15 years of shit.

Hi @narciso, for now the most "cheap" is that, that of Abbott's freestyle, since Dexcom depends on what the sensors last, and you have to make a bigger initial investment.

With the freestyle the initial pack will cost you € 60 the meter and 60 each sensor.With an initial investment of 180 euros you have a month to test the system.If you do not convince you, the 60 euros of the meter are not going to recover them.

As a personal opinion I think that if you use the information you give you you will learn much more in a month than you have learned in a year.It is a good investment that has changed my life.If it does not work for you, you will have "thrown" 180 euros, I think it is worth trying with 9 ...

A debut in diabetes 1 without assistance seems intolerable in Spain with the health that we subsidize among all.@Narciso, of course, I would have already gone to patient care and have inflated myself to claims.And in parallel, if you can afford it, it would have gone to an endocrine of payment.

In this forum there are very good and expert people who can help you day by day if you give them data from what you eat, glycemia before and two hours after eating, when you get up, etc.We never stop learning.

laudl said:
A type I diabetes makes you aware of your body.In health it is always said that young people are very difficult to sell them health, since they have it.This causes you to find patients of 30-40 years (non-diabetic) who have not taken care of in their life, and who now have hypertension or a coronary problem.Explain to one of that age what carbohydrates are.Agree that diabetes is a whore, but makes us aware of the importance of taking care of it.Of carrying a balanced diet and practicing physical exercise.If you saw the psychiatry patients, you would thank you for being diabetic, and not having a pathology.
With diabetes you can do the same things as others, the same.
If you do not do them or blame for the diabetes of your life, I recommend visiting a psychologist, really.
Greetings.

Hello, I'm a little fed up with "Type 1 diabetes makes you a responsible person", "makes you take care of you" or the typical "I was fat like an onion and type 1 diabetes changed my life, now I take great care of me".

Until I debuted I had a lifetime taking care of me, a lot of sport, good food, iron health, future projects ...

Suddenly this shit came to me and it ruins my life, literally or fulfilling my dream I can.

Diabetes has nothing good, it does not make you better, special or responsible.It makes you miserable, it limits you, it eats you psychologically little by little.
Pending a number, a damn number every day, at all hours, your whole life.
I was happy before, and now I am but less, obviously.And he who says otherwise lies to himself.

I keep doing everything I did before, I still fight for my vetoed dreams, Aigo doing a lot of sports and eating the same.

But everything costs me much more, my life is more miserable than before, because I have a chronic disease with a torture treatment that is 100 years old, and I need a cure.

ARTORIAS, I congratulate you for how magnificently well you have expressed what diabetes is really.
I am also very fed up with so much Happy Soplagaitas with his illness.And, worst of all, when you want to make them aware that a disease is only a misfortune, they come out with that "you are not happy" ... yes I am happy, but I look at things straight ahead.There is nothing positive in diabetes.

Diabetes, in addition to illness, is a way of life and you have to get used to, yes or yes.

I do not know if it will be my case an exception, but I have lived (and alive) quite happy and I assure you that I have been able to have experiences and "scares" of many colors.The treatments and materials of now have nothing to do with the first (logically).

I think that almost anyone will have known the administration of insulin with glass syringes and needles such as fat finger, prior "boiling" before each administration, in addition, with some qualities of lousy insulin, there was even the rapid, still, there areto assume it and "continue palante".

Look: I have 57 years and 50 years of illness (from 7 years old), I still work (or not) and do everything a bit, in short, enjoying life.

CHEER UP !!!

Xavi, encouragement !!Don't see it so bad.It is true that diabetes is shit, but I have been almost 31 years old and it has not limited me at all.Now is when despite my good controls it is starting to take its toll with a gastroparesis and is very uncomfortable.
But try to leave, normalize the disease and enjoy the life that is very fast and you are very young
A hug!!!

tica said:
me that leave me with my pancreas a little paca, but that works everything but insulin, I continue with my diabetes ...

Hahahaha I have thought of this situation many times.
The truth is that I carry little here and I feel very identified with so many cases, after all the negative feelings towards this disease we have had and we all have them, but in short, life is one!

As much as I try ... I still think that diabetes gives me limits that I did not have ... especially in terms of physical activity, it seems to me a real m *** everything I have to do to go for a walk more than20 minutes ... I don't even consider doing some sport if I have not prepared before ... I miss the spontaneity I had before being diabetic, to be able to decide on the march and do things that I want at a given time without havingto have thought about that in advance.

Does anyone else happen?

@Fer, if you lower the fast, don't you get ready?
My daughter makes some weekend and sometimes she doesn't need or fast in food.

The issue is that it is not spontaneous, I give you an example, I will visit a town on the coast, in spring, maybe that day makes a radiant sun, and I would feel like running the beach with my dog, if it was probably coldI wouldn't do.

In those cases it is when I look limited, I have to give up doing some things that I would like, and that I want to do spontaneously, but that for the control of glucose and the fear of a hypo, I have to retain ...

Imagine the typical situation in which you go with friends or family and everyone starts like crazy, as you don't do, they already hang the "rancio" label, or "little social" ... a m ***come on...

