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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I’m almost always more informed of the reported advancements in T1 treatments than my doc. So I usually bounce ideas off the doc for his input.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I am my own advocate. I read about new devices and always investigate side effects of any new medication before starting. I usually bring up but then have good discussion with Endo before making decisions.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      With my endo, I usually have to ask. With the Diabetes Educator, she'll make the suggestion first. They're both very aware that I'm dependent on insurance covering the majority of the cost.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I wouldn't say that my T1D healthcare provider OFTEN suggests medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to my diabetes management, but they do SOMETIMES suggest options available to me. (I was privileged to be the first person, in the area that I live, to be offered CSII (Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion, or pump technology) to help control my diabetes. This was after my endocrinologist attended a diabetes conference in the United States where a former Miss America, Nicole Johnson, was demonstrating a Medtronic/MiniMed insulin pump. He asked her for more information on how these pumps work, mentioning that I had extreme difficulty in controlling my diabetes, with me spending as much time in hospital as I was at home when I was taking multiple daily injections (MDI). On his return to the UK, he offered me the opportunity to 'trial' the pump, which I accepted. This was in 1989.)
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      No, I was the one who had diabetes
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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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      Already married over forty years when I was diagnosed.
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      I never knew of anyone who had diabetes, type 1 or 2 before I was married. I became a T1D after I was married.
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      I answered “no.” I don’t think my girlfriend at diabetes children’s camp when I was 13 counts. While I think there would be a lot I would have in common with a partner with T1D, I wouldn’t want that to be what brought us together, and I don’t think it would keep us together.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      went on one date with a T1D. she had been dx'd as a child (I was dx'd at 43) so she was very old school. she ragged on me during the entire date about my menu choices, my carbs estimation for my shot and she lost her mind when I ordered a Corona! punchline is that my sugar was less than 150 when I went to sleep.
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      When I was married, diabetes was not in the picture at all. All I knew was an uncle who died in 1929 because he refused injections. I developed LADA in my 40's, followed by my husband with Type 2, then my two daughters who had PCOS and Type 2, then my son with Type 2. Enough.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      I am married to someone with Type 2.
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      I have been married since 1985. My wife Susan does not have either type 1 or 2 diabetes, but rather type 3 diabetes- spouse or mate of someone with T1D...:) She has been my guardian for night lows, though she has rarely had to intervene since I started CGM in 8-2006.
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      I dated someone, but I was/am not out of the closet about having T1 so he didn’t know that I have T1
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      My husband was diagnosis at age 3 and I was diagnosed at age 4.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I wouldn't say that my T1D healthcare provider OFTEN suggests medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to my diabetes management, but they do SOMETIMES suggest options available to me. (I was privileged to be the first person, in the area that I live, to be offered CSII (Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion, or pump technology) to help control my diabetes. This was after my endocrinologist attended a diabetes conference in the United States where a former Miss America, Nicole Johnson, was demonstrating a Medtronic/MiniMed insulin pump. He asked her for more information on how these pumps work, mentioning that I had extreme difficulty in controlling my diabetes, with me spending as much time in hospital as I was at home when I was taking multiple daily injections (MDI). On his return to the UK, he offered me the opportunity to 'trial' the pump, which I accepted. This was in 1989.)
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I think my healthcare providers learn about new medications and devices at about the same time that I do. This wasn't the case when I was first diagnosed, pre-internet. Back then, I always looked forward to seeing my CDE because I knew I'd come away with something to make my life easier/better.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      I have been married since 1985. My wife Susan does not have either type 1 or 2 diabetes, but rather type 3 diabetes- spouse or mate of someone with T1D...:) She has been my guardian for night lows, though she has rarely had to intervene since I started CGM in 8-2006.
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      I may already be on the best medications and devices available to me.
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      beth nelson likes your comment at
      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I wouldn't say that my T1D healthcare provider OFTEN suggests medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to my diabetes management, but they do SOMETIMES suggest options available to me. (I was privileged to be the first person, in the area that I live, to be offered CSII (Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion, or pump technology) to help control my diabetes. This was after my endocrinologist attended a diabetes conference in the United States where a former Miss America, Nicole Johnson, was demonstrating a Medtronic/MiniMed insulin pump. He asked her for more information on how these pumps work, mentioning that I had extreme difficulty in controlling my diabetes, with me spending as much time in hospital as I was at home when I was taking multiple daily injections (MDI). On his return to the UK, he offered me the opportunity to 'trial' the pump, which I accepted. This was in 1989.)
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      beth nelson likes your comment at
      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I think my healthcare providers learn about new medications and devices at about the same time that I do. This wasn't the case when I was first diagnosed, pre-internet. Back then, I always looked forward to seeing my CDE because I knew I'd come away with something to make my life easier/better.
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      I had to answer “other” because I just got a new endo after my other one retired so I’ve only met with him once. Too early to discuss new technology or medications.
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      beth nelson likes your comment at
      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I’m almost always more informed of the reported advancements in T1 treatments than my doc. So I usually bounce ideas off the doc for his input.
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      I am on the Dexcom, I’m not on a pump though. I am LADA so I have very high insulin resistance, so I use a lot of insulin & there’s just not a pump that would be efficient for my amount of insulin. I’ve tried to get Afrezza, but every Endoc I bring it up to won’t prescribe it. Even though I bring them evidence that it doesn’t cause lung cancer when you’re not a smoker. So frustrating that we can’t agree on that course of treatment.
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    Before giving an insulin injection or inserting a needle for a pump/CGM site, do you pinch the skin before injecting?

