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Hello!

Yesterday I registered on the forum and I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself.I am Julio, I am 37 years old and I have been a Type 1 Diabetic for almost 30 years. A few years ago I was more involved in sharing my experience and reflections on Diabetes, writing in different publications and blogs and even making videos although I stopped doing so.

I have always been a sports lover, I am a Senior Technician in Physical and Sports Activities and my entire career has been focused on ensuring that diabetes does not represent a barrier for me.I have participated in dozens of races, marathons, half marathons, trail and ultratrail and gravel and road cycling events.I have never been one of the first, but I have been able to finish what I have set out to do, without risk to my health.

Currently I continue to do sports daily and participate in sports events, I have good control (although I resist using a pump) and a few months ago I discovered the strict low carb diet that I have adapted to my routine and it has greatly improved my self-control and emotional state.

It is a pleasure to greet you, I hope to continue learning as I have already begun to do by reading your contributions and I hope I can also be of help with whatever I can contribute.

Welcome, @JulioGar!

It's impressive to read everything you've done with diabetes.Thirty years of type 1, sports at that level, marathons, trail running, cycling... and also maintaining good control.It is a very powerful example that diabetes does not have to stop us when we learn to know our body and adapt.

Furthermore, your experience in sports and in strategies such as low carb can contribute a lot here.There are many people in the forum who do physical activity and questions always arise about blood glucose during training, races, hiccups during long efforts, etc.Surely your experiences in that field can help more than one person.

And although you say that you have never been one of the first, finishing ultras or marathons with diabetes is already a huge achievement.Here we value sharing the real experience much more than the finish times.

So if you're up for it, it would be great if one day you could tell us how you manage diabetes in long training sessions or in competition.I'm sure many of us would benefit from learning from someone with your experience.

A pleasure to have you here.💪

JulioGar said:
@JulioGar said:

Hello!

Yesterday I registered on the forum and I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself.I am Julio, I am 37 years old and I have been a Type 1 Diabetic for almost 30 years. A few years ago I was more involved in sharing my experience and reflections on Diabetes, writing in different publications and blogs and even making videos although I stopped doing so.

I have always been a sports lover, I am a Senior Technician in Physical and Sports Activities and my entire career has been focused on ensuring that diabetes does not represent a barrier for me.I have participated in dozens of races, marathons, half marathons, trail and ultratrail and gravel and road cycling events.I have never been one of the first, but I have been able to finish what I have set out to do, without risk to my health.

Currently I continue to do sports daily and participate in sports events, I have good control (although I resist using a pump) and a few months ago I discovered the strict low carb diet that I have adapted to my routine and it has greatly improved my self-control and emotional state.

It is a pleasure to greet you, I hope to continue learning as I have already begun to do by reading your contributions and I hope I can also be of help with whatever I can contribute.

Why do you resist using a pump?I have 43 db type 1. I have never wanted a pump but my endocrinologist recommended it to me.To free myself from some burden.mentally, for my work and also for better control of the nights and the dawn phenomenon that there is no way.He also told me that it is easier to have a percentage of more than 80 or 90 percent in range than with feathers and less strict with the diet, which is sometimes difficult to maintain.I do lowcarb but not keto and it is true that it is often difficult to manage, especially if you have to eat out for work.

meginer said:
@meginer said:

JulioGar said:
JulioGarsaid:
@JulioGarsaid:

Hello!

Yesterday I registered on the forum and I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself.I am Julio, I am 37 years old and I have been a Type 1 Diabetic for almost 30 years. A few years ago I was more involved in sharing my experience and reflections on Diabetes, writing in different publications and blogs and even making videos although I stopped doing so.

I have always been a sports lover, I am a Senior Technician in Physical and Sports Activities and my entire career has been focused on ensuring that diabetes does not represent a barrier for me.I have participated in dozens of races, marathons, half marathons, trail and ultratrail and gravel and road cycling events.I have never been one of the first, but I have been able to finish what I have set out to do, without risk to my health.

Currently I continue to do sports daily and participate in sports events, I have good control (although I resist using a pump) and a few months ago I discovered the strict low carb diet that I have adapted to my routine and it has greatly improved my self-control and emotional state.

It is a pleasure to greet you, I hope to continue learning as I have already begun to do by reading your contributions and I hope I can also be of help with whatever I can contribute.

Why do you resist using a pump?I have 43 db type 1. I have never wanted a pump but my endocrinologist recommended it to me.To free myself from some burden.mentally, for my work and also for better control of the nights and the dawn phenomenon that there is no way.He also told me that it is easier to have a percentage of more than 80 or 90 percent in range than with feathers and less strict with the diet, which is sometimes difficult to maintain.I do lowcarb but not keto and it is true that it is often difficult to manage, especially if you have to eat out for work.

Hello!Well, fundamentally it is a psychological question.I don't like the idea of ​​carrying a catheter with an electronic device attached, especially considering sports and my lifestyle.In addition, it requires more trips to get consumables, the possibility of failures... Right now I have an IRR of 90% and my last HbA1c was 5.8%, with very little glycemic variability, testing myself approximately 3 times a day (2 basal and a correction bolus for a meal).It is true that I follow a very strict diet and a very specific sports plan, but I feel comfortable with it and I see more drawbacks than advantages... But it is something very, very personal.I am aware of the progress it represents, the many advantages it has and how much it improves self-control for most people, much less would I advise against it to other people.

