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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted Account" data-source="post: 2089888"><p>Thanks for the tag [USER=468055]@Mel dCP[/USER] and welcome to the club which includes international try scoring rugby players, Oscar winning actors, renowned musicians and a prime minister. This may sound a bit of a throw away thought but it inspires me to continue to do what I want and make sure I manage diabetes rather than diabetes managing me.</p><p></p><p>As others have said, there is a lot to learn. One very important thing to learn is diabetes has not read the rule book. So don’t expect perfection; and don’t try to control diabetes.</p><p></p><p>There are lots of helpful, knowledgeable people on the forum with type 1. However, 9 out of 10 people with diabetes have type 2. So, another important thing to learn is type 1 and type 2 diabetes are different conditions with different causes and different treatments. This means a lot of what you read on the forum is targeted towards type 2 and not necessarily relevant to someone with type 1.</p><p></p><p>My last lesson is expect to keep learning and don’t expect to know everything about diabetes at the start ... or ever. Some people are getting great results with closed loop management (insulin pump, CGM and clever software). Whilst this sounds very exciting, I strongly recommend mastering the basics of calculating insulin doses and timings without any of these gadgets. Unfortunately, they can fail and if you don’t know the basics, you have no back up.</p><p></p><p>Ask questions and expect inconsistencies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted Account, post: 2089888"] Thanks for the tag [USER=468055]@Mel dCP[/USER] and welcome to the club which includes international try scoring rugby players, Oscar winning actors, renowned musicians and a prime minister. This may sound a bit of a throw away thought but it inspires me to continue to do what I want and make sure I manage diabetes rather than diabetes managing me. As others have said, there is a lot to learn. One very important thing to learn is diabetes has not read the rule book. So don’t expect perfection; and don’t try to control diabetes. There are lots of helpful, knowledgeable people on the forum with type 1. However, 9 out of 10 people with diabetes have type 2. So, another important thing to learn is type 1 and type 2 diabetes are different conditions with different causes and different treatments. This means a lot of what you read on the forum is targeted towards type 2 and not necessarily relevant to someone with type 1. My last lesson is expect to keep learning and don’t expect to know everything about diabetes at the start ... or ever. Some people are getting great results with closed loop management (insulin pump, CGM and clever software). Whilst this sounds very exciting, I strongly recommend mastering the basics of calculating insulin doses and timings without any of these gadgets. Unfortunately, they can fail and if you don’t know the basics, you have no back up. Ask questions and expect inconsistencies. [/QUOTE]
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