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    27 Comments

    1. Becky Hertz

      Other, between sometimes and rarely

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    2. Ahh Life

      ( ͡❛ ‿●‿ ͡❛) Never. Needles are so microscopically thin and short nowadays, that even us slimmer people have plenty of room for them. In the good ol’ days? Not so much so, so you had to pinch the skin. ( ͡❛ ︹ ͡❛)

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    3. Nevin Bowman

      Yes. I’m very thin and always hit muscle tissue if I don’t pinch first, and sometimes even when I do. That is extremely painful.

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    4. brettsmith115

      I’ll pinch for the rare syringe injection, mostly out of habit. For CGM/Pump insertion I never pinch.

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    5. Nicholas Argento

      No- pump with catheter, pinching increases the chance it will not insert properly because the skin can dimple more easily when pinched.

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    6. Meghan Larson

      I do, but only for my Dexcom G6 insertion, not for insulin injections.

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    7. Lawrence Stearns

      Interesting. I always pinch for my cannula insertion, but never for my G6 sensor. Just the opposite of Meghan. I cannot imagine inserting my cannula without pinching. I’m thin and would otherwise be inserting directly into muscle tissue.

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      1. Sherolyn Newell

        I’m thin too, so I don’t get much of a pinch. But I do the same as you.

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    8. TEH

      I don’t pinch but I do feel if there is a bump indicating lot of scar tissue.

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      1. Sahran Holiday

        Scar tissue might be overuse of that area. Think if you should shift over a tiny bit.

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    9. Pauline Hess

      I only pinch the skin if using a syringe. Otherwise, I think it would affect the adhesive.

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    10. Sahran Holiday

      If I can depending where I place the Omnipod. Insures that the canula inserts properly.

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    11. connie ker

      I always pinch up the core skin for injecting insulin, I do not pinch up the arm skin for the Freestyle Libre sensor insertion.

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    12. cynthia jaworski

      Often, I am injected insulin in my arm, using the other hand. I would have to pinch with my toes!

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    13. Tom Caesar

      When I used to inject, always pinched skin. Now with infusion site or Dexcon sensor, never. Would need to grab an enormous amount of skin!

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    14. Jennifer Franklin

      When I was on MDI, yes, I would pinch the skin. Now that I am on a pump, no, I don’t pinch. I also do not pinch the skin for CGM insertion.

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    15. Sharon Lillibridge

      why would i do that
      ?

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    16. Sjoymex

      For an injection yes always. For pump/cgm never.

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    17. Sherolyn Newell

      Interesting comments. I never thought about hitting muscle if I didn’t pinch. I just do it because I was told to pinch. I also didn’t know why it sometimes hurts a lot and other times not at all.

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    18. NAK Marshall

      Needles are so tiny and short now and I’m chubby so no need! : )

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    19. Mary Ann Sayers

      When giving an injection, I ALWAYS pinch. When inserting for the pump/CGM, I NEVER pinch.

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    20. Molly Jones

      I chose sometimes although I never pinch or hold tissue up WHILE inserting my pump or CGM.
      It depends on where I am inserting, but the answer is 50% as even the 3mm cannula’s can hurt or the CGM not work as well , when inserted into the wrong tissue.
      Two of my four pump sites are less fatty and need pinching. When my CGM is inserted on my arms it needs pinching but not when inserted on my abdomen.

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    21. ConnieT1D62

      Rarely. Don’t pinch for pump or CGM insertion sites, and no need to pinch with short pen or syringe needle tips. I just inject straight-on into the chosen site. In the old days of longer, thicker needle tips – yes. But that was decades ago.

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    22. Biagio Lamberti

      Yes, I always pinch my skin, and over a period 14 years that I have being using Omnipod and other insulin pumps I noticed that this practices is helping a lot with the absorption of insulin over the period of the 3 days.

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    23. PamK

      I chose “Yes, sometimes” because I always pinch my skin when giving myself a shot and when inserting my CGM. Unfortunately, the insertion device for my pump infusion sets is too big for me to pinch the skin around it. Wish they’d make them smaller!

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    24. Isis Gregory

      Injection, yes. Pump/cgm site, no.

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    25. mentat

      I do a lot of intramuscular insulin injections, definitely no pinching for those! I usually don’t pinch the fat either.

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