How much have you spent (deductible, copay, out-of-pocket) on your diabetes supplies in the past three months?

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- 14 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
  Amanda Barras likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  Never. I have severe hypoglycemic unawareness. No symptoms even at glucose levels of 40.
- 14 hours, 19 minutes ago
  
  Amanda Barras likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  Nope. Love my technology! Having it frees up so much mental bandwidth that I would otherwise have to spend on finger sticks, calculating insulin doses, figuring how much insulin on board, etc. Also, I love not carrying a purse with all that "stuff" everywhere I go - I put my license & credit card in my phone case and I'm hands-free. Absolute magic!
- 14 hours, 19 minutes ago
  
  Amanda Barras likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  Vacation? Sounds like a bad idea, to me.
- 14 hours, 19 minutes ago
  
  Amanda Barras likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  Being on a pump and CGM is not something I would want to be without no matter what. The only way I would ever consider it being a vacation a life long vacation is if I was cured of T1D.
- 14 hours, 20 minutes ago
  
  Amanda Barras likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  What's the alternative? MDI? No thanks. That did not work well for me when I was Dx-ed 35 years ago. I have kept my old 770 Medtronic pump and some resivors & infusion sets to fall back on.
- 14 hours, 21 minutes ago
  
  Amanda Barras likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  Only when the pump or sensor fails & I'm not with the next replacement. Not really a vacation. (I've had them fail on vacation, too.)
- 14 hours, 21 minutes ago
  
  Amanda Barras likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  as soon as T1D "takes a vacation", then I will too! ;)
- 15 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
  Mike S likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  It really depends on where I bottom out. 62 might take 15 minutes. 48 might take several hours. I’ve switched my low treatment from juice to Glow Gummies and my recoveries are both faster and more precise.
- 18 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  TEH likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  It varies significantly I can become hypo instead of hyper due to being sick at times.
- 18 hours, 29 minutes ago
  
  KSannie likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  For me, to become functional again after a hypo, it takes about a half an hour. But to fully recover, meaning that I feel like it hadn't happened, is now more than hour. Getting older has definitely expanded those timelines.
- 18 hours, 29 minutes ago
  
  KSannie likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  The older I get the longer it takes to recover. Luckily, I don’t have many lows now that I’m on a pump/CGM closed loop system.
- 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
  lis be likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  Only when the pump or sensor fails & I'm not with the next replacement. Not really a vacation. (I've had them fail on vacation, too.)
- 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
  lis be likes your comment at
  How often do you take a “vacation” from wearable diabetes technology (insulin pump, CGM)?
  as soon as T1D "takes a vacation", then I will too! ;)
- 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
  atr likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  For me, to become functional again after a hypo, it takes about a half an hour. But to fully recover, meaning that I feel like it hadn't happened, is now more than hour. Getting older has definitely expanded those timelines.
- 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
  
  lis be likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  A really sticky low means it takes longer than usual for me to recover.
- 19 hours, 19 minutes ago
  
  lis be likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  For me, to become functional again after a hypo, it takes about a half an hour. But to fully recover, meaning that I feel like it hadn't happened, is now more than hour. Getting older has definitely expanded those timelines.
- 19 hours, 19 minutes ago
  
  lis be likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  The older I get the longer it takes to recover. Luckily, I don’t have many lows now that I’m on a pump/CGM closed loop system.
- 19 hours, 19 minutes ago
  
  atr likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  The older I get the longer it takes to recover. Luckily, I don’t have many lows now that I’m on a pump/CGM closed loop system.
- 19 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  A really sticky low means it takes longer than usual for me to recover.
- 19 hours, 26 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  For me, to become functional again after a hypo, it takes about a half an hour. But to fully recover, meaning that I feel like it hadn't happened, is now more than hour. Getting older has definitely expanded those timelines.
- 19 hours, 26 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  The older I get the longer it takes to recover. Luckily, I don’t have many lows now that I’m on a pump/CGM closed loop system.
- 19 hours, 26 minutes ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  It varies significantly I can become hypo instead of hyper due to being sick at times.
- 19 hours, 43 minutes ago
  
  KCR likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  For me, to become functional again after a hypo, it takes about a half an hour. But to fully recover, meaning that I feel like it hadn't happened, is now more than hour. Getting older has definitely expanded those timelines.
- 19 hours, 43 minutes ago
  
  KCR likes your comment at
  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  The older I get the longer it takes to recover. Luckily, I don’t have many lows now that I’m on a pump/CGM closed loop system.
- 20 hours, 7 minutes ago
  
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  On average, how long does it take you to recover from a low glucose episode?
  For me, to become functional again after a hypo, it takes about a half an hour. But to fully recover, meaning that I feel like it hadn't happened, is now more than hour. Getting older has definitely expanded those timelines.
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If you drive, do you keep a low snack in your vehicle?

Samantha Walsh

Samantha Walsh has lived with type 1 diabetes for over five years since 2017. After her T1D diagnosis, she was eager to give back to the diabetes community. She is the Community and Partner Manager for T1D Exchange and helps to manage the Online Community and recruit for the T1D Exchange Registry. Prior to T1D Exchange, Samantha fundraised at Joslin Diabetes Center. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelors degree in sociology and early childhood education.

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mbulzomi@optonline.net

I chose “0”. Nothing out of pocket.

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Mick Martin

I chose $0 though it could quite easily have been Other as I live in the UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) where ALL of my diabetes-related supplies are paid for by our NHS (National Health System), which is funded via direct taxation of all working people that earn above a certain amount.

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