Well, an insulin pump wouldn't go amiss for me, the new ones with algorithms and shit that get to know you and are synchronized with the sensor, nothing like the one I had 28 years ago from Medtronic, that one I chose to throw away after 2 years of use, not because of the catheter it was more than if it is uncomfortable for everything, but I became like a fat cow I went from 67 kg to 98 kg because I lost control eating while wearing a pump I thought thatI had a plastic pancreas, but now although my Hb1ac is 6.4% and I have a range of 84% in 90 days, I suffer from diabetic retinopathy in one eye, I already had the laser 4 years ago, but the best treatment is glucose stability the retinologist told me and I follow it to the letter, but I have periods of dawn syndrome, perhaps on the next visit to the endocrinologist I will consider the pump.Saying that I have diabetic retinopathy is my fault, for being a fucking irresponsible and textbook asshole, there's nothing more to it, I thought I was untouchable and sugar little by little takes its toll on you.Although it is also true that control like with a sensor is impossible to use like that with a capillary because you are simply left without fingers, without test strips, my god if it weren't for the sensor...

@RomaVictis said:

Well, an insulin pump wouldn't go amiss for me, the new ones with algorithms and shit that get to know you and are synchronized with the sensor, nothing like the one I had 28 years ago from Medtronic, that one I chose to throw away after 2 years of use, not because of the catheter it was more than if it is uncomfortable for everything, but I became like a fat cow I went from 67 kg to 98 kg because I lost control eating while wearing a pump I thought thatI had a plastic pancreas, but now although my Hb1ac is 6.4% and I have a range of 84% in 90 days, I suffer from diabetic retinopathy in one eye, I already had the laser 4 years ago, but the best treatment is glucose stability the retinologist told me and I follow it to the letter, but I have periods of dawn syndrome, perhaps on the next visit to the endocrinologist I will consider the pump.Saying that I have diabetic retinopathy is my fault, for being a fucking irresponsible and textbook asshole, there's nothing more to it, I thought I was untouchable and sugar little by little takes its toll on you.Although it is also true that control like with a sensor is impossible to use like that with a capillary because you are simply left without fingers, without test strips, my god if it weren't for the sensor...

I am starting the process.I went to the first day of training.I already have it with me although I haven't connected it yet and it doesn't perfuse.

I was reluctant like Julio to take it, but I have decided to give it a chance.

After 36 years with syringes, pens, lancets, ketone strips, panphotofuagulated proliferative retinopathy and the last 10 years with a sensor, I think it is what could best suit me... My diabetes is very labile.And I think it's the best for my mental health...

It's hard for me because I think like Julio, "being stuck to a catheter..." "It's enough with the sensor..." But I think it's more important to be better (I'm not bad, but it can always be improved), to stop pricking myself 6-7 times a day (if I eat it... I won't even tell you...), the mental load, the nights correcting... At least it requires 100% of my day... And as I say, aside from that, the normal life of a "normal" person, whowe all have.

So let's see how it goes!Each of us is a world and we have to find what best suits us.

@SilviaGRZ please tell us what's up, I'm like your proliferative diabetic retinopathy in one eye and also panphotocoagulated, I'm also seriously considering it, the truth is, as I said, 84% in range and now Hb1AC is 6.4% but mentally I'm already saturated, and as I said with sensors and algorithms a pump is a way to control the disease, I also prick myself 6-7 times a day, corrections, hiccups, a drama

@RomaVictis said:

@SilviaGRZPlease tell us what's up, I'm the same as your proliferative diabetic retinopathy in one eye and also panphotocoagulated, I'm also seriously considering it, the truth is, as I said, 84% in range and now Hb1AC is 6.4% but mentally I'm already saturated, and as I said with sensors and algorithms a pump is a way to control the disease, I also prick myself 6-7 times a day, corrections, hiccups, a drama

Don't worry, I'll keep you informed.

If you want, so as not to divert the thread of this entry, I will put it in one created by one of the creators of this forum, Fer.

It's called: New with the insulin pump: Ypsomed mylife YpsoPump + FeeeStyle Libre 3.

Tomorrow I go to the next training.I'm telling you.I have many doubts, but I think that for diabetes like ours... I don't mind pricking myself/calculating... during the day... but not sleeping often is causing me big problems... It's more the mental load than anything else...

Cheer up!

Hello, I also plan to ask for information on my next visit to the endocrinologist but, since I am a bit of an asshole, I can think of questions like: Does the pump never make a mistake?What if the algorithm goes crazy and releases all the insulin from the reservoir by mistake and causes me to hiccup?and nonsense of that kind.

Sandman said:
@Sandman said:

Hello, I also plan to ask for information on my next visit to the endocrinologist but, since I am a bit of an asshole, I can think of questions like: Does the pump never make a mistake?What if the algorithm goes crazy and releases all the insulin from the reservoir by mistake and causes me to hiccup?and nonsense of that kind.

There are some units.maximum allowed that you can adjust per bolus.

I have been told that the algorithm is very secure.Let's trust!

Sandman said: