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      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, 40 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, 42 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, 34 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, 50 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, 47 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, 8 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.
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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 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.
    • 3 days, 9 hours ago
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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
    • 3 days, 11 hours ago
      Katie 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
    • 3 days, 11 hours ago
      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
    • 3 days, 12 hours ago
      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.
    • 3 days, 12 hours ago
      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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      Karen Newe likes your comment at
      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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    If you have a child with T1D (or at some point, you were a child with T1D) who goes trick-or-treating, do you use any strategies to manage insulin, blood glucose levels, and candy? Share what works for you in the comments!

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    43 Comments

    1. Ahh Life

      The strategy that worked/didn’t work was to boil the test tube and watch it turn brown. Not recommended. This is an old timer’s inside joke. 😖

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    2. Britni

      I was a child with T1D who went trick-or-treating in the 90’s. When I was little I wasn’t allowed to eat any candy while trick-or-treating (unless we suspected my blood sugar was going low). When we got home I was allowed to save my favorites and then the rest my parents counted and traded for money (I think pennies or nickels; I can’t remember). The next weekend my dad would take me to the toy store so I could buy something with the money. I assume my parents ate the candy. Af for what I’d saved, I was generally allowed one piece per day, again unless my blood sugar went low. When I got older I was allowed to keep all my candy, but was still only allowed to eat a couple pieces per day.

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    3. DiabetesC

      Increased temp basal, periodic correction boluses early as needed, encourage faster walking to help keep BG under control.

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    4. GLORIA MILLER

      I lived in a small village with only 86 people so everyone knew I was diabetic. Everyone would either give me coins, gum or fruit when I would go trick or treating as a young child in the late 1950s.

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    5. Jana Venditte

      Don’t stop living; check blood glucose throughout the day and night. Correct the highs as needed.

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    6. Vivian Moon

      I did not have T1D as a child.

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    7. Nevin Bowman

      I never ate candy as a kid, and today I’m extremely thankful my parents never allowed me to.

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    8. Greg Felton

      I didn’t eat the candy. I don’t think that counts as a strategy.

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    9. Beckett Nelson

      As a kid, I would trade some of my sugary treats for my sister’s trident gum. The treats left over would be eaten in moderation, so no crazy spikes

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    10. Richard Vaughn

      I was diagnosed in 1945. There were no strategies back then because there were no guidelines for controlling blood sugar. Take your pig insulin and don’t eat sugar. Those were the only rules I had to follow.

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    11. mojoseje

      I went Trick-or-Treating but had to give all my candy to my brothers and sisters. It was terrible.

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      1. Bill Williams

        Same for me. I stopped going.

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      2. AnitaS

        Sorry you had to give all of your candy away. My parents weren’t that strict so I never really felt deprived.

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    12. Debra Nance

      As a chid I out to keep Al chips, apples an oranges. We didn’t count carbs in 1063 but calories. I also got a piece of candy. My neighbors who knew I was a diabetic gave me sugar free candy or gum.

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    13. HMW

      I had diabetes as a child, and it has been over 20 years since I have gone trick-or-treating so the protocols were very different then. I would eat a fairly large dinner before going out. Our half-way point was a relative’s house 3 blocks away where I could have a snack if I felt my BG was dropping (no cgm, no checking glucose–yes, it was pretty inaccurate). My mom would offer to pay me for about half of my candy (5 cents a piece) to lessen the temptations. Then I was allowed 1 or 2 pieces as a treat after dinner daily, taking into account the Exchanges counting technique I used back then (instead of carb counting, I was supposed to eat a predetermined amount from certain food groups each meal, plus up to 5 “extras” = sugary things, diet soda pop, etc, while having the same amount of insulin twice daily).

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    14. Kathryn Keller

      My daughter usually actually runs low during trick-or-treating from all the running around. We let her keep all the candy that she can as she also has celiac disease but only let her have a few pieces that night and just bolus for them as needed. Then they generally have one piece a day with a meal till they run out.

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    15. Joan Benedetto

      My son goes low as he walks as much as three miles with his dad and friends. He eats a piece or two of fast acting, then, later a piece of chocolate. After he has fun sorting all the rest, most is donated to a dentist who sends to the troops. We keep some of the small fast acting pieces for occasional use for lows. Small chocolate bars, kisses, are good for stabilizing a ↘️. Peppermint Pattie’s are diced up and used on top of chocolate almond flour muffins (Simple Mills) which makes a nice “frosting “. Side note: just found candy from last Halloween, Valentines Day and Easter!

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    16. Joan Fray

      Got it when i was 12. Trick or treated that year, then stopped. Did I eat the candy? No memory…..

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    17. Aimee Martin

      Feed a low carb dinner right before, and we trade out traditional candy for low carb alternatives when he gets back. If he gets low during trick or treating, he can eat certain candies he got!

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    18. Melissa Childers

      As a child with T1D, I did not like how candy made me feel, so I kept lifesavers, skittles and jolly ranchers as low treatmentsvand my parents and I worked out a “buy back” program for the rest.

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    19. GiGi

      I was diagnosed when I was ten years old in 1972. All we had during my childhood was urine testing. It didn’t give an exact number to give correction boluses, and we didn’t have the technology to carb count, so for me, I did what my Dr advised and ate the candy during the day when I was active. I wasn’t put on a restricted diet because my Dr felt it would lead to rebellion and feelings of resentment towards my T1D, and my family.

