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Can Type 1s have insulin resistance or develop it? If so, what are the symptoms?

Do you eat whatever you want, not restricting any food groups, and then match the amount of insulin you take to cover the carbs in whatever you are going to eat? Or, have you cut your carbs and maybe do keto, so that you can inject as little insulin as possible? I’m also wondering what your...

You may find this article from CBC (Canada's mainstream news) about pumps interesting. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/implant-files-insulin-pumps-1.4915491

I usually have below normal BG readings after midnight, getting lower and lower and not followed by the Somogyi rebound effect or the dawn effect. I have lessened the amount of basal I take once a day in the evening (even below what the endocrinologist prescribed) but I still get this. The...

I am really struggling with trying to keep weight on. I am very skinny. I eat about 100 to 150 carbs a day. I cut out all starch because my BG went out of control, so I do not want to increase carbs. I'd rather look like a skeleton but have in range BG as I was suffering complications before...

Hello Everyone, I was diagnosed 2 months ago with Type 1 and I am 63 years old ! (I feel very young though, probably younger than my kids.) I was wondering if anyone out there has been diagnosed Type 1 around this age.At first my general doctor said I was Type 2 because of my age, but when I...