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    • 9 hours, 35 minutes ago
      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      "It's a forever learning curve" - so very true
    • 9 hours, 43 minutes ago
      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      For pump users: In the past 3 months, have you had issues with insulin delivery due to a bent cannula or occlusion?
      I hesitate to bring this up but I am quite sure this happens more than people realize. I use a tubed pump and small amounts of total daily insulin and have checked the tubing for YEARS for bubbles. YES, they are difficult to "notice" unless you have a good light behind the clear tubing because the insulin is also colorless. I detach and check the tubing in the morning and before bedtime if not before the evening meal...I'm talking about significant bubbles----8-10-or12 inches in length can appear and you would NOT notice them unless you were looking. I wonder how many people wonder why their blood sugar is occasionally high and it's being caused by a significant bubble...NO, not the champagne sized version that's often mentioned to "ignore." The pump company I deal with tried to get me to switch to injections instead but I am an EXPERT with the bubble situation. Also, comments over the years that I am probably not filling the reservoir correctly, etc....just plain silly. I am NOT new at this...LOL!!!
    • 10 hours, 8 minutes ago
      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 14 hours, 44 minutes ago
      Janis Senungetuk likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 14 hours, 45 minutes ago
      Richard Wiener likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 15 hours, 5 minutes ago
      Ahh Life likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I began playing Pickleball last year in March. When the temperatures started to rise the extra effort my body was experiencing because of the heat got my body hormones out of balance and I began experiencing nausea, higher heart rates and feeling very uncomfortable. I soon realized that I cannot play when is too hot or I’ll end up with ketones. Any new activity when on. Insulin requires adjustments. It’s a forever learning curve. Adding to the heat, last year I was having some absorption problems by the overuse of my abdomen. I have now move the infusion sites to my upper front side and it’s working much better.
    • 15 hours, 5 minutes ago
      Kristine Warmecke likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 15 hours, 6 minutes ago
      Ahh Life likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I answered no, but I do experience nausea and/or vomiting, usually on a daily basis, but this is because I have gastroparesis. I have rarely been able to eat breakfast over the last 20+ years as I end up vomiting it all back up ... try explaining that to ward staff in hospital(s). ;-)
    • 15 hours, 25 minutes ago
      Becky Hertz likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 1 day, 7 hours ago
      Wanacure 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!
      After 62 years I have skin issues everywhere. I am an avid at rotating every time I change my infusion set. When I was on multiple daily injections, up to 9 per day, I had massive skin hardening. Since on the pump it’s not nearly as bad that’s been 33 years. I take very little insulin my daily basal comes out to 9 units over 24 hours I eat two meals that I count carbs for and try to keep at a minimum of 30-40 per day. Everything is going well. Rotation is key
    • 1 day, 7 hours ago
      Wanacure 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!
      I use a pump and have had issues with insulin absorbtion. It seems I have a lot of them on the side I primarily use for infusion sets. I recently switched to the other side of my abdomen and dropped more than one point on my a1c.
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
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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?
      When I first started with my current Endo we would discuss the released and upcoming products and I would tell her about the 'off-market' applications and devices, we both learned from each other. But she was so good with helping me transition to the Dexcom and then the Tandem after Animas was pulled from the Market. She followed my Dex and even finer tuned my Basals and early this year I got an "unbeleivable" 5.4 A1c and we are both extremely happy!
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
      Wanacure 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?
      Yes. But then I self-selected when choosing an endocrinology clinic that pursues cutting-edge advances 40 years ago. Cutting-edge is a phrase that is also often called bleeding-edge because it is often experimental, hit or miss on results, and very expensive. I am convinced the “bleeding” refers to $$$.
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
      Wanacure 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?
      not anymore, and I am happy about it! Most of the time they were recommending things that had been recently pitched to them by a pharmaceutical salesperson or a durable medical supplier. The doctors would give patients the "free samples" and it was often not the best fit, then after the "free" supply ran out, the prices were exorbitant. Maybe it still happens, but I haven't seen it for a while.
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      The need for better CGM accuracy is a big consideration for me. Also my control is pretty good right now (a1c in the low 6 range). Although I am tempted by the sleep and exercise modes which would be very helpful since I’m getting back in to exercise. So…I keep sitting on the fence…
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      I don’t want to change from the Omnipod Dash to Omnipod 5 because the minimum target blood glucose is level is higher than where I like to keep it. My A1C is currently 5.0.
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      For the last 5 years, the highest HbA1C I've had was 5.3. For the last 3 years the high, low, & average have been 5.2, 4.7, & 4.9. I'm not willing to go to an AID that sets a target of 6 to 7.
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      I do MDI. For the last 7 years my A1C has averaged around 4.8. I have no reason to believe that a closed loop automated system could do that well.
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      There are many reasons, as well as "something else." My arthritic fingers do not serve me well with a cell phone. I have trouble putting the needle covers back on to my insulin pen needles. If I had to take care of all the fine muscle issues associated with setting a pump up, I would probably require assistance. I am also not drawn to the issues I hear about tissue damage at the infusion sites, or knowing whether everything is seated properly and the insulin is actually flowing. Finally, I just have some kind of negative karma with electronics. I have worked as a lab biochemist. Somehow, I find the weaknesses of every machine in the lab. (the ideal industrial beta-tester) Having said that, what I hear about the numbers achieved with the tandem CIQ gives me pause to consider.
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      Like others, the "closed loop" runs me too high - even the target bg is too high for me. I use the TandemX2 with BIQ integrated wqith my Dexcom G6. I also appreciate - and use - the temp basal function often. I would lose that with CIQ. L:ike Nilla Eckstrom (I think?) I like to be between 80-90, with maybe up to 120 after I eat.
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      The constant refilling and site changes...doesn't seem worth it.
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      Luddites just may be the most comfortable people on earth. 🙃 
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      For pump users: In the past 3 months, have you had issues with insulin delivery due to a bent cannula or occlusion?
      Holy cow! 8 to 10” bubbles? There is definitely something wrong if that is happening to you. I occasionally get 1/4” inch 10” is excessive. Have you gone in and shown your pump instructor how you’re doing it so that they can help you figure out the problem?
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      Aside from the first year after your diagnosis, have you seen a registered dietitian for help managing nutrition and T1D?
      When I was put on insulin, the first dietitian I payed to see said I could eat whatever I wanted as long as I followed the set number of macros (carbs, protein, fats). The stupid diet had my blood sugars all over the map. She didn't care/listen when I told her milk, bread/pasta made me feel really sick. She said because I was on insulin I need to eat a high carb, low protein and low fat diet. What bad advice! Thankfully, I came to my senses and starting reading the experiences of other T1D's who were following the The Bernstein diet.
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      Aside from the first year after your diagnosis, have you seen a registered dietitian for help managing nutrition and T1D?
      Saw one, recently out of school, when I was first diagnosed ten years ago. She insisted I needed 150 grams of carbs per day minimum and handed me a sheet with meal plans. She explained that I needed those carbs to keep my brain functioning properly. GEEZ. I can only hope she's learned a thing or two since then.
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    Have you ever experienced other people acting fearful or otherwise negatively about you checking your BG levels or disposing of glucose strips because of the blood?

