Marie 2
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- Messages
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- Type of diabetes
- LADA
- Treatment type
- Pump
You have a good point, some people would prefer it be "easy". My mother in laws boyfriend would take the exact same dose at every meal, no matter what and then wonder why he dropped sometimes in the middle of the night. Dropping so bad that emergency was called. Yet "the doctors" from his words couldn't figure out why he dropped. He was quite old and I'm not sure really capable of learning carb counting or changing doses for the amount of carbs. This is someone that completely went by what the doctors told him to take and did not change anything until the doctors told him otherwise.
Attachment to a pump also does make you think of your diabetes more often during each day. A CGM does too. I remember when I first got my CGM, I started looking at it all day, (I still do) and thinking I am a little ocd about my numbers now. When I was on shots, I would virtually ignore my BG until a meal time, bedtime or if I felt bad.
So I guess yea, you can "ignore" this disease easier without a pump and some people will be happier being that way. And I am one for whatever works for you is what's best. And I know reading some stats for the US, that 25% of type 1's have a pump, but control was not better in adolescent and young adults even though more of them had a pump. But as you got older if you had a pump control had improved. With insurance it's more of a choice here and I know even though my endo had been bugging me to get one, I waited because I really didn't want to be bothered with learning and dealing with a pump. I had this vision of tubing and pulling it loose, talking to customers and it starting to beep, needing to put insulin in it at work. Those are all things I should have not worried about, but I didn't know, nor did I care to really find out.
Now I wouldn't change having it!
Attachment to a pump also does make you think of your diabetes more often during each day. A CGM does too. I remember when I first got my CGM, I started looking at it all day, (I still do) and thinking I am a little ocd about my numbers now. When I was on shots, I would virtually ignore my BG until a meal time, bedtime or if I felt bad.
So I guess yea, you can "ignore" this disease easier without a pump and some people will be happier being that way. And I am one for whatever works for you is what's best. And I know reading some stats for the US, that 25% of type 1's have a pump, but control was not better in adolescent and young adults even though more of them had a pump. But as you got older if you had a pump control had improved. With insurance it's more of a choice here and I know even though my endo had been bugging me to get one, I waited because I really didn't want to be bothered with learning and dealing with a pump. I had this vision of tubing and pulling it loose, talking to customers and it starting to beep, needing to put insulin in it at work. Those are all things I should have not worried about, but I didn't know, nor did I care to really find out.
Now I wouldn't change having it!