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      Amanda Barras likes your comment at
      If you or your spouse live with T1D and are thinking about having a baby, how concerned are you about them carrying T1D autoantibodies?
      I had two healthy pregnancies. The only issues were low blood sugars and my babies being born early other than that they are 38 and 35 years old, healthy children.
    • 14 hours, 54 minutes ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I use them all. I use an app when I’m eating out. I use labels when at home. If not on the app I estimate.
    • 14 hours, 54 minutes ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      If there is a label, I always read it. I can estimate pretty well, too, after 40 years. It helps to eat similar foods daily. Not computer savvy enough to use an app. It seems a lot of work..
    • 14 hours, 54 minutes ago
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I generally do a very rough guess of carbs and correct if needed by adding more insulin for an also rough guess for effect of fat and protein later. My alert is set at 130 to remind me so I don’t get too high. I watch arrows a lot. I have had individual sensors lately that are not accurate. This can throw me off, where the sensor reading will be going up fast at say 180 and I will test my blood and it is 130. Sometimes I will have already corrected for the 180. This can cause a very rough day having to feed the insulin. I am hoping sensors will continue to get more accurate. So much depends on it especially with the algorithm. I usually don’t wait for my algorithm to correct because it will let my bg get too high. I know I’m supposed to let the algorithm do its thing but my goals are more strict. I am on G7 and Omnipod 5. I would like to be able to set my target at 100.
    • 14 hours, 55 minutes ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I should have clicked the fourth option. I use the labels if available. If not, I estimate.
    • 15 hours, 18 minutes ago
      atr likes your comment at
      If you or your spouse live with T1D and are thinking about having a baby, how concerned are you about them carrying T1D autoantibodies?
      We knew the risk was 50%. My wife miscarried 4x. We ended up with three great sons, only 1 has T1D. His eldest daughter (of 2) also has T1D.
    • 15 hours, 19 minutes ago
      atr likes your comment at
      If you or your spouse live with T1D and are thinking about having a baby, how concerned are you about them carrying T1D autoantibodies?
      47 years ago i had my pregnancies and didnt hear about her carrying T1D antibodies but i did have concerns about my child having diabetes. When she was about 12 there was a study to see her chance of developing diabetes ,this blood test was negative. 2 of my grandchildren have been tested and were negative . At the time of my pregnancies i had diabetes for 10 years
    • 15 hours, 20 minutes ago
      atr likes your comment at
      If you or your spouse live with T1D and are thinking about having a baby, how concerned are you about them carrying T1D autoantibodies?
      If you have T1D, there is an 80% chance that no one else in your family has or will have it. If someone else in my family had it, I'd be much more concerned about passing it on than I am knowing that I am the one and only.
    • 1 day, 4 hours ago
      Watertail likes your comment at
      When people talk about diabetes, are there trigger words that bother you? Please share what they are in the comments.
      oh and this one...... when I see a new doctor they say... "let's get some blood work to see if you have diabetes" and I ask them... did you even read my intake forms that say I have had T1 D for over 40 years? ughhhhhh
    • 1 day, 4 hours ago
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I use the nutrition labels as a starting point. For home made foods or for restaurant meals, my wife who was a nutritionist, helps come up with a carb estimate. Then there are times that I just have to take a wild ass guess. I have collected a list of over a hundred common foods that I eat and I keep that keep that list in a notes app on my phone right next to my T-slim app. I often check the nutrition labels for things on my list to see if the recommended carb levels for that item have changed. Then I adjust my list as needed. I also check my BG response to listed carbs I eat. I have adjusted some items over time. So, I would call this approach a hybrid. As Daniel Bestvater notes above, we are only controlling one item out of 6. Your mileage may vary.
    • 1 day, 4 hours ago
      Watertail likes your comment at
      When people talk about diabetes, are there trigger words that bother you? Please share what they are in the comments.
      Not really trigger words as much as not understanding or even aware of the difference between Type 1 and Type 2.
    • 1 day, 4 hours ago
      Watertail likes your comment at
      When people talk about diabetes, are there trigger words that bother you? Please share what they are in the comments.
