Good I wanted to count my experience with the disease.I have never spoken in depth about the sick with some other diabetic, so I have always doubted whether my case is normal or rare
Debute with type 1 diabetes at age 18, now I have 30. The first 10 or 11 years I have always felt a privileged one for the easy control I had.I always needed very little insulin.
In those years without taking into account possible fluctuations due to the change of station, etc.I was injected with about 6 or 7 units of Lantus and 2, 1, 1 at Apidra meals.Eating 120gr of pasta I could get to 4 but difficult to need more of that.The glucosilada of a non -diabetic person, without excessive scares by hypos, was as if you did not have to risk to nail the target blood sugar, if I fell short my pancras compensated (honeymoon perhaps).
In addition to the above if I go to the beach stopped needing to prick insulin, this last summer only 3 of Lantus and may even remain.I did not ate large amounts of hydrates but the 40 gr at each meal could eat.
Another curiosity is that simply in walking with some demand to lower my sugar.I can leave home in 150 and walk 20 min and see me in 80, at that time I take glucose, I do not expect to see how much I could go down, this having spent 3h from the fast injection.
These were my first 10 years, I guess good.Now change Apidra for Humalog Junior and Lantus skewed me 9 unds.At breakfast with 40gr of hydrates I click 1.5 unds, with a legume I do not click anything and with 350gr of potatoes me picnho 2 unds.
But the sensor appeared in my life.No doubt a total improvement, despite its imperfections.
But having the possibility to see the sugar every moment has made me obsess in it.If I inject insulin to eat I am the 2H pending mobile, it did not disconnect.With the sensor I see drops of 80 that in a few minutes would be 60 that without it I would not realize.I really do not understand how in the first 10 years without the sensor those possible hypos did not end in something serious.
I would be unable to live without a sensor, I think it would be too late when I realized a descent, because with an empty stomach before eating I notice when I am in 70, but a hiccMore difficult, the notary around 55 and it is not so easy for me to identify it.But I think, these situations had to live in the first 10 years without a sensor and nothing happened, such as.
I don't know, I wanted to know if this fear of a serious hypo, has foundation.I am scared to see me at eating and having injected insulin in 100, measuring at 5 min and seeing me in 80, taking quick glucose because in another 5 min I can be in 60 and another 5 in 40.
I have raised to have a quieter life to reduce carbohydrates to the point of not needing insulin or if they go out to walk so they will not need to prick me
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