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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      One time I was explaining that a new pump would be too expensive at the time because my deductible had just started over.. and she asked if I had insurance and I said yes….. then she said “then it should be free with insurance.” 🤦‍♀️ She may know a little about the challenges of living with diabetes, but she knows nothing about how insurance works or how costly T1D supplies are.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      I fell in love with an insulin-dependent Type 2 20 years ago. There’s something terribly romantic about taking Lantus together at the end of the day.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      I am an RN. Been going to same doctor for about ten years. Took me six years to train him. I am very well read when it comes to my LADA. He trusts my judgement and gives me excellent parameters to make decisions. Recently had a bad case of Covid. Insulin needs changed dramatically. Getting back to normal but he made sure I had scripts to cover my ups and downs with insulin needs.
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      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      Mine acknowledges the struggles and challenges that go along with managing T1D in my daily life. She gives suggestions as to what may or may not help and has often asked me I how I handle situations so she can give suggestions to other T1D patient's.
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      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      None of my endocrinologists or NPs have had T1D but I always discuss my challenges and they are incredibly helpful. What I always find astonishing is they are constantly amazed at how well I’m doing even when i don’t think I’m doing that well because most of their patients have nowhere near the A1c’s I’m able to achieve. And just hovers in the 6’s!
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      The hard spots are fairly frequent with the pump infusion sets. Especially if I go past 3 days which I try to avoid! I don’t think I ever got one from injections. I try heat and massaging to treat them and they normally go away after a day or so. Once I had a large area that I had to treat with antibiotics.
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      I’m 79. My last orgasm was springtime about 3 or 4 years ago. When I complained of ED, my PCP Rxd 3 to 5 (60-100 mg) sildenafil tablets by mouth about one hour prior to sexual activity. This alone hasn’t worked to bring me up to former sexual capacity that I had 10 years years ago. I’m still considering consulting finding a doctor who’ll prescribe a safe but effective way of administering testosterone or an anabolic steroid in a dose low enough to avoid causing cardiovascular problems but high enough to restore normal ability that I had up to my sixties. My present doctors say it can’t be done, but there are doctors who advertise otherwise. Analogs of the hormone insulin can be delivered in small safe doses, why not testosterone?
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      We are all so very different, and trying to say that all of us with T1 understand what it's like for another who has the same hill to climb is unproductive. Having a health care provider with T1 may often be helpful just because there's apt to be more knowledge about the specifics. How we respond to the disease is such a personal matter, that I really don't think there are any guaranteed benefits beyond the grasp of the factual. Finding a doc with the same general attitude about the disease does feel good, and sometimes that's all I hope for after working hard to make peace with the disease for 70 years. Asking my doc to "get it" used to be almost my mantra, but I've come to realize that the ones who don't just see us as unruly childrenchildren
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      Both my endocrinologist and my nurse practitioner are great. They compliment me on the way I take care of my life and health and make aure I get all the supplies I need managing all the paperwork Medicare and insurance requires. My nurse practitioner who works with me on managing the pump has her own opinion about the pump settings based on her technical knowledge which is different than what I do with my settings based on living with them. She has thru the years learned to respect what I do and is surprised with how my settings work. So we are now at peace. Both very supportive.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      Yes. However, for those of you who assert, "It takes one to know one," the same might be said of age. Geriatrics is a marvelous array of marvels.