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      jamesmpii likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      How many people does this have to happen to before they must test everyone to be sure?!
    • 7 hours, 25 minutes ago
      Kristi Warmecke likes your comment at
      Have your insurance deductibles and/or premiums increased in 2026?
      I said “slightly” because the premium went up $20 per month. But the electronic payment charges went up $20 too. I use a credit card in order to get the miles which add up to more than a flight over the year. Basically, I’m financing a plane ticket by paying my insurance premium.
    • 9 hours, 42 minutes ago
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      Have your insurance deductibles and/or premiums increased in 2026?
      The Eli Lilly coupon program: https://insulins.lilly.com/lilly-insulin-value-program or the Nordisk coupon program: https://www.novocare.com/diabetes/help-with-costs/help-with-insulin-costs/myinsulinrx.html might help. It has for me.
    • 1 day, 10 hours ago
      Patricia Dalrymple likes your comment at
      Does dietary protein affect your glucose levels?
      Try the "Atkins" diet or some other no-carb diet (e.g., Paleo minus fruits and staches) for a few days. This will allow you to measure your insulin demands based solely on non-carbohydrates (fats and proteins). Ultimately, your glucose can be affected by all three*, but eliminating one macro group at a time will let you assess how much each affects your bg levels.
    • 1 day, 10 hours ago
      Patricia Dalrymple likes your comment at
      Does dietary protein affect your glucose levels?
      Patricia, if you're willing to isolate your diet to a single protein for a few days you'll most likely know. It doesn't work for everyone. It did for me.
    • 1 day, 10 hours ago
      Patricia Dalrymple likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      A dietician diagnosed me as Type 1. My doctor sent me to her because I was struggling to get my glucose levels down while being treated for Type 2. By the time I met her, I had dropped from 155 to 115 over the course of a few months. She took one look at me and told my doctor to order more tests. I was on insulin about a week later. She likely saved me from DKA and may have saved my life.
    • 1 day, 14 hours ago
      TEH likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      A dietician diagnosed me as Type 1. My doctor sent me to her because I was struggling to get my glucose levels down while being treated for Type 2. By the time I met her, I had dropped from 155 to 115 over the course of a few months. She took one look at me and told my doctor to order more tests. I was on insulin about a week later. She likely saved me from DKA and may have saved my life.
    • 1 day, 14 hours ago
      TEH likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      Once. She wanted me to go to a group class and I told her I had very specific questions. After we talked, she agreed that I didn’t need to go, that I could probably teach the class. My problem isn’t with nutrition but we having the willpower to deny myself what everyone else is eating (or at least in smaller portions). Most times I am successful.
    • 1 day, 23 hours ago
      Sandra Rosborough likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      It was a worthless meeting. They had no idea about how carbs raise blood sugar!!! I’ve found few Endo offices that understand type 1!
    • 2 days, 10 hours ago
      Bob Durstenfeld likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      Once. She wanted me to go to a group class and I told her I had very specific questions. After we talked, she agreed that I didn’t need to go, that I could probably teach the class. My problem isn’t with nutrition but we having the willpower to deny myself what everyone else is eating (or at least in smaller portions). Most times I am successful.
    • 2 days, 12 hours ago
      lis be likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      My absolutely favorite meeting with a dietician is when a guy came up from Miami to lecture our local diabetic group. His advice? He said, to wit, "You probably shouldn't drink alcohol, but if you must, then try and make it dry champagne."
    • 2 days, 12 hours ago
      lis be likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      When I was diagnosed, I was simply given a diet to follow. Period. I followed it for awhile, but then I moved to the UK, and the recommended diet was different, so I used that. When I finally went onto separate injections for each meal, I made my own diet. I have been eating whole grains since about a year before my diagnosis, and have never been a fan of sugary foods. I'm glad I never had to meet with a dietician: it would have been a waste of time.
    • 2 days, 12 hours ago
      KSannie likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      Once. She wanted me to go to a group class and I told her I had very specific questions. After we talked, she agreed that I didn’t need to go, that I could probably teach the class. My problem isn’t with nutrition but we having the willpower to deny myself what everyone else is eating (or at least in smaller portions). Most times I am successful.
    • 2 days, 12 hours ago
      KSannie likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      It was a worthless meeting. They had no idea about how carbs raise blood sugar!!! I’ve found few Endo offices that understand type 1!
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      To what extent will the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans influence your eating habits?
      Pretty sure most of us type 1's have spent a ton of time and research developing personal guidelines for our bodies and insulin response. Trial, error, start again. test. Thinking about the high carb pyramid they gave me in the hospital when first diagnosed in 1980... and my youth not understanding why i had so many sugar swings. Food guidance from the government has always seemed driven by lobbyists and politicians...
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      To what extent will the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans influence your eating habits?
      Not at all. I'm 86 and what got me here is what I'm still doing. Also, I have heart disease and will not increase my use of beef fat or butter.
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      To what extent will the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans influence your eating habits?
      Amanda Barras -- The marketplace of ideas, almost as much of a cul de sac as the tribal alleys of true believers, there are plenty of shortcomings to keto and Bernstein diets. Google almost any "Critcism of X diet" and a plethora of articles will appear. Same goes for all the current protein-push policies that are in vogue.
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      To what extent will the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans influence your eating habits?
      While I appreciate the pyramid needed some adjustment, going to a meat and fat pushing diet (my perception) is just as bad. Plus I don’t trust people that ignore the science and common sense needed just because they happen to be currently in charge.
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      Does dietary protein affect your glucose levels?
      Said I’m not sure. I mostly have some protein with every meal. How would I know for sure that protein is the impact and not some other of the 100s of factors that affect BG?
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      Once when 1st diagnosed
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      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      A dietician diagnosed me as Type 1. My doctor sent me to her because I was struggling to get my glucose levels down while being treated for Type 2. By the time I met her, I had dropped from 155 to 115 over the course of a few months. She took one look at me and told my doctor to order more tests. I was on insulin about a week later. She likely saved me from DKA and may have saved my life.
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Ahh Life likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      A dietician diagnosed me as Type 1. My doctor sent me to her because I was struggling to get my glucose levels down while being treated for Type 2. By the time I met her, I had dropped from 155 to 115 over the course of a few months. She took one look at me and told my doctor to order more tests. I was on insulin about a week later. She likely saved me from DKA and may have saved my life.
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      When I was younger I used to see a dietitian with every T1D appointment, but that was like 20-30 years ago
    • 2 days, 13 hours ago
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      Have you ever met with a dietitian to support your diabetes management plan?
      One appointment shortly after I was diagnosed but none since then.
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      lis be likes your comment at
      Does dietary protein affect your glucose levels?
      So, I ordinarily would answer "never" to this question. I can go on a no carb diet for days and need no bolus insulin whatsoever (I still must take a basal dose). For example, I can eat eggs, bacon, and other "breakfast" meats for breakfast, I can eat a cheeseburger (lettuce wrap bun) for lunch and even eat a 16oz steak for dinner and not need a single unit of bolus insulin. That said, protein drinks and protein bars are a different story. Even a small amount of carbs mixed in (say about 6-8g) will drive my glucose up slightly. Because this increase is significantly larger than the carbs would induce alone, obviously, the protein does cause some increase.
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    Which of the following best describes your connection to the diabetes community? Select all that apply!

