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      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      same here. I was able to get a neurologist to diagnose it as that.
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      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I have developed this very weird numbness and pain in my left outer thigh which I attribute to neuropathy, although there has been no official diagnosis. Of course, like every good diabetic, I did my own research and found that it is called meralgia paresthetica. It only comes on intermittently and rarely interferes with daily functions. Rest remedies it. Having lived with T1D for 56 years so far, I consider myself to be pretty lucky...so far.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I feel the same way. I'm never sure who to believe or how to get a valid assessment.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I’ve been T1D for 60 years. There have been slight indications of neuropathy for a number of years. However it is not severe. Whenever I go to orthopedics, I try to stop at endocrinology first and get an accurate assessment of my current neuropathy. Whenever a non-endocrinologist doctor reads I’m T1D every problem I’m having is caused by T1D. Then the root, non-diabetic, issue is never addressed.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      Gastroparesis
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      In late summer of 2017 I lost all feeling in both lower extremities to my hips and both upper extremities to my shoulders. It was not all diabetic related though. Lowered the drug in my chemo regimen but didn't reverse by next treatment, so that drug was stopped. Slowly I regained feeling in my arms and legs; left with no sensation in hands & feet up to ankles & wrist. I'm thankful that my oncologist realized that it wasn't just a diabetic thing.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I’ve been T1D for 60 years. There have been slight indications of neuropathy for a number of years. However it is not severe. Whenever I go to orthopedics, I try to stop at endocrinology first and get an accurate assessment of my current neuropathy. Whenever a non-endocrinologist doctor reads I’m T1D every problem I’m having is caused by T1D. Then the root, non-diabetic, issue is never addressed.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I’ve been T1D for 60 years. There have been slight indications of neuropathy for a number of years. However it is not severe. Whenever I go to orthopedics, I try to stop at endocrinology first and get an accurate assessment of my current neuropathy. Whenever a non-endocrinologist doctor reads I’m T1D every problem I’m having is caused by T1D. Then the root, non-diabetic, issue is never addressed.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      My feet were killing me when I started taking insulin. Saw on another website that alpha lipoic acid (ALA) was good for neuropathy. Once I started taking it, the pain was gone within a week! Still using it 20 years later, still pain free
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I’ve been T1D for 60 years. There have been slight indications of neuropathy for a number of years. However it is not severe. Whenever I go to orthopedics, I try to stop at endocrinology first and get an accurate assessment of my current neuropathy. Whenever a non-endocrinologist doctor reads I’m T1D every problem I’m having is caused by T1D. Then the root, non-diabetic, issue is never addressed.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I’ve been T1D for 60 years. There have been slight indications of neuropathy for a number of years. However it is not severe. Whenever I go to orthopedics, I try to stop at endocrinology first and get an accurate assessment of my current neuropathy. Whenever a non-endocrinologist doctor reads I’m T1D every problem I’m having is caused by T1D. Then the root, non-diabetic, issue is never addressed.
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      Mike S likes your comment at
      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I’ve been T1D for 60 years. There have been slight indications of neuropathy for a number of years. However it is not severe. Whenever I go to orthopedics, I try to stop at endocrinology first and get an accurate assessment of my current neuropathy. Whenever a non-endocrinologist doctor reads I’m T1D every problem I’m having is caused by T1D. Then the root, non-diabetic, issue is never addressed.
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      Do you live with diabetes-related neuropathy?
      I’ve been T1D for 60 years. There have been slight indications of neuropathy for a number of years. However it is not severe. Whenever I go to orthopedics, I try to stop at endocrinology first and get an accurate assessment of my current neuropathy. Whenever a non-endocrinologist doctor reads I’m T1D every problem I’m having is caused by T1D. Then the root, non-diabetic, issue is never addressed.
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      What types of exercise do you participate in regularly? Select all that apply.
      I spend a bit of time in my garden, yardwork , the animal shelter. Days I'm not with the Shelter my herd gets walked.
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      What types of exercise do you participate in regularly? Select all that apply.
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      What types of exercise do you participate in regularly? Select all that apply.
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      What types of exercise do you participate in regularly? Select all that apply.
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      Steven Gill likes your comment at
      What types of exercise do you participate in regularly? Select all that apply.
      Try pausing insulin on your pump if you are below 150mg/dl.
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      What types of exercise do you participate in regularly? Select all that apply.
      Really struggle with bouncing blood sugars and so I don’t exercise. I know this is a bad thing but really end up with so much bouncing hard to figure it out.
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    If you had T1D while you were in school, were your blood sugars typically impacted when you had tests or exams?

    Home > LC Polls > If you had T1D while you were in school, were your blood sugars typically impacted when you had tests or exams?
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    23 Comments

    1. Larry Martin

      There were no CGMs back in the 60s so I had no clue.

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    2. Tod Herman

      Similar to Larry’s comment, when I was in highschool and college I had no way to monitor my blood sugars regularly.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    3. Jana Foley

      I went back to school at age 62 to get my associates degree and did not notice that tests had any affects on my blood sugar either way, high or low.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    4. Kristine Warmecke

      Mine would be high as I waited to take the test, but they could bottom out during test, especially finials. Wish I could have had a pump back then, instead of just my R and N regimen.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    5. Bill Williams

      I finished grad school in 1977. I got my first glucometer in about 1985. Any questions?

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    6. Philip Vachon

      I did not have a glucometer in high school or college. Based on my current results, I would say most likely yes.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    7. Gary Taylor

      I answered “other”. Like many commenters, I was diagnosed before the availability of glucometer, much less sensors. I had no way of knowing what happened during tests.

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    8. Abigail Elias

      I’m joining the other old timers. My last exam was the bar exam in 1976 when we still were limited to urine dip strips – so could not track highs and lows very well my senior year in high school, in college or in law school. I overslept my last law school exam my first year either because I’d been studying until 2:30am or – in hindsight – because I slipped into a pre-dawn low and didn’t hear my alarm. (Jumped into my cleanest dirty jeans and ran to the exam without breakfast, insulin or a shower … )

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    9. Janice Bianchi-Lurati

      I was diagnosed in 1960 and graduated high school in 1967. I had no idea what my blood sugars were in real time, as meters did not exist until 10 plus years into the future.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    10. Sarah Berry

      I was diagnosed in 1972. No blood sugar testing or A1C back then.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    11. George Hamilton

      I had T1D when I was in school, but that was long before we had any way to check BG personally. I had to get BG tests at a lab. I never considered whether my BG might be high or low during a school exam unless it was extremely high or low (hypoglycemia etc.).

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    12. Becky Hertz

      Old timer here too. Nuff said.

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    13. Janis Senungetuk

      I could answer both high and low from exam stress. As others have commented personal glucose meters were still a dream when I was in high school, ’60 – ’64 and undergrad studies ’65-’70. Later in graduate school, ’76-’80, still without personal meters, I had a low while taking my Masters written exam. Fortunately, I completed enough of the essay questions to pass. The oral defense of my Master of Fine Arts thesis was very stressful. I ‘m sure both my glucose and blood pressure levels were high.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    14. Amy Nance

      In the 80s and first few years of the 1990s, wasn’t able to test before or after an exam, so I’m sure my blood sugars were all over the place…

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    15. Keira Thurheimer

      This tech wasn’t available when I was in school, but I rarely felt stressed in school so I doubt it would have had any effect on my blood sugars.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    16. Mary Ann Sayers

      When I was in school I didn’t have a glucose meter!!! It hadn’t been invented yet!!!

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    17. Ken Raiche

      Back in those days I really didn’t do much monitoring it was all done through the urine which wasn’t exactly accurate.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    18. ConnieT1D62

      As a child, adolescent, and in early college years – IDK. There were no meters or cgms back then – only urine tests and my pee was usually mucky olive green or mucky bright orange.
      During first phase of nursing school in the 1980s I would get stressed during exam time and BGs would run higher. Was on MDI and a BG meter in those days.
      Later on in graduate school as an older middle aged adult I did get stressed while writing term papers and researching material for Masters in Nursing Science thesis. My BGs could/would run higher but it may have also been from lack of sleep. I was working full-time AND going to school online, plus doing hands-on diabetes care and education in clinical settings with an academic advisor.

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    19. Sally Numrich

      No blood testing when I was in school, so who knows.

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    20. Christina Trudo

      Other: during my school and college years the only available glucose testing was for urine. It was notoriously unreliable, so i don’t know the answer to this.

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    21. Germaine Sarda

      My answer is the same as many here, no way to check blood sugars back then. I think if I had a CGM and pump my studies would have been better. I liked school but depression became a part of my life around 10. I suspect it was from the roller coaster we were all on in those days.

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    22. Jeff Perzan

      When I was in HS, urine tests were ‘state of the art’ for T1D. No ability to know what was going on prior (or during) tests.

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    23. Robby Doyle

      My comment is very similar to many others. I was diagnosed in the early 70’s. Urine testing was the norm.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply

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