      And it's especially frustrating when HCP's ask about "checking your sugars? Be a professional dammit, ask about my "blood glucose"
    • 1 day, 4 hours ago
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I count carbs, acc. To Mabel if I have, look up nutrition for items, and estimate if needed. Used to always cook myself till this yr, now in apt where food is provided, so now looking up a lot to estimate. Going pretty well
    • 1 day, 4 hours ago
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      Years ago I used to calculate out carbs with a scale & book. Then I realized it didn’t seem to make a huge difference. I had many discussions with an endocrinologist friend about this topic and we both found that highly accurate carb counting didn’t seem to make much difference. As long as you are in the ballpark. I think we need to realize the pancreas produces at least 6 BG regulator hormones and we are only injecting one, insulin. So we need to do our best but not stress over it. This is at least why 2 identical meals can result in two different BG levels.
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      It depends on the situation. At home I calculate carbohydrate with my scale. At restaurants it depends on if they have nutritional information available. If they don't have it, I estimate. The same with eating with other people's houses even while using my scale.
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      If I have a label I use it. Mostly I guesstimate then use the info the next time I eat the same meal. I am a big eater with no weight problem. When I go out, usually 2-3 times per week, I have to put in 90 grams of carbs, then add if not enough because I will go low before I go high. The other times, when eating at home, I eat less. Exercise is key. I just got back from 3 trips in 6 weeks. To Sicily, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and to visit family in Baltimore. Only in Baltimore did I have issues with BG, because I wasn’t walking as much, although I did walk 1.5 miles most days. A1C when got home was 6.3. Time in range about 75%, down from usual 85%. I’ll take that. Not traveling for another year probably and will get back on track.
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      When you bolus for a meal, do you usually estimate carbs, use an app, or the nutrition label? Please share your habits in the comments.
      I should have clicked the fourth option. I use the labels if available. If not, I estimate.
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      Years ago I used to calculate out carbs with a scale & book. Then I realized it didn’t seem to make a huge difference. I had many discussions with an endocrinologist friend about this topic and we both found that highly accurate carb counting didn’t seem to make much difference. As long as you are in the ballpark. I think we need to realize the pancreas produces at least 6 BG regulator hormones and we are only injecting one, insulin. So we need to do our best but not stress over it. This is at least why 2 identical meals can result in two different BG levels.
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      Years ago I used to calculate out carbs with a scale & book. Then I realized it didn’t seem to make a huge difference. I had many discussions with an endocrinologist friend about this topic and we both found that highly accurate carb counting didn’t seem to make much difference. As long as you are in the ballpark. I think we need to realize the pancreas produces at least 6 BG regulator hormones and we are only injecting one, insulin. So we need to do our best but not stress over it. This is at least why 2 identical meals can result in two different BG levels.
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      Years ago I used to calculate out carbs with a scale & book. Then I realized it didn’t seem to make a huge difference. I had many discussions with an endocrinologist friend about this topic and we both found that highly accurate carb counting didn’t seem to make much difference. As long as you are in the ballpark. I think we need to realize the pancreas produces at least 6 BG regulator hormones and we are only injecting one, insulin. So we need to do our best but not stress over it. This is at least why 2 identical meals can result in two different BG levels.
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      Years ago I used to calculate out carbs with a scale & book. Then I realized it didn’t seem to make a huge difference. I had many discussions with an endocrinologist friend about this topic and we both found that highly accurate carb counting didn’t seem to make much difference. As long as you are in the ballpark. I think we need to realize the pancreas produces at least 6 BG regulator hormones and we are only injecting one, insulin. So we need to do our best but not stress over it. This is at least why 2 identical meals can result in two different BG levels.
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    When you were diagnosed with diabetes, did you go through a “Honeymoon” phase? If so, for how long did it last?

