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    • 7 hours, 51 minutes ago
      ConnieT1D62 likes your comment at
      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      I usually bolus for breakfast right at the time I start eating. But I prefer to bolus 15 minutes before. Better results. But I always forget.
    • 9 hours, 47 minutes ago
      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      I said 15-30, but it may have been more than 30. I wasn't watching the clock this morning. I just checked my pump bolus history. It was about 30 minutes. I need to bolus early in the morning because my blood sugars shoot up high after breakfast. Bolusing sooner seems to help keep my BG from going off the charts. But, if I bolus too soon, I have serious low BG's. It's all an art ... and luck.
    • 9 hours, 49 minutes ago
      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      I am able to pr bolus for Breakfast and dinner as I am at home. I never know when I am going to eat at work so bolus is at start of meal.
    • 12 hours, 41 minutes ago
      Mick Martin likes your comment at
      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      Question is misleading until type of insulin is understood. I said 15 because I use Fiasp insulin.
    • 12 hours, 57 minutes ago
      Kris Sykes-David likes your comment at
      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      I said 15-30, but it may have been more than 30. I wasn't watching the clock this morning. I just checked my pump bolus history. It was about 30 minutes. I need to bolus early in the morning because my blood sugars shoot up high after breakfast. Bolusing sooner seems to help keep my BG from going off the charts. But, if I bolus too soon, I have serious low BG's. It's all an art ... and luck.
    • 13 hours, 53 minutes ago
      Ernie Richmann likes your comment at
      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      I said 15-30, but it may have been more than 30. I wasn't watching the clock this morning. I just checked my pump bolus history. It was about 30 minutes. I need to bolus early in the morning because my blood sugars shoot up high after breakfast. Bolusing sooner seems to help keep my BG from going off the charts. But, if I bolus too soon, I have serious low BG's. It's all an art ... and luck.
    • 14 hours, 15 minutes ago
      Robin Melen likes your comment at
      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      My most recent meal was breakfast and, during the work week, I am far better at bolusing ahead of time. The rest of my meals in the day though end up receiving the bolus as I start eating or part at the start and more later on (depending on what I am eating and whether I know how much I'll eat.)
    • 1 day, 9 hours ago
      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      Of the people in your life, who (if anyone) makes you feel judged or criticized for your T1D management (for example, what foods you eat, where or when you check your blood glucose, etc.)? Select all that apply to you.
      Insulin, meters, diabetic tech are not magic wands. Its usage does not guarantee only "positive" results. Negative events can and do occur, period. Non -D- typically (incorrectly) equate negative events as being total user failure, severe user errors. As diabetics we get blamed, despite having made zero mistakes on our part. We make seriously educated best guesses, despite that truth, we can and do fail anyway sometimes! Outsiders falsely need to believe inulin, our tech are complete-total cures, rather than tiny bandages at best. When confronted for using (sic. my) "drugs" in public, no matter how invisibly done... it is their self righteousness , poor assessment which is the issue. I gladly squash such insects...
    • 1 day, 14 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you use an insulin pump that comes with a clip, how often do you have your pump clip attached to your pump?
      The more important question is 'how well does the clip work'. For me, the Medtronic clip worked very well, but the Tandem clip is quite ineffective and the pump falls off my belt during things like yard work or other bending movements.
    • 1 day, 14 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you use an insulin pump that comes with a clip, how often do you have your pump clip attached to your pump?
      I answered never. I always use a clip -- I wear my t:slim x2 on my belt -- but not the Tandem clip. I use the black t:Holster Rotating Belt Clip. Very pleased.
    • 1 day, 14 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you use an insulin pump that comes with a clip, how often do you have your pump clip attached to your pump?
