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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?
      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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      Steve Rumble likes your comment at
      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.
    • 15 hours, 49 minutes ago
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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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      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.
    • 15 hours, 50 minutes ago
      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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      Have you experienced any symptoms of physical sexual dysfunction as a result of having diabetes, or having diabetes-related complications?
      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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      Do you feel that your T1D healthcare provider understands the daily challenges and work that goes into living with T1D?
      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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      mojoseje likes your comment at
      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.
    • 1 day, 14 hours ago
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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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      Kristine Warmecke likes your comment at
      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.
    • 1 day, 14 hours ago
      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!
    • 1 day, 15 hours ago
      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.
    • 1 day, 15 hours ago
      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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      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?
      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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      Richard Wiener 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.
    • 2 days, 7 hours ago
      sweetcharlie likes your comment at
      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).
    • 2 days, 7 hours ago
      sweetcharlie likes your comment at
      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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    Do you currently have unexpired ketone strips (blood or urine)?

    Home > LC Polls > Do you currently have unexpired ketone strips (blood or urine)?
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    Sarah Howard

    Sarah Howard (nee Tackett) has dedicated her career to supporting the T1D community ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Marketing Manager at T1D Exchange. Sarah and her husband live in NYC with their cat Gracie. In her spare time, she enjoys doing comedy, taking dance classes, visiting art museums, and exploring different neighborhoods in NYC.

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    25 Comments

    1. mbulzomi@optonline.net

      Not my Dex G6, but I extended the G5 almost every time.

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    2. mbulzomi@optonline.net

      No

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    3. Becky Hertz

      I don’t have any keytone strips.

      12 months ago Log in to Reply
    4. LizB

      They need to make ketone strips in smaller bottles, like maybe 10, or individually wrapped. Some of us might need/want to check occasionally. If you’re not on a keto diet a bottle of 100 is overkill.

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      1. Mick Martin

        I use GlucoMen ß-Ketone Test Strips, ma’am, and they do come in a pack of 10, with each test strip being individually wrapped in foil. These work in the GlucoMen areo 2K blood Ketone meter. I hasten to add that I’m in the UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).

        I’ve just checked the A. MENARINI diagnostics website, but I’m afraid it’s only available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK. Sorry about that.

        Although on the United States website it states the above, you can take a look at what I’m talking about here: https://www.menarinidiagnostics.com/en-us/Home/Diabetes-care-products/Meters/GlucoMen-areo-2K/Features

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      2. Mick Martin

        @LizB, apologies for not looking this up earlier, ma’am, but ABBOTT Laboratories also do a blood glucose meter that can also check ketone levels. It’s called the FREESTYLE OPTIUM / PRECISION NEO, which is similar to the meter I used to use (Optium Xceed) and, I believe, these are available in the United States of America. You can check out this page: https://www.diabetescare.abbott/products.html

        The ß-Ketone Test Strips also come in packs of 10, which are individually wrapped in foil.

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    5. gary rind

      in my 19 years as a T1D, I’ve never had ketone strips.

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    6. mojoseje

      I have strips but have no idea if they’re expired or not. I have never used them.

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    7. Keli Godin

      I miss the ketone strips that were individually wrapped so you could take a few with you wherever you went. Getting the bottle now is a waste.

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    8. Vivian Moon

      Answered Other as I would have to look! I might use one every 2-3 years so it is very likely! You used to be able to buy a box of 10 maybe that were each foil wrapped that lasted a Long time. So much more practical.

      12 months ago Log in to Reply
    9. Jane Cerullo

      Have some but have actually never tested for ketones. Keep my numbers pretty tight

      12 months ago Log in to Reply
    10. Mary Dexter

      Never have figured out when or how to use them.

      12 months ago Log in to Reply
    11. Lawrence S.

      I have a plastic bottle of ketone strips with 50 strips in the bottle. I’ve used them once or twice. The expiration date on the bottle is April 20, 2021. I still would use them, if needed. I used them recently when I was taking Prednisone for 9 days. I think they should be packaged in containers of 5, not 50. I check when my blood sugar goes above 250, remains high, and I am sick.

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    12. Jeannie Hickey

      Mine are expired, but I have control solution I can use to verify they are still accurate – which they have been for 3-4-5 years. They are about 1$ per foil wrapped strip. & you need the Precision meter. Urine strips are about 7$ per 50 & should not be used 6 mos after jar opened…. Hmmm.
      Just be proactive: high sugars, feeling ill / nauseous, strongly consider you are ketotic & so MORE insulin resistant (besides the extra resistance from just being above 250). So give a bit more insulin, tell a partner / friend / diabetes team that you are sick, check sugars every 3 hours & follow your sick day plan. Throw up twice, go to the ER.

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    13. Daniel Bestvater

      I have not had ketone test strips for the last 30 years. As medical person I don’t see the need if your BG is kept below 10(180) a majority of the time, provided you have adequate insulin on board.

      12 months ago Log in to Reply
    14. kristina blake

      Yes, but they were purchased to Dx my pug. She was displaying the classic T1D symptoms, so I bought some of the old school clinitest visual strips. Yep – Dark black. Based on that, they squeezed her in for an appt. I also used a Libre to track her bg’s – charting her scanned readings as an overlay on a chart that displayed the action timing of her NpH insulin. So… to answer the question I have some should I need them for me (haven’t used them in years – like others I work to stay in very tight range) I also “borrowed” one of her Libre sensors when my Dexcom shipment was delayed.

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      1. KarenM6

        Hi Kristina –
        I’m so glad you were able to help your pug! It’s fascinating that they allow Libre sensors for pets. Do you have to shave a spot on them? And, how does it work so that the pet doesn’t try to lick it off or scratch it off? Do you have to wrap it with a bandage?
        I don’t currently have a diabetic pet, but I guess I just want to be prepared in case it happens again.
        Thank you!!

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    15. Steve Rumble

      I have not tested for ketones since I started using blood glucose test equipment in the early 80s. Used tablets back in the day when glucose was tested via urine testape!

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      1. George Lovelace

        Like Steve Rumble, haven’t done Ketones since early 80’s

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    16. Gary Taylor

      Actually, I have both the urine test strips, which expire in August 2031, and the blood strips, which also expire in August 2031.

      12 months ago Log in to Reply
    17. Sue Herflicker

      I don’t have any ketone strips! I never use them.

      12 months ago Log in to Reply
    18. Carol Meares

      I have never had a doctor prescribe ketone strips for me.

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    19. kflying1@yahoo.com

      I’ve only been DXd for about 12 years now – never had them recommended or prescribed, though it would have been useful 10 years ago when I was using blood test strips and totally ignorant about diabetes. It might have prevented my hospitalization with DKA. Now with a DEXCOM G6, my BS is very well controlled.

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    20. Bonnie Lundblom

      No, thankful that I’ve never once needed them in my 35 years as a T1D.

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    21. Ahh Life

      Ketone test strips are like nuclear missiles. They cost a gadzillion dollars and you hope you never have to use them.

      In 71 years I have only run ketones twice.

      Well, maybe they really are like nuclear missiles. ¯\_( ͡눈 ͜ʖ ͡눈)_/¯

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