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    26 Comments

    1. Leona Hanson

      I went through a 2year honeymoon phase it ended when I had emergency surgery and then everything went crazy brittle diabetic fun every day

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    2. Steven Gill

      I was originally diagnosed TYPE 2 (understandable, I ate and drank anything available), 3 years later after losing 105 lbs the diagnosis was changed to TYPE 1. Had the antibodies, the doc at the medical studies suggested had the test for GAD autoantibodies been done several years earlier I might have extended the “honeymoon” period even longer with only a BASAL dose. For me 3 years although the last several months the “quack” I fired kept saying I was too old to require insulin: kept changing pills and said to lose more weight (eventually 20lbs under weight).

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    3. HMW

      I was diagnosed at age 7. I went through honeymoon phases (where I would only need 1 shot of nph once a day) off and on. I particularly remember having one at diabetes summer camp at age 9 (over a year after diagnosis) because of how active we were there and how much I could snack vs at home.

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    4. Anthony Harder

      I was diagnosed with T1D in 1965 when I was 7 years old. My doctors quickly settled on T1D and insulin injections which I have been taking ever since.

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    5. connie ker

      My diabetes was not diagnosed when I presented with a frozen shoulder, no energy and kept losing weight. My diabetic husband suggested he test me on his meter and it read HIGH. So a call to his endo meant insulin dosages over the telephone and an office appointment forthcoming. Even though I was 49, I could not get off of insulin and my body was frail. That was 23 years ago before the term LADA. Thankful for insulin which is turning 100 years in 2021, marketed in 2022. Happy 100th Birthday Insulin!!

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    6. Joan Fray

      You think I remember 59 years ago? Ha ha ha, that’s hilarious!

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    7. Lorri McLuckie

      I’m not sure that “Honeymoon Phase” was known about in 1967 when I was diagnosed. I was only 10 at the time and don’t remember that term being used or any changes to my treatment protocol being implemented to reflect that.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    8. Ernie Richmann

      What is a honeymoon phase?

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    9. Annie Wall

      I had to look up honeymoon phase diabetes. Here’s what I found: “The “honeymoon period” is a phase that some people with type 1 diabetes experience shortly after being diagnosed. During this time, a person with diabetes seems to get better and may only need minimal amounts of insulin. Some people even experience normal or near-normal blood sugar levels without taking insulin.” I definitely never had a honeymoon phase when I was diagnosed T1D at age 32.

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    10. William Bennett

      Dx’d 1983, age 28. My Dr warned me about the honeymoon phase, but I think what happened was that I retained some endogenous insulin production that never quite completely went away. I seem to still produce some, which makes DKA less likely, though it can make figuring dosage a little unpredictable.

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    11. Steven Jerdee

      My dad told me I got really sick taking insulin. So they stopped for a week and everything was good. It lasted a week. Then I got sick again and I have been on insulin ever since. That was 1967

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    12. George Lovelace

      57 years ago I remember times where the NPH would ‘surprise’ me with lows, I assume that was “Honeymoon” but don’t remember when that levelled off. DX was easy because my father had been a LADA Dmer since the early 40’s,, my Dx in 65

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    13. Amanda Barras

      I was barely 4 when dx so I too young to remember.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    14. Sally Numrich

      I said, no idea. Who knows, it was one injection of Lente and urine testing. So really, who knows! I know there was lots of highs and lots of lows.

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    15. Nicholas Argento

      Like others, I don’t know, but it is not that I could not remember, more that in 1968, you really could not tell because there were no A1c’s, or fingersticks. Evidence from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, which was the first prospective randomized large scale trial to prove that tight control improved the chance of avoiding complications, also showed that those newly diagnosed who were well controlled (average A1c 7-7.2) had detectable insulin secretion for twice as long as those who were in standard control (A1c around 9 on average). So high blood sugar hurts remaining beta cells, and tight control helps from day 1 after diagnosis…

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    16. kristina blake

      My D symptoms came on fast and furious. I may have been my “honeymoon” period prior to Dx and thus not been aware of it. I was a professional ballet dancer in the years leading up to my Dx and that hard physical labor (it is hard labor – we just make it look easy and ethereal). I was Dx’d with T2 cuz I was 30 years old (no risk factors especially the one re: my family tree – no D of any kind back several generations. Family had lots of medical folks – so the records were meticulous). When I first went to see a doctor I had gone from my “working weight” of 110 lbs (I am 5’6′) to 102. By the time was correctly Dx’d – in DKA I was 95 lbs.