      I am rough on pumps and use a Tandem X2 but dont use the Tandem clip/holster. I use a neoprene case and a pouch with a metal clip. Thenmetal clip is uncomfortable while I sleep. Looking for a different solution for wearing my pump at night.
    • 2 days, 10 hours ago
      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I answered that nobody wants to be screened, but I was answering based on my immediate family. I did let my deceased type-1 diabetic cousin's 35 year old son know he can be tested for his likelihood of becoming type-1 diabetic. He said he may be tested as he was always curious if he had a chance.
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      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I have T1, and when my oldest grandson got T1, the other 3 grandkids got screened. The grandson who's the brother of the one with T1, showed a strong possibility of being a future T1 diabetic. It sadly came true about a year later.
    • 2 days, 11 hours ago
      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I have LADA, and the idea of screening has not come up, either by me or my adult children. I guess I need to present the opportunity to them so they can make the decision.
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      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Samantha Walsh likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I was born in 1939 and had many childhood illnesses. Three different kinds of measles and tonsils removed before I was 5 years old, then mumps and chickenpox when I was 5. While recovering from the mumps and chickenpox, I began showing the symptoms of very high blood sugar. Three doctors examined me and they were not able to make a diagnosis. I had lost much weight, and I had stopped eating. I did not have an appetite. It was almost impossible for me to walk. A fourth doctor had my blood tested and he made the diagnosis. While receiving pork insulin I finally began to recover a few days after my sixth birthday. I did not have ant relatives with diabetes. I think the childhood diseases caused internal damage and that was the cause of my diabetes. At the present time there are still no type one diabetics among my relatives. I do not believe it is necessary for my children and grandchildren to be screened for T1D autoantibodies.
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      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Kate Kuhn likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Karen DeVeaux likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I was born in 1939 and had many childhood illnesses. Three different kinds of measles and tonsils removed before I was 5 years old, then mumps and chickenpox when I was 5. While recovering from the mumps and chickenpox, I began showing the symptoms of very high blood sugar. Three doctors examined me and they were not able to make a diagnosis. I had lost much weight, and I had stopped eating. I did not have an appetite. It was almost impossible for me to walk. A fourth doctor had my blood tested and he made the diagnosis. While receiving pork insulin I finally began to recover a few days after my sixth birthday. I did not have ant relatives with diabetes. I think the childhood diseases caused internal damage and that was the cause of my diabetes. At the present time there are still no type one diabetics among my relatives. I do not believe it is necessary for my children and grandchildren to be screened for T1D autoantibodies.
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      Kelly-Dayne likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      William Bennett likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Have you ever participated in a charity fundraising event that benefitted a diabetes organization (i.e., a walk, marathon, gala, etc.)?
      I have led a team for the JDRF OneWalk annually since the late 1990's. We have been able to raise a lot of funds for JDRF...and I have enjoyed doing it. Good cause!
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      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      my siblings & parents are older (like me) and they've never expressed any interest in getting tested. my nieces and nephews have never said anything either
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      Have you ever participated in a charity fundraising event that benefitted a diabetes organization (i.e., a walk, marathon, gala, etc.)?
      I participated in several ADA walks not long after being Dx with T1D. As Ahh Life points out large $ are rased, but where do they go? I stopped supporting ADA for that reason. I think JDF is much more open on where the funding goes.
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    Have you ever used glucagon? If so, when is the last time used it?

