minutes ago
  
  Vicki Andersen likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  Other because I do t bolus for protein at dinner time, but I do bolus 2 to 4 hours later, when the proteins and fats hit my bloodstream.
- 9 hours, 48 minutes ago
  
  Vicki Andersen likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  I said "other". I don't immediatly bolus extra, which would likely drive me low. I switch to an extended bolus. I often get BG increase that's delayed as much as 4-5 hours after the meal. I wish my (Tandem) pump didn't limited extended boluses to 2 hours.
- 10 hours, 8 minutes ago
  
  cynthia jaworski likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  Other because I do t bolus for protein at dinner time, but I do bolus 2 to 4 hours later, when the proteins and fats hit my bloodstream.
- 10 hours, 40 minutes ago
  
  CindyGoddard likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  Yes I have to add extra insulin for protein to my mealtime bolus. Still wrapping my head around having to. It's also a guessing game at this point because of no way to measure carbs in meat.....
- 10 hours, 40 minutes ago
  
  CindyGoddard likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  It all depends on how much meat I am eating. If eating a bunch of meat, I’ll add insulin (like the equivalent of 10-15g of carb depending on how much meat I’ve eated
- 10 hours, 40 minutes ago
  
  CindyGoddard likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  one can discuss this until the cows come home, therefore trial-n-error is the only way to ascertain as each meat varies. As an example, take a chicken leg, it can be cooked a half dozen different ways, each leg will contain a different glucose level.
- 10 hours, 50 minutes ago
  
  Jeff Balbirnie likes your comment at
  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  I do not want to know their sexual, or marital, or psychological histories for any reason. Why on earth would I share something so intimate with people whom I would never trust to lead me from a burning building?! They are unworthy, and unless I trust them, I would never reveal anything even slightly personal to them, for any reason EVER. My condition(s) or the lack thereof are literally none of their business. If you do "know", (sic. I am) then we have bled together, and you have earned the right through the fires of my diabetes or experiences which we shared and were life and death. So no, not a prayer.
- 11 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Jeff Balbirnie likes your comment at
  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  I was diagnosed in 1977 at the age of 12 and learned pretty quick to keep my disease a secret. Kids would tease me, and say hurtful things like they would not get close to me because they would get diabetes. Later in life I was passed up on a job that I was very qualified for because of diabetes. Therefor I have found that being transparent with my disease typically has more disadvantages than advantages.
- 11 hours, 6 minutes ago
  
  Jeff Balbirnie likes your comment at
  Do your coworkers know that you live with T1D at your current job (or your most recent job, if you are not currently working)?
  There’s at least 2 others with Type 1 and we talk about our blood sugars and joke about the food that raises blood sugars. Nice to have some fun.
- 12 hours, 8 minutes ago
  
  TEH likes your comment at
  When eating a serving of protein (i.e., chicken, fish, steak, pork), do you give extra insulin for your meal bolus? Share what works for you in the comments!
  If my meal is weighted towards the protein/fat side of things, I will dose for protein grams at 1/2 the dose I would for the same number of carb grams. I also use extended bolus - maybe 45 minutes or so.
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