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    17. Abraham Remson

      I guess as they said I controlled too fast and went blind for a couple of weeks. Let me tell you, it was a a lot of fun . I could see some shadow like figures during the day but at night I was totally blind the honeymoon was over real fast if in fact it actually happened

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    18. Ken Raiche

      Unfortunately I’m not to sure how long mine lasted. That said becoming a diabetic was never ever a big issue for me due to my older having had it for 7 years prior to my sudden onset. Admittedly things seemed to be much easier way back when due to the lack of instruments for testing, single dosing etc. Now days we’ve got all these different tools that are available like CGM’s, pumps, or MDI, Inhaled etc…. Admittedly these things are great, yet at times can be a tad bit hectic and a constant reminder of our disease which for me can encourage depressive state.

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    19. Carol Meares

      I don’t remember anything significant about honeymoon. Because I was an adult I was not put on insulin for quite some time. I was on metformin for T2. When they accepted metformin wouldn’t help, they put me on insulin about 6-12 months after dx. I was still scrawny but was never extreme to where I ended up in the hospital. I think there are some differences between LADA and Juvenile T1D. Both autoimmune but different in its presentation in my perspective. My young 1St cousins once removed with T1D ended up in the hospital with very quick presentation, my sister and I with LADA had more stretched out presentation in the beginning. I didn’t know of the word “honeymoon” at the time.

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    20. ConnieT1D62

      I have no idea. I was diagnosed in December 1962 at the age of 8. They weren’t tracking residual beta cell function back in those days, so even if I was in a honeymoon phase it wasn’t on the radar, so no one paid attention to it. I do remember that I had a lot of severe insulin reactions up until age 10 or 11 – often resulting in middle of the night/overnight seizures. Perhaps I was going through a honeymoon phase then?

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    21. KarenM6

      I did, but I was about 5 when it happened. I remember the doctors telling my Mom to continue to give me a small amount (~1 unit) of insulin so that I didn’t become allergic to it if she stopped giving any insulin.

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    22. Donna Condi

      I was. 42 when diagnosed T2 and put on pills. Four years later and 60 pounds lighter I asked to go on insulin because I couldn’t keep my bs numbers down with the pills, exercise and eating like a bird.

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    23. Cub Scout

      I didn’t go through a honeymoon phase til my last pump, 670G & CGM. A1c improved 2 points. Improved control, less worry, and more freedom eating.

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    24. Anita Galliher

      I was diagnosed at age 14 in 1963. I was in shock and hated every minute of it. Peeing in a cup or on a stick was worthless. My A1C was 12 for a while, and only took one injection a day until I was in my 40s. Finally when I was about 50 I went on the Omnipod and turned things around. I still hate it and struggle every day, but I keep trying. And that’s all I can do until a cure is found.

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    25. kilupx

      I had a high a1c in a routine blood test when I was 66. Internist told me I had type 2. Metformin made me sick and I told doctor I would follow a strict low carb diet. Then I found an endocrinologist on my own and he immediately diagnosed me with LADA. Probably because of ingesting fewer than 80 grams of carbs a day, I was able to prolong honeymoon phase to 1 1/2 years. Then I started on a couple of units of long-acting insulin a night and didn’t add Humalog until a year after that. Five and a half years from diagnosis, I still take what I’m told are smaller than normal doses of insulin—4 units of Tresiba daily and a total of 7 units of Humalog a day.

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    26. Cheryl Seibert

      I was diagnosed just over 54 years ago, so don’t recall any ‘honeymoon’ phase. At age 6, I came home just before Christmas and went back to being a kid. I don’t recall any anger, adjustment period or anything like that. Just seems like it was “ok you have to take shots and don’t eat many cookies”. At age 6, I had more bad memories of and trouble adjusting to having tonsillitis every winter. I guess diabetes diagnosis didn’t impact me much at that age.

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