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    46 Comments

    1. ConnieT1D62

      Yes, over the 60 years with T1D I have used glucagon several times during the course of my life when needed to treat a severe low. Although it happens rarely these days, Baqsimi is a welcome antidote for severe hypoglycemia and I keep it on hand with me or nearby at all times … in my purse, at bedside, and a drawer at work … just in case. I can use it on myself and have instructed others who I spend time with how to use if I am incapacitated by a severe low.

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      1. ELYSSE HELLER

        What is Baqsimi? Never heard of it, I will gave to Google it. I have taught my roommate plenty of times on how to inject glucagon if needed. He just calls 911. One time when I said to my roommate why didn’t you give me the Glucagon he replied ” I thought I only inject that if you are high”. UUGH!

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    2. Jennifer Bounds

      In the mid ’90s my mother was instructed to mix the vial and put it a small medicine cup for me to drink bc I was semi conscious.

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    3. Joan McGinnis

      I almost used it once but it was before CGM.
      I had it open and was just about to draw it up
      I had gotten some kind of virus (GI) and hd taken my insulin for dinner feeling fine but then couldn’t eat.
      Finally I tried some chocolate milk which brought it up to 50 and i started feeling decent. thought i would pass out but i didn’t.

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    4. Liz Avery

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      Used and kept it as a child. As an adult, the product was expensive and would expire prior to use, so at some point I stopped filling the prescription. Juice boxes and glucose tabs along with more info through my pump/CGM seem to be the best for me.

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      1. Karen Taylor

        I understand. I never had it available until I moved to a new State and had to get a new endocrinologist. His ordered it for me and I have filled it twice but never used it. I probably won’t renew it ever again because it is costly and I have never had to use it

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    5. Joan Benedetto

      I answered “other” as “Yes” or “No” didn’t seem quite right. Our son is 10.5, diagnosed at 18mos. We have used Glucagon many times during illnesses for mini rescue dosing, but have never used it for emergency treatment.

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    6. MARIE

      We had the Rx filled initially but never had to use it. As soon as Baqsimi became available, we asked for a Rx for that instead. We’ve never had to use that either but a couple of times, when my husband went seriously low, I kept it close just in case. Supposedly, I’ll just rip off the rapper, shove it up his nose, and press the plunger – A lot easier (and less intimidating to share with friends) than glucagon mixing and injecting.

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    7. Danele Smith

      My 16 year old daughter used it for the first time a couple weeks ago. BG in 40’s… and it was a day that she just couldn’t keep BG up. She was tired of all the juice so she took glucagon. Baqsimi was on hand. Worked, but still took about 30 minutes and only brought her up to 150 range. Had just learned You don’t have to be in an emergency to use glucagon. Thankful for options.

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    8. Gerald Oefelein

      Have it but never needed to use it.

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    9. KCR

      A year ago Christmas, I started going low and treated with glucose tabs. But I stayed low and also became very nauseous and lethargic so I asked my husband to inject a microdose of Gvoke. Worked great!

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    10. Lawrence S.

      I had glucagon by my bedside for decades and never used it. Every few years I would get a new prescription for glucagon. My wife was uncomfortable with mixing the vials and giving me a shot.
      Now we have the Gvoke Hypo Pen. It does not require mixing. In the past to months, I went through a period of extreme highs and low blood glucoses, I think from an infection. I also had two before meal lows, from not eating soon enough after taking insulin. In any case, my wife has used four Gvoke pens on me over a two month period. It works very quickly and does not give me high blood glucoses after use. I told my Endocrinologist that my wife has found a new toy 🙂

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    11. Andrew Stewart

      I’ve only ever used Baqsimi (nasal powdered glucagon) once when I had to do fasting lab work and my lab appointment wasn’t until 10 am. My BG was too low to last the three hours until my lab work was done.

      Baqsimi for the win.
      #BeWell

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    12. AnitaS

      I never had to use my Baqsimi but I had it close by the first time I used Afrezza. I took Afrezza when my sugar reached 250. I very rarely ever get that high. My sugar plummeted down to forty and I wasn’t sure when the Afrezza would quit bringing my sugar down. In the meantime, I just kept eating glucose tabs in an order to halt the falling blood sugar. Physically I felt fine but I was getting nervous thinking that I may all of a sudden pass out without any physical warning sign that I might. Thankfully my sugar started rising. I have only used Afrezza one other time and started giving myself extra glucose pills as soon as my sugar got down to about 100. That way I brought my sugar down to a safe level without the need for Baqsimi.

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    13. Jim Cobbe

      I said no, because I’ve never used it myself. It may have been used on me by others a time or two in the past, before my wife died and I had to start living alone. Now I have a box of Baqsmi by my bed and a couple of nearby trusted persons who follow my Dexcom and can get in the house if I appear low according to it and don’t answer my phone. I don’t experience hypos I can’t handle myself during the day.