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      I said yes but that refers to my nurse practitioner who sees me every other visit, if not more often. The doctor may know how hard I try but perhaps takes my efforts for granted.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      How can someone without the disease really understand what it is to live with it? I have never had a doctor with T1D in 60 years.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      Yes. However, for those of you who assert, "It takes one to know one," the same might be said of age. Geriatrics is a marvelous array of marvels.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My endo is young, very empathetic, thorough, always asks for my input, and does research. I am blessed too. have him, and the one before for over 25 yrs.
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      Yes. However, for those of you who assert, "It takes one to know one," the same might be said of age. Geriatrics is a marvelous array of marvels.
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      lis be likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      None of my endocrinologists or NPs have had T1D but I always discuss my challenges and they are incredibly helpful. What I always find astonishing is they are constantly amazed at how well I’m doing even when i don’t think I’m doing that well because most of their patients have nowhere near the A1c’s I’m able to achieve. And just hovers in the 6’s!
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      Daniel Bestvater likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      TEH likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      I have no clue what my T1D health care provider understands about my daily challenges and I don’t know about his daily challenges either. Not sure why I should care as long as I have access to information how to best take care of myself.
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      Jeff Marvel likes your comment at
      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      My provider does not have T1. Only someone with it can truly understand the various daily challenges and worth it takes to manage this.
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      Hi Connie, I still have my glass syringe and show it off occasionally. We boiled the needle and syringe every morning and sharpened the needle with a file. I was diagnosed at age 6 in 1963. Life is so different now! Then, my diet was extremely limited as was my exercise. Now, I am very active and eat pretty much as I please. I maintain an A1C in the low 6s (6.2 was my last).
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      Connie and Beth, I was diagnosed in Nov 1962, age 10. During the early years I developed lumps and indentations on my upper thighs from my injections. In fact, I was able t o spot other t1 kids in my junior high school based upon the lumps in their upper arms.. (I eventually met up with them and learned that I was correct.) By the time I reached my twenties, these indentations had more or less disappeared, but I still have remnants of the lumps. I wish I could say that the layers of tissue now deposited on my legs disguises them, but they don't. I think the changes in insulin have been responsible for this improvement: the isolation and purification of animal insulins were refined, and then the various human clones were game changers in many ways.
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      Yes in my upper arms when I was a petite and skinny child in the 1960s with T1D. In those days we used glass syringes with stainless steel 1/2 inch long heavy gauge needles. My mother would jab me in the upper arms, it hurt like the dickens, and I developed several hard nodules. I was diagnosed at age 8 in December 1962 and after the initial two months of her jabbing me in the upper arms, I took over giving my own "shots" and started self injecting via site rotation in my thighs for several years. Eventually the lipohypertrophy in my upper arms resolved and I never injected there again until many years later as an adult on MDI using disposable syringes with very short and fine gauge needle tips. Periodically I would give my tired pin cushion thighs a rest and take a break for a few months or a couple of years and rotate injections in my abdomen or upper arms. Have been using a pump for over 20 years now and rarely use MDI unless I am taking a pump break for a short period of time. Happily, I no longer have lumpy sites.
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    As someone who has T1D, how would you describe the amount of freedom you feel you have with your food choices (e.g., what you eat, how much you eat, what times you eat)?