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    20. Lisa Vaas

      As others have mentioned, there really wasn’t much of anything in the way of strategies to manage glucose before the past few decades. When I was diagnosed in 1965 at the age of 3, there was only urine testing, which was a feeble alternative to try to discern blood glucose levels. My mother was never strict with my diet, but I wasn’t allowed to drink sugary soft drinks. I remember eating quite a bit of candy growing up, and Halloween was similar to the highest of holy holidays in my world view. Lord knows what I would do now with a child during Halloween: Probably try to ration it a bit, at the very least. Parents of T1Ds, you have my sympathy. Good luck getting through the sugar bacchanalia!

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    21. Janis Senungetuk

      Halloween was my favorite holiday because of the costumes/makeup I could design. I was 8 when dx in 1955 and allowed to go with neighborhood kids but couldn’t accept or eat any of the candy offered. My treat bag filled with pennies, nickels, apples and gum. By the next Halloween I had experienced a year + filled with “no you can’t do that because of your diabetes” and decided not to go. Thinking back all of those years the memory still stings. It was definitely not a good solution.

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    22. Marla Peaslee

      We gave legos in exchange for candy collected. Sugar free candy and gum are what our sweet neighbors gave our child. Also allowing a pick of one or two candies and adjusted insulin as needed.

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    23. Becky Hertz

      Oops, I answered no, but was 14 when diagnosed so part trick-or-treating.

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    24. Bruce Schnitzler

      I was diagnosed at 6 years of age, in 1951, lived in a rural area, and simply did not go trick-or-treating.

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    25. Pauline M Reynolds

      Oops, answered other. Should have been I have no children with nor myself have T1 as a child. Over the years, though, I have given out individual packets of pretzels and pencils rather than candy. My problem was staying away from my children’s stash of chocolate!

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    26. cynthia jaworski

      Halloween was more than candy. I loved the costumes and the fun we had running around at night. I was dx in 1962 at the age of 10, so there were few reliable tools. I ate a bit of candy, bu I was very choosy. Most of it was given away to a children’s center.

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    27. Henry Renn

      I’m 71 but when I was a child my Dad would give me cash for my candy. I think he was generous to lessen the hurt of trick or treating for candy which I couldn’t eat. I would keep peanuts & any little boxes of pretzels.

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    28. Liz Johnson

      When our son came home after trick or treating we sorted the candy into pieces he could use to treat lows, those he could work into his meal plan and those that were problematic. We would buy the candy that was problematic and mete out the rest appropriately. He liked getting the money. In school also when he answered a question and won a treat he would auction it off to his classmates.

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      1. Kristine Warmecke

        I like the auctioning off of his treats won in school. Wish I’d have thought of that.

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    29. ConnieT1D62

      I went trick or treating as a child with T1D in the 1960s. Neighborhood kids got dressed up in homemade Halloween costumes, with or without character masks, and my younger brother and I went out as part of the gang. When I got home my mom would go through the trick or treat bag and allow me to keep the little boxes of raisins, bags of Fritos or chips, apples, peanuts, and popcorn that were given out. All the candy treats I collected were distributed to my brother and other kids in the neighborhood and I was given $5.00 for giving my candy away.

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      1. AnitaS

        It is sort of funny how many people even today think that raisins will raise your blood sugar less than candy (although I do consider them more healthful than candy). People offered me raisins too. Nowadays I use raisins to raise my blood sugar in case of hypoglycemia.

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    30. Kristine Warmecke

      There was no blood glucose testing when I was young to go treat or treating. Our parent’s allowed us chose the candy we wanted to keep for low’s and they bought the rest from us. My Dad then took it to work to share. We also had neighbors that made homemade treats to hand out, got to love living in a very small town in the 70’s, who make special ones for us.

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    31. AnitaS

      I had diabetes as a child but that was in the 1970’s. Only urine testing then, so what my blood sugar numbers were is just a presumption. I tried staying away from pixie sticks and candies that are basically pure sugar, but I know I did eat a few pieces of chocolate now and then.

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    32. Jeff Perzan

      Two Strategies: 1. Give daughter ‘option’ of 1 or 2 pieces/day (make candy last, give decision-making ability and accountability, and forcing prioritization of options); and 2. purchasing candy from daughter – especially helpful for culling out stuff she didn’t like AND having her evaluate on a ‘business case’ basis priorities, saving, and long-term approach.

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    33. Jeff Balbirnie

      Never learned to like candy, so it was not relevant for me.

      I traded my candy to my siblings for cards, games stickers and stamps. They were old games (: z

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    34. Teri Morris

      As a child my mom drove me to the neighbours who had saved me an apple 🍎

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    35. Amy Schneider

      When I was a child with T1D (40+ years ago), the neighbors all bought sugar-free candies for me.

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    36. T1D4LongTime

      T1D since 1966 so majority of my childhood meant not eating a lot of the candy I was given trick-or-treating. I saved all the candy for when I had ‘insulin reactions’ (was we called them back in the day). Back in my childhood, I took one shot in the morning and had no clue what my current BG was, so no strategies other than lots of exercise so my urine sample wasn’t the dreaded bright orange 4+

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    37. KarenM6

      When I was a kid, I trick-or-treated, but the candy was taken away and given to me piece-meal (one or two per day.)

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    38. Mary Ann Sayers

      I loved dressing up for Halloween and trick or treating as a child, but I didn’t eat the candy. One house gave me apples, so I didn’t feel different.

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    39. brettsmith115

      I was a lucky kid back in the 80s/90s. I used to bring a pillowcase full of candy home and trade it in with my parents for toys. It was way better, and more fun, than just a bunch of candy.

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