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    14. Patricia Dalrymple

      Told this story before to apologize for repeat but an injection came in handy when I needed surgery and miscalculated basal because of fasting. I find fasting very difficult as a diabetic. I needed to be 140 at surgery and I woke up in the 50s. I called my doctor at 5:30am to ask him what I should do. He said leave for hospital immediately. My husband was the one who suggested glucagon God love him. I was exactly 140 at surgery.

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    15. Henry Renn

      Could be slightly longer.

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    16. Kevin McCue

      I have used the nasal glucagon as a rescue before. Works as advertised bringing my sugar level up into a non diabetic range and level. Not sure if I self administered it wrong but it was quite a jolt using it as it hit hard yanking me to my senses abruptly. Not sure if I’ll ever use it again but now I now what to expect.

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    17. GLORIA MILLER

      Others have administered glucagon to me many years ago. I have used Baqsimi since it became available since it is much easier to use. I think I have needed it three times before getting the Omnipod 5 and Dexcom.

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    18. Daniel Bestvater

      I used a glucagon injection on myself 10-15 years ago. I had a flu bug and couldn’t keep any food down. When I hit ~2(36) I injected myself and my blood glucose came up into the 6’s(100’s).

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    19. Mick Martin

      I have never used Glucagon on myself, but it has been administered to me several times within the last year … by my wife, by emergency ambulance operatives, and during hospital appointments when I’ve ‘clapped out’.

      We’ve had prescriptions for Glucagon kept in our fridge for at least 25+ years now.

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    20. Carl Robertson

      I have done multiple glucagon challenge tests in the context of a clinical trial. Never used it as a low BG rescue treatment.

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    21. Merry Woolsey

      I was on U-500 insulin and had terrible lows 18-30’s! Finally saw a new Endo and am on a better treatment regimen. Toujeo max and Afrezza. The lowest I’ve had was 55! Much better!

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    22. Steven Gill

      Living alone never had the ability. But when Mother lived here came to with the EMT and an IV in my arm, similar maybe? Came to on the floor, figure if I could crawl to the the refrigerator I could crawl to the coke strategically placed (under the bed, under the workbench, bottom shelf in the hall…). Now with a CGM not much a hazard.

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    23. Wanacure

      I have never used it but it may have been used on me by Fire Dept EMTs a couple of times in distant past. How else to explain the fast recovery from passing out in a public space? But nowadays EMTS use a tube of Insta Glucose, a dextrose/dextrin/maltose oral syrup. Though it’s only 24 grams (96 calories) it seems very slow to act and raises bg way too high. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, I didn’t even know glucagon existed. Probably could not have afforded an ongoing supply.

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    24. Sue Herflicker

      I used glucose on my boys when they were younger, 20 some years ago. I have never used it on myself. Let’s keep it that way!! 🙂

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    25. Greg Felton

      Trick question (and a misworded one, missing the word “you.”) I have never administered it to myself or another. But it was used on me 15 or so years ago, and I hope the glucagon-free streak continues.

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    26. Bob Durstenfeld

      Thankfully, I have been hypo aware and never needed to use glucagon, in 66 years with T1D, even though at a doctor’s insistence, I have filled a prescription a few times.

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    27. Ernie Richmann

      Have it but never used it. There was one time it would have been useful but my wife just called 911.

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    28. Amanda Barras

      Started using an insulin pump and stopped needing a glucagon shot. I think I had poor response to long-acting insulin.

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    29. Jeff Balbirnie

      Severely , Entirely negative experience using it! I would genuinely and earnestly prefer to have died rather than have that used again. The vomiting and nausea, the migraine, etc. etc. etc. I had never had before or since from any danger low. Glucagon was the cause.. The New inhaled stuff may be better, even so. No thanks…..

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    30. Janis Senungetuk

      No, in 67 yrs. have never needed it. Before CGM use several sips from a can of reg. Coke would prevent severe lows. I stopped filling Rx for glucagon because it was expensive and expired rather quickly.