    Home > LC Polls > As someone who has T1D, how would you describe the amount of freedom you feel you have with your food choices (e.g., what you eat, how much you eat, what times you eat)?
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    43 Comments

    1. Amy Schneider

      As a T1D, I don’t eat deep fried foods as it’s too difficult to figure out my boluses. However, as a Weight Watcher, I’m just as glad I don’t eat deep fried foods.

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    2. LizB

      I don’t ever say that anything is off limits, but I also don’t just eat everything ‘because I can”. For the most part I stick to what I am familiar with. If I go out to eat with someone I would never say that there is nothing on the menu that I can eat. I can always find something. Sometimes I end up eating things with lots of fat and carbs and if I mess up my BG for a bit I deal with it.

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    3. Ahh Life

      “What, how much, and what time” I feel complete freedom.

      How fast I eat is an entirely different threat and opportunity. The faster I eat, the worse I feel. Slow, relaxing meals and snacks are good for the soul. I think many Europeans have it right: slow down and enjoy the dining. 🎻

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    4. Lawrence S.

      I answered “a little freedom”, but could have easily said almost none. I had great difficulty answering this question because it doesn’t take into account that I also have celiac disease. My food choices are limit in quantity by my T1D, but my kinds and quality of foods are very restricted by my celiac. No gluten, no wheat, barley, rye, and most oats. Things like soy sauce must be specifically labeled “gluten free.” Dining out is no longer a pleasurable experience, and I avoid it.
      Having said that, I eat very well, and a fairly wide variety of foods. But, not all the foods I would like to eat.

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    5. Jane Cerullo

      Well I’m not going to top dinner off with a hot fudge sundae. Bit would I do that as a non diabetic? No. We all need to make good food choices in life for any number of reasons.

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    6. Ginger Vieira

      This is a tricky question to answer because while I feel that I make my own choices every day, my choices are 100% driven by the fact that I have type 1 diabetes. Sure, I could choose to eat a bowl of cereal every morning and eat pizza for lunch every day, but those choices would complicate the heck out my type 1 diabetes and inevitably make my day harder. Type 1 diabetes influences every single decision and habit I have around food. I’ve embraced that fact and use it to empower my decisions — known I get to choose, and I’m going to choose the foods/habits/schedule that makes T1D easier. (And yes, that includes saving room for dessert every night…because I am still human! And a girl needs chocolate.)

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      1. Mig Vascos

        You’re so right about the chocolate even if only one bite at times.

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    7. Ms Cris

      Ugh, it’s been several years of delaying with this T1, and I’m amazed at how crazy sensitive I am to ALL carbs and protein. Really, really sensitive, to the point where if I want to function well at all, I have to be strict. I also have some allergies – like tomato, sulfites, beef – making things more difficult.

      So I’ve settled on the following rules: ~90% of the time, I strictly follow my meal and daily nutritional macros, know my quantity limits with certain foods, etc. Plan far ahead with eating out. So when there’s a birthday, holiday, etc., I allow myself to go with the flow a bit, and sugar surf. Overall, these excursions will have minimal long term impact, so I’m good with it. My will power is way stronger than I ever imagined.

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    8. Ernie Richmann

      My goal is to eat healthy. There are many great tasting and healthy food choices. Seeing a lot of very heavy people my age in wheel chairs. I don’t want to go there.

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    9. Debra Nance

      I was told when I started on a pump, back in 2000, that I could eat anything anytime I wanted. I still follow that philosophy.

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    10. pru barry

      Things have improved immeasurably over the years, largely due to short acting insulins. NPH had its own schedule, and eating was really ruled by the insulin’s activity curve. Fast acting insulin has transformed things, to the point that it’s hard to complain about the dietary aspects. …Short of the constraints that can keep nearly anyone healthy. A lifetime of hating the diabetes “diet” has gradually become the feeling that it is my choice to eat a healthy diet, and I often find that I’m almost grateful for what started out feeling like a tyrant’s regime!

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    11. Sherolyn Newell

      I have a sweet tooth and a bottomless stomach. Then I was diagnosed with T1 a bit past 50. So now I sometimes have to limit the quantity of higher carb/fat foods, but I haven’t given them up. If I want a cheeseburger and fries, I give up the bun. If I want the bun, I give up the fries. Dessert has to be separate from the meal, unless it’s a really low carb meal. There are foods that I used to eat in much larger portions, but I still get to eat them in lower quantities. By the way, I know it sounds like I must weigh 1000 pounds, but I was lucky enough to be born with a “thin” jean. LOL.

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    12. Lynn Smith

      I feel entirely constrained, but that doesn’t mean I don’t make choices I shouldn’t. The only rule I never break is I never eat anything containing gluten; I have Celiac disease. The consequences of eating gluten are even worse and longer lasting than eating too many carbs. 😩

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    13. kristina blake

      I answered a lot – but that has to be in my perspective: I am not a foodie. I have never enjoyed eating, so in my world view – I have a lot of freeedom. As was stated above, back in the “old days” with the Nph and R regimen having to eat was a hardship. Now I only eat when I am either very hungry or when my CGM says it’s okay (in the 80 bg range) or I am trending low. I am trying to get my professional ballerina body back, so I count calories as well as carbs etc. My pump and the analog insulins allow me the freedom to not eat – which I value.

