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If you had T1D before attending college, did the quality of a university’s healthcare facilities and their services for people with T1D factor into your decision of which school to attend?
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I enrolled in college in 1969. Nobody running a college infirmary in those days knew much of anything about treating a”juvenile” diabetes.
The college I ended up at was chosen because they had no idea how many T1Ds attended, as opposed to the one I was supposed to attend which required T1Ds to go to their infirmary 2x/day to get my shot. I’d been giving my own shots since I was 6. This all occurred in 1973.
I went to nursing school in 1974 – there were no services for people with T1D at that time. I was the only one. I know our school nurse got me to the ER for severe hypoglycemia after an alcohol consumption event the night before. The normal insulins in use were NPH and Regular.
I was one of 6 T1D’s when I began in 1988.
I was 48 when I was diagnosed LADA, decades after college.
Whether one attended college should not be lumped in with when one was diagnosed.
No, I attended nursing school located at hospital. Dorm was at the hospital, also.
Honestly, in the 3 years I went I never used their healthcare facilities. Honestly, not sure I even knew where it was located on campus. I brought my stuff with me and tested and took insulin for meals with me. It’s better and so much easier to deal with stuff on the fly.
I was diagnosed at age 19 while already in school. My mother called the school while I was in the hospital to find out what they offered and the answer was basically nothing.
I had T1D before college, I did not consider the student health facilities prior to admission, but the quality of care at UCLA was great.
I chose the college I went to based on the academic program I wanted, not the healthcare facilities. I did talk to the college about getting bedtime snacks and was directed to the cafeteria staff. I had to have a note from my endo stating what I needed and they provided food for me to snack on.
I never went to the heathcare facilities for anything other than a fever or infection. I found an endo near the campus who I saw for my regular checkups when I couldn’t get home.
Went to college in 1978, I don’t think there were any T1D services offered at either university I went to.
No. In 1964 there was still urine testing and beef/pork insulin. I chose the school because of the quality of education offered.
The Tech School and the College I went to had no services for diabetes care. I went to whatever schools that were close to my apartment. Back then it was solely up to me and my PCP to keep up with my diabetes healthcare.
As far as I’m aware, the uni I attended had no facilities to support attendees that had diabetes. I’m not sure that they even had a nurse on the premises. Having said that, on one occasion when I was not well, I was given the opportunity to lie down on a couch in the Staff Room. On another occasion, when I’d lost consciousness, I ‘came round’ in the back of an ambulance that was transporting me to hospital.
I was a freshman in college when diagnosed. We had a nurses office that was open a couple of hours a day. I walked a few blocks to the local hospital to see a physician. It was OK but this was the mid 70’s with urine strips and NPH pork/beef insulin. I survived.
I was diagnosed with T1D in the mid-’60’s. I went to college in 1976. There was no such thing as services for people with T1D. I figured it out on my own, by myself.
In 1948, no school had such facilities for students with diabetes.
I went to both undergrad and grad school in the 70s, but at different institutions. Neither one had a health service that had any idea how to deal with a Type 1 diabetic. Grad school was at a university that had a large training hospital and I was finally able to talk my way into getting a referral to an endocrinologist. Even then, this was before home glucose monitoring, and control was pretty crude, consisting of multiple injections and HA1c testing.
The University I attended had almost no health care for any students; the only (part time) doctor was rumored to diagnose everything as either mono or ovarian cysts (including one woman’s pregnancy) and gave me a drug for bronchitis that caused me to hallucinate. I don’t think there was even a nurse in the clinic. I did not know any of this before I attended, but I also don’t recall medical care being readily available at any of the schools I applied to, so I had lined up an endocrinologist off campus on whom I relied both for my diabetes and for more general primary care if/as needed.
No one but my friends ever even knew I had diabetes. My college experience was way before there were any special considerations given. I assume any of us long timers had the same non experience with that.
No. In 1971 I chose to go to a university with a great theatre and dance department after high school because that’s what I wanted to study back then. My choice of college had nothing to do with diabetes.
When you are limited in the numbers os grad schools you can attend, it’s not a factor. Became T1 between undergrad and grad.