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    31. Ahh Life

      Just as at the end of all Shakespearean tragedies, the stage is covered in blood and littered with bodies, the diabetic stage is cluttered with used cartridges, mixing vials, baqsimi and other detritus in disarray.

      Thank heavens the modern technologies compelling huge increases in time-in-range do result in much, much less of a littered landscape and of a less littered life in a myriad of ways.

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    32. Sandra Norman

      I have had to use glucagon several times over the past 55 years, in my teens and early 20’s administered by others when having a seizure. It was always horrible afterwards vomiting, headaches for hours. A couple of years ago I self used Baqsimi when I was on a hike and was not responding to glucose tabs so used it- it worked quickly to raise by BG but was extremely painful immediately felt like shooting a fire cracker up my nose, extreme nasal pain and headache, for the rest of the day and night. I would never voluntarily use it again, now have a Gvoke but hopefully will never have to use.

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      1. ConnieT1D62

        In my personal experience with Baqsimi, the nasal stinging dissipates after a few minutes with no lingering aftereffects. The gem is that Baqsimi works so quickly and effectively w/o nausea or a headache afterwards.

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    33. KarenM6

      All the times I used Baqsimi were pre surgeries and I had to fast for a full day and a bit. Even though I decreased my basal rate, I still ended up going super low. I have (so far?) given the glucagon to myself. The 27 years ago when paramedics were last at my house, they may have given me a glucagon, but I kinda don’t think they did.
      I am lucky in that the Baqsimi did not make me nauseous… got headaches (I don’t believe they would be considered migraines), but otherwise it was quite the welcome life-saver!

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    34. Melinda Lipe

      Glucagon was given to me as a child at the hospital. I’ve never used it on myself.

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    35. Jan Masty

      I have never personally used it but believe it was given to me at a rehab facility I was in because the nurse refused to check my blood sugar when I asked her to. ( I was not in any shape to do so myself).

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    36. Jeffrey Joseph

      Only two uses in 21 years, but with the advent of GLP-1 injectable therapies for weight loss, most recently Ozempic and now Mounjaro, I have needed glucagon at least three times at the beginning of therapy because juice was not raising my sugar. This was because my stomach was full, and or with n/v, and glucagon became the only quick solution. Most recent refill btw is an auto-injector prefilled pen rather than the reconstitution kit. And 23 lbs lighter no longer with n/v on Mounjaro, no vomiting and glucagon needed in months.

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    37. Jneticdiabetic

      In my first five years with T1D (late 1990s), I was on regular and NPH insulin injections and had frequent severe lows (usually overnight). My sweet mom revived me with glucagon injections ~4 times/year in those days when I didn’t wake up in the morning. The overnight lows resolved when I switched to an insulin pump. I required only 1-2 glucagon injections in my the 20 years since, over 7 years ago. The new and improved CGMs have helped.

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    38. Becky Hertz

      No, #thankful.

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    39. Mig Vascos

      I’ve never used glucagon during my 50 Years on insulin.

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    40. George Lovelace

      Almost 59 years and Never a Glucagon Shot. Paramedics have done D-50 though

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    41. Mary Ann Sayers

      I believe the EMTs used glucagon on me when my FIRST pump MALFUNCTIONED giving me at midnight 4.8 units/hr instead of .8 unit/hr!!! When I was admitted, my bg was 11 !!! It was a miracle I didn’t die! That was April 19th, 2001.
      The answer is no, I personally haven’t used any glucagon.

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    42. PamK

      It’s been over a year since I needed to use it, but I still keep some on hand just in case!

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    43. JuJuB

      53 years with T1D – never used glucagon; never hospitalized beyond diagnosis. Most recent A1c registered as “non-diabetic.” Until my first pregnancy (age 34; 30+ years with T1D), I just considered myself lucky. Now I consider myself a hard worker (because I am). It’s amazing what some effort and change in mindset can produce.

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