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    50 Comments

    1. ConnieT1D62

      Not that I ever noticed, so I answered No.

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    2. LizB

      Around 8 years ago at a new job I tested my BG at my desk and a co-worker (the manager, actually) said “That’s disgusting. Do that in the bathroom next time”. All I said was “No” and left it at that. He never said anything again.

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      1. Ahh Life

        👍👍👍

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    3. Britni

      A friend in high school would leave the room anytime I checked my blood sugar. My last employer asked me to check my blood sugar and take my insulin in the locker room instead of the break room. My current employer doesn’t want me to check my blood sugar at the lunch table/in our office either. There isn’t a locker room at my current workplace and we agreed the bathroom wasn’t acceptable, so the deal we made was that I can check my blood sugar at the table as long as anything with blood on it stays in my lap and doesn’t actually touch the table.

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    4. kcatalino

      I have not but I always ask before I do if anyone has any issues.

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    5. Carolann Hunt

      In high school they wanted my daughter to test in a separate room away from the cafeteria because of blood. She just tested under the table in the cafeteria and no one even knew

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    6. Kristen Clifford

      My first boss at my previous job was a bit of a nut, and she had a thing about both germs and blood. One time she caught me checking my blood sugar at my desk, which was in a completely different room from where hers was, and she told me not to do it in the office. I tried to tell her I was in another room and not disturbing anyone, and her response was, “Yeah, but the bloody tissues will still be in the trash can.” I did later hear rumors, after she’d been fired a couple years later, that she did in fact at times dig through employees’ trash for one reason or another, and my coworkers and I wouldn’t have been surprised at all if we found out she had the office bugged. She was a total piece of work.

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    7. Sheila Gilbert

      It’s something I have to do to stay healthy & alive so I don’t look around to see if someone is offended. If so it’s their problem not mine.

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    8. Danielle Eastman

      Not a level of caring I can afford to give.

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    9. Lawrence S.

      I cannot say that anyone acted fearful because of my blood testing, etc. However, I did have an embarrassing faux pas once. I signed many papers daily in my work. One time a secretary came to me and showed me blood near my signature on a piece of paper I had recently signed. It was obviously the result of my finger bleeding after a blood test. I apologized, and was more aware of checking papers after I handled them.

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      1. Sherolyn Newell

        That’s happened to me a couple times as well.

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    10. Rex Franklin

      Yes, I was told at work by management that I couldn’t test where someone to see me testing.

