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CartaX2

CartaX2

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
Hello everyone,

My name is Chris and I am a 33 year old Canadian living in Newfoundland at the present time. I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when I was 16, so I am pushing 15+ years with the disease. I am currently using an insulin pump, and have been for some time. I look forward to learning from everyone. I am going through a particularly bad time with health anxiety at the moment, and I hope getting connected with people who have been living with the same condition will give me comfort and information to help me better cope with what is going on.

Thank you,

Chris
 
Thanks for the tag, @Jaylee .

Hi @CartaX2 , it's amazing how small the world is!

You're in Newfoundland, and I'm currently sitting in a pub in Scotland, reading a tartan-noir crime novel by a Glasgow author, Peter May, called Entry Island, about a murder on Entry Island in les Îles de la Madeleine, which seem to be in the general area of Newfoundland. Spooky or what?

Anyway, that coincidence aside, welcome to the club!

I see you've got another post elsewhere, there's a few things you mention in it which I might be able to contribute to, so I'll do a post about that tomorrow.

Just to give you advance warning, it'll mainly be to do with how you should get yourself kitted out with cgm like libre or dexcom so you can see how your bg is moving instead of strip guesswork.

Cgm is a gamechanger for T1s - it removes a lot of the anxieties when we can see what we're dealing with - you can see from an AGP graph, which is a beefed up version of an a1c, how your a1c is constructed, and take steps in real time every day to tweak and nudge levels.
 
Hello everyone,

Thank you for the welcome!

Yes, it is a small world Scott.

I agree 100% regarding the CGM. I was given a set of sensors and the transmitter with the most recent pump I got. Unfortunately, once the sensors were no longer usable, paying out of pocket because the reality. Unfortunately, even with my health insurance which I get through my employer, I get 0% coverage of CGM. So, that means paying upwards of $300 or more per month. Financially, I cannot do it. It is too bad because as you mentioned it is a game changer.

I did use the Freestyle Libre. The main problem I had with this was the 20% variance in readings. For example, if the Libre showed 4.8, I would test with my meter and in reality was 2.8. Same thing occurred at the higher end. I could be reading 8.5, but when doing a glucometer check, it was actually 13.4. Not even relatively close.
 
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CartaX2 said:
Hello everyone,

My name is Chris and I am a 33 year old Canadian living in Newfoundland at the present time. I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when I was 16, so I am pushing 15+ years with the disease. I am currently using an insulin pump, and have been for some time. I look forward to learning from everyone. I am going through a particularly bad time with health anxiety at the moment, and I hope getting connected with people who have been living with the same condition will give me comfort and information to help me better cope with what is going on.

Thank you,

Chris
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Welcome here Chris This is a great forum hope you’ll enjoy being here
 
Hi @CartaX2
welcome to the forum !!:)

sorry you are suffering with anxiety at the moment..........not easy on top of the D.
I always try to be kind to myself no matter what because the strain and stress of the D can overwhelm.
 
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