I apologize, maybe today I see the glass half empty.

fer said:
no matter how much I try ... I still think that diabetes gives me limits that I did not have ... especially in terms of physical activity, it seems to me an authentic m *** Everything I have to do to go for more than 20 minutes ... I don't even consider doing some sport if I have not prepared before ... I miss the spontaneity I had before being diabetic, to be able to decide on theMarch and do things that want me at a given time without having thought about that in advance.

Does anyone else happen?

Welcome @Fer !!

I identify and that I do sports !!

Nothing to see before and after diabetes !!

Sometimes you also want to speak badly about diabetes, if I do not give me the feeling that we admire it, you have to pay with the same currency 🤣🤣🤣🤣

fer said:
The theme is that it is not spontaneous, I give you an example, I will visit a town on the coast, in spring, maybe that day makes a radiant sun, and II would like to run the beach with my dog, if it was cold, I would probably not.

In those cases it is when I look limited, I have to give up doing some things that I would like, and that I want to do spontaneously, but that for the control of glucose and the fear of a hypo, I have to retain ...

Imagine the typical situation in which you go with friends or family and everyone starts like crazy, as you don't do, they already hang the "rancio" label, or "little social" ... a m ***come on...

Apology, maybe today I see the glass half empty.

Fer, it happens to me too.Before without a sensor and with glycosylated in good values ​​I was not aware of everything that should be out of range.By glucogenesis and hyperglycemia of training at high intensities and nocturnal hypoglycemia after training (thus I was regulatory but the anlicitics of 10).
Today if I do not plan, or work does not allow me to rest.

The problem is that it is still sold that with diabetes you can do everything.

And you can't lead a normal life.From time to time you can afford excess (with regrets) but if you want to get along well you have to be on top and be foresee.

I consider myself a positive person but I am 100% of my limitations.Yesterday I ran in the afternoon (normal rhythm but I finished tired), I went to bed and reinforced with a Greek yogurt.After fifteen years of diabetes I picho between 5 and 7 of Tresiba.Well at 6 in the morning 50mg/dl hypoglycemia and singing alarm.My very happy girlfriend (irony).

I can not say that my several habits in diabetes, since when I debuted with 12 years I was a very introverted child who did not play sports or ever had colonies.And I didn't do it later.

Obviously, any activity can be done ... but with forecast.You can improvise a walk, but not a race.You can finish off a meal with a small ice cream instead of the dessert, but it does not go through my head to click at half an hour because suddenly I am pleased with something hyperazcarado.If I am already reluctant to put extra bowling by hyperglycemia ... (I have to be above 350 to do so).

And yes, I also cursed the disease, but in reality it was I who took it as an excuse not to go out there to live.Shy things.

@Fer I think we all feel that.You cannot be prepared for everything, sometimes you have to improvise.

I have type 2 diabetes (8 years old I have been diagnosed) and I can only tell you encouragement and surely they will take something out of a fade for diabetes.So many years with the damn insulin, the pharmaceuticals are looked out, this must change, somewhere will have to explode and that the story is over to these thieves who live from the suffering of others ....

@Fer, I see you too much concern about hypos, it is true that Lantus tends to go down, my daughter was also some season, tending to hypos, but it stabilized one better down one or two units of Lantus .., I do not know ifIt will be your case .., but a race with the dog would have to do it without fear ...

Good, I am really sports almost daily, strength, some career, swimming ... and I don't always have the time planned.You see that it will give me hiccups because I take juice, cookie, pills ... and without problem.Or if it gives me any hiccups at the end, then recover.Tb is true that I am very regular and I already control that enough.I know what comes better to me, I don't get out of time to run, running only a little, but because I prefer to swim or make more strength.The important thing is to always carry juices, glucose pills, gels ...

It is true that normal life cannot be made, but I also think we can have a good life.The slavery of being aware of glucose levels, calculating and putting the appropriate insulin, once you integrate it into your routines can be handled.At least this disease does not produce pain, pain does provide you with a bad life and more limitations.
I know it is a comment of the type "there are worse things" that does not usually serve as comfort, but I thank every day because I can do many things that I like and I hope to continue a long time.

It is admirable as each one of us we carry our glycemia, blood glucose that makes a difference in each of our lives, for better or worse, some fight others, some do it as a great and enormous load, I canUnderstand, what cannot be changed has to endure.

Xavi, glycemia as you will know everything, today maybe there is no apparent damage, but it is silent and corrosiba until that day that begins to fail something, an organ, an artery, an eye, an eye, go to know.

As many I had normal glycos of 6, "normal" is not synonymous with good, it is synonymous with frequent, for many years I have tried that my diabetes "almost 50 years of diabetes" adapts to me, not that I adaptTo my diabetes, today with all the information we have and tegnologia you can and should.

I put myself in your skin, more than 20 years ago I lost my vision, I went crazy, I hated myself, and I did not accept this situation, so I began to ask me many questions, but the first thing was to pass that desert so complicated.

Maybe I dream what I am going to tell you, today I forgot that I am "diabetic" only when I go to the endocrine I remember, hehehe.

Here you have a colleague for what you need, a hug

@Davidcasinos, 50 years of díbetes are many, especially because of the imperfect treatments that were before, with which it would be impossible to achieve good glycosylated.
But with current treatments we can approach good control and also the treatments of complications are getting better.
Surely the laser did not arrive on time to treat retinopathy..The force you have had to become an Olympic medalist is admirable.