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    11. Nevin Bowman

      No, but if I’m around people that I don’t normally test around, I do my best to be discrete just in case.

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    12. Mary Coleman

      Not a blood issue but sometimes a negative reaction —I’ve had a Dexcom for many years now so I do finger sticks rarely but I do look at my phone often for my BG read out. If I’m with a person or people who are unfamiliar with the technology, I usually explain that I’m not texting or reading emails when I look at my phone, instead I’m checking my blood sugar. Before I explain(ed) this I sometimes get/got judged for phone usage while I am/was “supposed”to be socializing or eating or working. When people learn the real reason for me glancing at my phone, they drop the negative attitude quickly.

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    13. Bea Anderson

      No one has ever said anything to me. Concern if too high or low. But I have had embarrassment when a used test strip shows up unexpectedly!! I rarely check bg due to Dexcom sensor’s accuracy, but recently removed my sandal and there was a strip. It had fallen out of case!!

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    14. Keith LeMar

      I don’t think I would call it “fearful” but have noticed that some people look rather uncomfortably about me checking my BG in public. I do try to be very discreet about it but that’s not always possible.

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    15. Sherolyn Newell

      I try to keep the blood out of sight in public, I don’t want to cause anyone to pass out from seeing a drop of blood. I also use Dexcom, so my finger pokes are rare.

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    16. TEH

      I answere yes. About 13 years ago I had a coworker who didn’t like the sight of blood. He gave me a long story explaining why. After that I was more descreet particularly around him. Now I don’t care as much. I don’t draw attention to it but I will do it in public.

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    17. Jneticdiabetic

      I put unsure. I’ve received some sideways glances. I assume this is curiosity rather than negativity. My husband does get a bit snarky when he finds used stray strips in the house/car. Haha.

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      1. KarenM6

        Those dang strips get everywhere! …and I swear the move on their own… I find old strips in the oddest of places and I think, “where are their little legs?!” ;p

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    18. GLORIA MILLER

      About eleven years ago I had a job with Child Protection. The interviews with families would sometimes take several hours. Once I felt my glucose was getting low, so I checked my glucose (before I had a CGM). The next day I was called into the supervisor’s office who told me to never check except in private while at work. I quit shortly thereafter. I knew what they told me was illegal but I just didn’t want to fight the fight.

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    19. Sue Martin

      I had been told, “no one wants to see that” when I was checking my BG in a small office. I thought I was being inobtrusive but…

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      1. PamK

        My mother use to say that to me when we were in a restaurant! I’d look at her and ask, “Well, what would you like me to do?” Now that she has LADA, she doesn’t make that comment any more!

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    20. Anthony Harder

      Not really, it’s more a reaction of surprise or curiosity. After a short explanation, it’s a non-issue.

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    21. stillarobyn

      I’ve had people i sit with be uncomfortable with blood, so among new groups I’ll ask beforehand, and ask that they avert their eyes and let them know when it’s safe if they have a problem with it.

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    22. Janice B

      I have never had anyone even notice I was checking.

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    23. Janis Senungetuk

      Yes, before CGMs were available, I would test before eating a meal. If we were eating with my sister-in-law I knew to expect a loud negative comment from her. She has since been dx with T2, along with three other siblings in my spouse’s family, and now she takes insulin before eating. I’ve never seen her test.

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      1. Patricia Dalrymple

        This is poetic justice. Don’t wish it on anyone, but just sayin.

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    24. PamK

      I’ve encountered fear/negativity at two jobs. In both cases I was told I had to go to another room to test.

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      1. Tina Roberts

        Good God Almighty!!!

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      2. Tina Roberts

        Good grief!!! People can be so ignorant.

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    25. Bob Durstenfeld

      It has been a long time, as the switch to Dexcom G6 eliminated most of my blood sugar tests. But, on several occasions at restaurants I’ve had people tell me to go do it in the restroom.

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      1. Catherine Davis

        As a teen on MDI I realized that the public bathroom was the worst possible place to draw up insulin or any other diabetes task. I am not ashamed to take care of myself. Once in a public restroom drawing up my insulin, someone accused me of doing illegal drugs. I did it at the table from then on. No one has to watch.

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    26. kristina blake

      I had one dept head who understood when I was hired that I had T1D (didn’t know alot about it, but knew about my T1D). Anyway while walking around introducing a new asst mgr stopped by my office and at that time told me I was to do my fingersticks outside of the office, suggesting my car as the place to do it. The new asst mgr asked if all employees were to plan getting papercuts in their cars! That new asst mgr was great.

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      1. Tina Roberts

        Good grief!!