    Home > LC Polls > Which of the following best describes your connection to the diabetes community? Select all that apply!
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    Sarah Howard
    Sarah Howard has worked in the diabetes research field ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Marketing Manager at T1D Exchange.

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    17 Comments

    1. Ahh Life

      I have lived 7-1/2 decades and only known T1D as a way of life. I was elected to this community by unanimous vote before I could even vote or even read or write. Thank you all. (👍 ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)👍

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      1. Joan Fray

        I love your knowledgeable comments! Hope you don’t have too many complications….

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      2. Ahh Life

        PDR, PDN in lower legs, gastroparesis. Goes with the territory. Or the office. Maybe I should hang the awards on the wall. Wadda ya think?

        4 years ago Log in to Reply
    2. Gary Taylor

      I’ve had T1D for 45 years and a daughter with T1D for the last 12 years.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    3. LizB

      I’ve had Type 1 for 34 years, plus one sister who was diagnosed later in life around 10 years ago.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    4. Patricia Kilwein

      Diagnosed as an adult. Both parents diabetics. Mom T2D, dad T1D. All 5 of my siblings are either diabetes or pre now. Some nieces are diabetics as well. My 2 adult sons are not.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
      1. Joan Fray

        Boy, that’s alot of diabetes in you family. Do you talk about it a lot?

        4 years ago Log in to Reply
    5. Joan Fray

      I’m lalmost 72 and got T1d in 1962. April 2022 will be my 60th Anniversary. Woo hoo! I’ll have a party and serve only champagne and serve roasted chicken salad, gluten free crackers. (Celiac too), veggies and fruit and cheese for dessert.

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      1. cynthia jaworski

        I would like an invitation to your celebration. I am 2 years younger than you, but we started this lifestyle in the same year. Your menu sounds perfect.

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      2. Christina Trudo

        Congrats! I will also celebrate 60 years “diaversary” in 2022 (July)[

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      3. ConnieT1D62

        I will celebrate my 60 year “diaversary” in 2022. Congratulations to all of us long haulers!!!

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      4. n6jax@scinternet.net

        And I will be 90 with 69 years T1D.. I want to join the party also!!

        4 years ago Log in to Reply
    6. maria prel

      I have surgical diabetes, after surgery for a neuroendocrine tumor in the pancreas.

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    7. Brett Jorgensen

      I had sudden onset T1D at 68. Because it also happened to my mom when she was 58, I knew what it was and ignored the er doctors who said I had type 2 .

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    8. Sharon Lillibridge

      type 1

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    9. Pauline M Reynolds

      I (age 46) and my nephew (age 11) were diagnosed within three months of each other in 1987!

      4 years ago Log in to Reply
    10. bckdjv

      Son with Type 1 and also am a primary care physician

      4 years ago Log in to Reply

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