Douglas Holt

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- 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Holly Middleton likes your comment at
  In what year were you (or your loved one) diagnosed with T1D?
  Watching tv with my siblings my sister turned to me and said” that’s what you have” Next day refusing to go to school , I was at the dr by 9:00 AM by 10:00 AM I was in the hospital with T1D this was December 1962 My tenth birthday Talk about the gift that keeps on giving.. easy to remember my anniversary though.
- 1 year, 1 month ago
  
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  In what year were you (or your loved one) diagnosed with T1D?
  Watching tv with my siblings my sister turned to me and said” that’s what you have” Next day refusing to go to school , I was at the dr by 9:00 AM by 10:00 AM I was in the hospital with T1D this was December 1962 My tenth birthday Talk about the gift that keeps on giving.. easy to remember my anniversary though.
- 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  Aaron ardonthorn5 has commented in the same post you commented in :
  5 Years with Type 1 Diabetes: Lessons I’ve Learned
  40 years T1D this month. Keep on learning. There are so many more resources now.
- 1 year, 4 months ago
  
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  5 Years with Type 1 Diabetes: Lessons I’ve Learned
  60 years withT1D yesterday 12/04. After a while you will learn that really you’re just living a healthier life style than the average American and that makes you exceptional! Never stop moving!
- 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  Samantha Walsh likes your comment at
  5 Years with Type 1 Diabetes: Lessons I’ve Learned
  60 years withT1D yesterday 12/04. After a while you will learn that really you’re just living a healthier life style than the average American and that makes you exceptional! Never stop moving!
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Susan Farrell Stock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I rarely carry a glucose monitor if I'm away from home for 4 hours. If i'm in the office all day or traveling, I have it with me.
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Cheryl Seibert has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I ALWAYS bring a meter with me. Not because of calibrations, but because the CGM may be ripped off or the Sensor reading does not match how I feel (like a rapid low).
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Jeff Balbirnie has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I would NEVER do that 8-D It would be against the written protocol(s) of the CGM companies themselves
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Randell Cole has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  Yes, to many bad readings from G6 to trust it, not as accurate as they clam for me, but how do we know for sure the Meter is correct ?
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Randell Cole has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  A lot of times my g6 is just not accurate enough to dose by
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  AnitaS has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  As for calibration, that is when you can adjust the reading on your CGM. Say your CGM reads 140 but your blood glucose meter reads 152. On a Dexcom, one can adjust the CGM reading to match the meter if you want to. I am not sure if you can do that with your brand of CGM.
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  AnitaS has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I believe the question is just asking people who use a CGM if they also carry a blood glucose meter with them as a back-up in case their CGM should fail or if they want to check the accuracy of their CGM
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  ConnieT1D62 has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  Rarely. However I do carry a meter and spare supplies anytime I go away from home on long day trips or overnight stays. I used to carry a meter with me all the time as back-up but have gotten out of the habit since I have experienced very few CGM disruptions or failures with Dexcom. I coordinate CGM changes q 10 days to be done at times when I can sit still and change it.
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Donna Condi has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I carry my glucose meter with me in my purse wherever I go.
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  sweet charlie has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  Thanks... from one of your heros!!!
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Janice Bohn has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I always carry my meter and test strips along with other backup supplies
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Wanacure has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I use a Dexcom and MDI. Whenever I leave the house, I always carry my backpack with at least 2 smaller bags inside, one of which is for my small finger stick meter kit that has room for an extra syringe containing my next glargine dose, and 2 extra syringes (one is marked in half units) of lispro. The bag also has 12 extra sugar cubes in pill bottles, my lunch, some aspirin tablets (seldom used), spare hearing aids, caffeine tablets, a few baby wipes, 50 SPF sunblock, store coupons, chewable pink bismuth tablets for occasional indigestion. The other bag: iPad, appointment calendar & water/coffee/tea bottle. After other errands or meetings or library trips, I shop. The 2 smaller bags go back in the backpack on top of the groceries for my homeward journey and dinner. Cell phone is there somewhere. Dexcom receiver in pants pocket. I try to alternate day of leaving house with day at home, sort of yin-yang thing.
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Marcie Dutton has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I never leave the house without my glucometer and a full insulin pump site chg. Period!
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  KarenM6 has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  Yes. Besides the meter that is necessary for my Omnipod pump, I have a second meter that always accompanies me. I get odd CGM readings often enough and the Omnipod meter is not what I would consider accurate enough that a third meter seemed like the best way to know which BS number to act on. The third meter "calibrates" the two numbers that can be wildly different. (for instance, just two days ago, my CGM said 49 and dropping rapidly, but my Omni meter (Freestyle) said about 130... the third meter said 169. If I had trusted my CGM, I would have treated for a low until I was dangerously high.) I think my three-meter habit means I'm a bit paranoid! ;p
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  csreineke has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I keep a meter in my bag/car, in case of CGM sensor failure or session expiration while I’m out.
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Becky Hertz has commented in the same post you commented in :
  For people who use a CGM that does not typically require calibrations: If you were to spend 4 hours away from home but still in your local area (e.g., an afternoon of running errands around town, or going out for dinner and a movie), would you bring a glucose meter with you just in case?
  I said yes, but I always have a meter in my bag. Even though I use the G6, there are times that it isn't within accuracy standards.
- 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Cheryl Seibert has commented in the same post you commented in :
  If you (or your loved one) were diagnosed with T1D as a child, at what age were you diagnosed?
  I was diagnosed at age 6, about 18 months after I had German measles (the 14-day ones). I also had double-sided mumps just before the measles. My paternal grandmother had Type 2 and was on injections.
- 1 year, 8 months ago
  
  Anna Kiff has commented in the same post you commented in :
  If you (or your loved one) were diagnosed with T1D as a child, at what age were you diagnosed?
  Lol on .. best friend. Never looked at it that way .. but sometimes my friendship with them .. can drive me bonky wonky. I've always wondered what not having T1D would be like. Do you ever wonder that too? Especially if diagnosed as in childhood like you and I obviously were. I help adults that get diagnosed and feel for them since it's like their freedom has been snatched away ..and I totally get that (I also dabble in mental health which goes along side of any long term health condition).
- 1 year, 8 months ago
  
  PamK has commented in the same post you commented in :
  If you (or your loved one) were diagnosed with T1D as a child, at what age were you diagnosed?
  I was 2 1/2 years old.
- 1 year, 8 months ago
  
  C T has commented in the same post you commented in :
  If you (or your loved one) were diagnosed with T1D as a child, at what age were you diagnosed?
  1996. I had just turned 2 in December and was diagnosed in February. My grandparents spent the better part of a year bringing me to the pediatrician because I was repeatedly soaking my diaper and had gotten very thin and sickly. Was told over and over that it was "just a virus". Was eventually rushed to Boston Children's with a BG of over 900. I was there for a very long time.
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