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    27. KarenM6

      Definitely have gotten looks and two times that are notable:
      I had a gentleman on a plane who I thought might actually asked to be moved.
      I had one dear, sweet co-worker who almost fainted on me when she bopped into my cubicle just as I was squeezing my finger. I was way more careful about how I positioned myself after that. (Turning a certain way my body would block the whole procedure so that no one could see.) And, she was careful, too. But, I haven’t been around new people in awhile, and I stopped noticing in any case.

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    28. Becky Hertz

      I’ve found that if I’m nonchalant about things, nobody really notices anyway.

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    29. Lynn Smith

      I had a business associate nearly faint when I was just talking about testing my blood sugar at our lunch table. This was in the early to mid 1980s. I found out that even talking about blood testing or shots, as I was to another associate at the table, was enough to cause him to sweat profusely and become dizzy.

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      1. Lawrence S.

        I’m sorry, but I find that funny. How would those people survive if they became T1D’s?

        Although, while I was at the Joslin Center in Boston, a T1D patient who was in the room with me totally passed out when the doctor gave him his first shot of insulin. They remove him from my room, so I don’t know what happened to him afterward.

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    30. Melissa Childers

      I answered “I don’t know” because I don’t pay attention. I am doing what it takes to stay alive.

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    31. Tina Roberts

      Yes, and it was ridiculous.

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    32. Patricia Dalrymple

      I am discreet in restaurants using my purse to hide it. I get that people may not want to see blood while they are eating. The only other time was I was in a doctors office and I felt myself go low. My husband was with me because we weren’t sure of the results (luckily negative). A nun had followed us in. I paid no mind to her. But my husband told me later she looked very disapprovingly at me. I work at a Jesuit college. They don’t scare me but my husband went to parochial schools back when corporal punishment was permitted, especially in catholic schools. He is scared to death of nuns. He said if looks could kill I would be dead. Haha! He loves horror films but when one came out with a nun in it, he wouldn’t watch it.

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    33. Mark Schweim

      I said I was unsure, but after giving the answer remembered a time when a more accurate answer for me would have been “Yes, but so what?”

      I never had anybody react negatively to that time but had one time shortly before the Ryan’s Buffet restaurant in Enterprise, Alabama closed when one customer not at my table raised a fuss with restaurant staff because I was “being gross and poking things into my finger and then shooting up drugs at the table.”

      I had been using an Insulin pump for over a decade by then, but that was one time when my Medtronic Insulin Pump needed replacing so I was on MDI while waiting for the replacement pump to arrive.

      It just happened that time that the person waiting my area was one of my pool business customers and she knew al about my Diabetes before the other customer complained about my “shooting up at the table” and took charge by telling those at the table that raised a fuss about me that if they didn’t want to see me taking shots before eating then they would absolutely hate to see “what happens to him if he doesn’t take that shot before eating” and then offered to let the party at the table that complained about me either move to a different area of the restaurant or leave and go elsewhere to eat, but if they did that they would get no refunds since they had gotten the buffet and had all already had at least one plate of food from the buffet before complaining about what that other “druggy customer” was doing at the table.

      That waitress waiting my area then told her manager what happened and the manager then came to my table, apologized for the actions of that other customer and insisted on giving me a whole pie to take home as compensation for what he thought the other customer had put me through, but truth was that if the one waiting my area of the restaurant hadn’t said anything about it to me, I wasn’t paying attention to others so wouldn’t have known that anybody had complained at all about my actions at the table if the restaurant staff wouldn’t have mentioned it to me.

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    34. Mick Martin

      I selected “Yes” as a person that I worked with ‘collapsed’ when she witnessed me testing my blood glucose. I learned after that not to test my blood glucose level in front of others unless I KNOW that I wouldn’t have such an effect on anyone else … and this was more than 35 years ago.

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    35. Brad Larson

      Blood glucose strips are not considered medical waste, or hazardous waste, as per California H&S Code

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    36. Molly Jones

      I chose unsure as my social skills are not good.

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    37. AnitaS

      I really don’t know for sure since I don’t look at people’s reactions, but I have always done it discreetly so people who are queazy with blood don’t faint. (I have literally fainted reading medical articles. I love medical articles but if the article gets too graphic, I have fainted. LOL. My poor mother thought I was having an insulin reaction. ) So yes, it is my duty to care about others.

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    38. Cheryl Seibert

      I have one relative that cannot watch me poke my finger! LOL! After 56 years of T1D, I have the process of meter-testing BG down to an art (on my lap under the table at a restaurant). I keep a cloth in the meter case that I use to wipe off any drops and I drop the used strip in the cloth until l get home. No strangers have acted like they noticed or it bothered them

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    39. Leona Hanson

      Sometimes they don’t understand the look is disgusted but others are curious and what I’m doing and I explain what I’m doing kids are fun some kids have different machines but where the same

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    40. Catherine Davis

      Some people thought I should dispose of them in special biohazard containers. I explained it’s a tiny amount, the same as if you blow your nose and it bleeds a little, it goes in the trash.

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