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Hi suematt, welcome to the forum! I have been T1 for some 30 years now and I am 52. I am experiencing a worsening in BG control as of late, and my doctor said it is probably due to menopause, which makes control more difficult and BG levels definitely more erratic… He advised I just check often...

I am in my fifties so 'my family' means three different things.: the family I was born in, my own family (my hubby and me) and my in-laws and relatives. The family I was born in did not talk much about diabetes because at the time when my younger sister (first) and I (several years later) were...

Dear Luca (by the way, we might be living in the same country but of course I'll keep writing in English), I have been type 1 for over 30 years and in my experience seasonal changes in insulin requirements have always been the rule. As far as I am concerned, warm weather brings the need for a...

'In praise of dreams' by Jan Garbarek works wonderfully for me.

Dear Diakat, I often have similar problems with my prescriptions, so I got into the habit of always checking them through before I leave my doctor's office. I hate having to check other people's work because my assumption is, they should be perfectly capable of doing their job at least...

Dear @MeganTetley, there's a useful book by Bill Polonski, 'Diabetes Burnout', which I found very useful. It provides ideas, motivation and also some forms to help the reader to set his/her own goals and keep track of their progress. The author as well suggests taking one step at a time. As...

Blimey!

I write a good old rant on my diary, it really helps. Nobody is going to read it, so I can get really nasty (and wholly unfair, sometimes, but then my aim is letting out some steam) and after a while I feel better; actually, there are times when I go back to those entries just to have a little...

Hi, Aamber! Posting on this forum was a good move, there are many people who will be glad to be of help. What you report about your insulin doses being changed is nothing to get depressed about: it surely does NOT mean you are 'doing wrong'. Always changing and adapting insulin doses is what...

Hi lizziewizzie, are you on Lantus perhaps? I experienced a period of unexplained exhaustion some two years ago and it ended abruptly when I was changed from Lantus to Tresiba. (I was rather disappointed the doctor had had me waste time with thyroid and anaemia exams, when the real 'culprit' had...

Regarding the lack of vitamin D-hypothesis, I'd just like to remind that Sardinia is amongst the regions with the highest T1 incidence in Europe, yet it is a very warm and sunny place, with no big industrial cities and a thoroughly 'Mediterranean' lifestyle as for diet, rural living, sunlight...

How do I post a Like to this? Anyway: I couldn't agree more.

Perhaps I didn't quite catch the gist of your post, but really there's no use in recalling the need for prevention among Type 1s, as there's no way to prevent T1 diabetes. And as for healthy lifestyle, why, that's a pillar of our therapy, I mean we're forced (and well used) to adopt it.

Hélas, ce que tu as raison!

Hi Cjburny, try and google 'Huffington post type 1 diabetes': author Riva Greenberg wrote several fine articles about what diabetes is, what T1 is (in itself, and as opposed to T2) and what living with T1 is. All very clear, matter of fact and catching, at the same time. I printed some of them...

Dear Mep, I am a T1 and I am told that the essential difference between T1 and T2 lies in the fact that we not only suffer from a nearly-complete lack of insulin, but also of 5 other glucose-regulating hormones, which cannot be replaced by therapy and are all of them necessary for a normal...

I rather agree with Griffter15: I wouldn't like to have a computer do all the job. First, because I can't even wear a wristwatch without it stopping within a couple of hours. I tried a CGM several times, but no way: it won't work more than a couple of days (best-case scenario). Then, because I...

I wonder why, as soon as you are diagnosed, everybody supposes you must be crazy about sweets, though… Well, of course your wife knows your tastes, but I met tons of people who rushed to buy me sweets as soon as they knew about my being diabetic – not even the artificially sweetened kind, by the...

Paulina, I can relate… I was diagnosed T1 many years ago and my mother never, never understood what T1 was, though she was a chemist and the docs explained her several times. She kept blaming and demonizing sugar… At the time I was mad at her, but now I'm older and I think perhaps she just found...

Spiker, NO! Absolutely NOT, if the lady was unconscious! There was serious risk of suffocating (choking? sorry, my English is poor) her: they should just have called an ambulance and look after her to make sure she kept breathing (the safest position to put the victim is with her torso up so her...