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      1. sweet charlie

        kristina, I am doing what I did in the old days [ 70 years ago ] except with the available “new” insulins.. I have NOT had any T1D problems, but sory to say have recently bin diagnosed with possible Asbestos related lung cancer.. I am 90 years OLD..

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    14. Claude Laforest

      Mon objectif comme DT1 n’est pas de manger ce que je veux, mais de respecter le guide alimentaire canadien, comme recommandé à la population en général. Rassurer les patients en leur disant qu’ils peuvent manger ce qu’ils veulent est une fausse vérité!

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      1. Ahh Life

        tout droit mon ami

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      2. KarenM6

        50+ years ago, my mom was given that exact advice (to eat whatever I wanted). I’ve always thought it was detrimental to me.
        I believe newer technologies and software make it easier for T1Ds to “eat what we want” although I haven’t explored the possibility. I think my body would rebel eventually!

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      3. Wanacure

        “My goal as a T1D is not to eat whatever I want, but to eat as most other Canadians. Reassure the patients on this site that eating whatever you want is a false choice.”
        Did I get that mostly right or mostly wrong? Merci. C’il vous plait, contribute again in French.

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      4. Lawrence S.

        Thanks for the translation, Wanacure. Funny, I took 5 years of French in high school and college (50 years ago), but, seldom had the chance to use it. Unfortunately, I was unable to translate enough words to get any meaning out of Claude’s statement. But, thank you, Claude, for your input.

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    15. Janis Senungetuk

      My answer is “other” because of a relativity recent ( 2+ yrs) dx of chronic kidney disease. The need to choose low potassium foods and then limit the portion size of those foods has definitely thrown a wrench into the relief I felt when Control IQ came into my life. For a very brief moment I was able to enjoy BBQ again without the need to constantly monitor my glucose level and make corrections. Now that’s past tense. Considering my life now in contrast to when I first began 67 years ago, T1D does not totally restrict what and when I eat. I’m grateful that I can still enjoy good food.

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    16. Becky Hertz

      As a T1D alone, I have some freedom in my food choices. I know how my body reacts to certain foods. However, as a T1D following a renal diet, that leniency has tightened up quite a bit.

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    17. Bill Williams

      My mantra for a very long time has been “Manage your diabetes; don’t let it manage you.” There are very few foods that I cannot manage with the right insulin dose and some exercise.

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    18. Amanda Barras

      I picked Some. But, if I was truly. Eating to my disease like I should and treating Carbs as if I was allergic to them, I would have little no freedom and be on a very strict low carb diet. It helps with using less insulin, insulin resistance, and weight loss. But, carbs are like drugs. Sugar is so addictive, and I can’t kick the habit.

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      1. Wanacure

        When my dad cooked the family breakfast, he always included really thick oatmeal (just the right amount of salt), each serving topped with a pat of butter, sprinkle of cinnamon and raisins and drizzled with honey. You don’t think it was hard for me to give up just plain old oatmeal fifty years later? If I can cut the carb addiction in half, and go without oatmeal, you can too. And all the penny candies and variety of candy bars!

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    19. Pauline M Reynolds

      I feel more constrained by limitations due to other health conditions, like gastroparesis, heart disease, HBP, etc.

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    20. Mig Vascos

      I have a lot of other problems with my food choices since it’s not only the T1D. I’m also dairy intolerant and gluten sensitive, plus I’ve been working in maintaining a more even glucose line on graphics on my on the Clarity app. I feel I’d I can control my carb peaks after meal then I won’t have to overdose on insulin and end up with a low. I’m also do a lot of exercise, so I have to include that in the mix.
      No more roller coasters drive will make my life so much easier.

