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I am seeing a hospital consultant next week for the first time in years next Friday so I have been keeping a glucose and carb portion diary for the past couple of weeks so that he can have an overview of how I am doing. I always count carbs but I usually do it in my head and I haven’t kept a diary for years! It has struck me how different it is now to when I was first diagnosed in the mid 70’s!
At that time nothing had the nutritional info on the labels and all I had to go on was the small book giving to me by the dietician. If I wanted a soft drink I was limited to Schweppes Slimline Lemonade or Bitter Lemon then along came TAB and Fresca and changed my life!! How much easier it is today with everything labelled and most things available in a sugar free variety.
I would inject once a day with my old glass and metal syringe and needle and then test my urine with the clinetest tablet, 10 drops water and 5 drops of wee hoping for a blue result but more often than not getting bright orange! My control was terrible in my teens, I used to water down my samples! Now with multiple injection and blood testing my control is reasonable, although it could always be better
Good old days? Perhaps not
Lorna
At that time nothing had the nutritional info on the labels and all I had to go on was the small book giving to me by the dietician. If I wanted a soft drink I was limited to Schweppes Slimline Lemonade or Bitter Lemon then along came TAB and Fresca and changed my life!! How much easier it is today with everything labelled and most things available in a sugar free variety.
I would inject once a day with my old glass and metal syringe and needle and then test my urine with the clinetest tablet, 10 drops water and 5 drops of wee hoping for a blue result but more often than not getting bright orange! My control was terrible in my teens, I used to water down my samples! Now with multiple injection and blood testing my control is reasonable, although it could always be better
Good old days? Perhaps not
Lorna