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    21. KarenM6

      I am not all that fond of food in general. So, I eat as close to “healthy” as I can. But, that is not to say I deny myself any celebratory “cakes and cookies”. Dessert, on occasion, can be good. But, the funny thing is, I don’t like the sweet aftertaste! LOL

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    22. Kevin McCue

      There are no valid choices. I am always a slave to my glucose levels. Stress and food control the rises, sometimes insulin resistance overcomes all and throwing dozens of units at highs do nothing at all. Exercise sometimes will give a modicum of relief but lately it’s like I am dosing with water. I am sure it will pass but at the moment I am in survival mode just trying to keep it from going higher. For someone e that normally has 6.5 A1c it is humbling to be reminded how little we can do

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    23. Wanacure

      If you eat slowly, look and smell each bit, and chew thoroughly, you will feel satiated…if you aren’t eating junk food, overly salted or sugary food which is DESIGNED to be habit-forming. Same thing with drinking. You don’t guzzle a pricey craft brew or a wine or whatever. You savor it. You sit and look around at the friendly comfortable environment. You engage in conversation. You read (or write) an email or a couple of pages or do 1/5 of a crossword puzzle. Or you draw part of a picture. If you’re inside an office, go outside to the plaza, walk to the waterfront or river bank to eat lunch. I take pleasure in eating foods nutritionally rich: that knowledge seems to make them taste even better. But I still can’t eat liver! My mom cooked kidney…once. The house smelled like a pissoir (French for Seattle skid road alley doorway). Yeah, I try to stay on a regular schedule with many of the same foods for long periods. But my tastes are always evolving.

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    24. AnitaS

      For the most part, I am able to eat what I want, but I always have my sugar level in the back of my mind when actually deciding what or how much to eat. And sometimes that means eating more than I actually want to because my blood sugar level would go too low if I don’t get some carbs and/or protein in me.

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    25. mbulzomi@optonline.net

      If it wasn’t for self-control, when you are on an Insulin pump and CGMS. You could eat anything you want, but in the end, you will be paying the price, overweight, out of diabetes control. Who knows how short your life will be.

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    26. davidgenesse@hotmail.com

      With LCHP, I feel super happy and well in control of my situation

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    27. Mary Dexter

      I don’t eat yucky stuff.

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    28. Melissa Childers

      Celiac along with T1D makes food chiices super constraining due to increased carb counts and how the carbs are absorbed ib gluten free doods.

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    29. sweet charlie

      Very little fredom!! T1d for 70 years, 90 years OLD.. NO T1D problems.. But… just diagnosed with possible Asbestos related lung cancer, so if I dissapear from this SITE, you will know why !!

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      1. Lawrence S.

        Wishing the best for you. From a friend and fan.

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    30. Annie Simon

      As long as I take my recommended insulin pre meal and if I’m having a bigger dinner(ie. restaurant/party etc) I will adjust my insulin accordingly pre meal. Generally I feel my dosage has been sufficient and of course I follow a healthy diet and follow my daily protein fats starches fruit dairy that make up my daily meal counts that was designed my my diabetic dietician👍

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    31. Claude Laforest

      As a DT1, my goal is not to eat whatever I want, but to adopt the same health recommandations as the rest of the population. Reassuring DT1 patients by telling them they can eat everything is a false truth!

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    32. Jeff Balbirnie

      Not sure you’re asking the right question(s) here….

      The insulins now available allow extreme freedom re anything we want to eat whenever we want to eat it.

      Getting that coverage text book perfect , or whether we should be eating XYZ are very different question.

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    33. ChrisW

      We are all free to make our own choices. I choose to eat foods that are good for me.
      This is the second question in a week that will fail to give meaningful results because of the word choices.

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    34. T1D4LongTime

      If my BG is in range AND my infusion site is working well, I don’t feel very constrained on food choices. I very, very rarely splurge on high carb snacks, but will occasionally eat a small dessert if the above things are good. LOL!

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    35. Elizabeth Orrick

      It’s so much better than it was “way back when”. The “Some” choice having so many people is an amazing sign of good things that ARE coming, have come, and gives the impression that we are getting better

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