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<blockquote data-quote="yingtong" data-source="post: 668730" data-attributes="member: 93467"><p>In my early days from 14 to 18 I had reasonable control,bearing in mind clini-test to gauge your B/S,which at best was a bit hit and miss,then I discovered girls and beer( I still like a occasional pint. In thoughs days I played semi-professional football and many other sports which probably allowed me to get away with my cheating,in those days information about diabetes was very poor and instructions very rigid I.e every bit of food had to be weighed and there were so many things you could not eat.One injection a day of insulin zinc suspension 80strength this lasted for about 25 years.The hospital I attended the employed a young Endo consultant who specialised in diabetes and a DSN was appointed and I given a machine to test my blood/sugars, it was about the size of a house brick and also porcine insulin.I Then got hold of a novo-pen which was being demonstrated to the DSN but I had to buy my own needles,I think they where about £15 per hundred,which was quite a lot of money in those days.Then analog insulins and MDI and life became much easier,I have always been a carb counter so not to many problems. I am now awaiting a pump which I get next March and a new chapter begins. The only problems I have is I no longer recognise hypos and I have a little background retinopathy. That is a brief history of my 50 years of being Diabetic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yingtong, post: 668730, member: 93467"] In my early days from 14 to 18 I had reasonable control,bearing in mind clini-test to gauge your B/S,which at best was a bit hit and miss,then I discovered girls and beer( I still like a occasional pint. In thoughs days I played semi-professional football and many other sports which probably allowed me to get away with my cheating,in those days information about diabetes was very poor and instructions very rigid I.e every bit of food had to be weighed and there were so many things you could not eat.One injection a day of insulin zinc suspension 80strength this lasted for about 25 years.The hospital I attended the employed a young Endo consultant who specialised in diabetes and a DSN was appointed and I given a machine to test my blood/sugars, it was about the size of a house brick and also porcine insulin.I Then got hold of a novo-pen which was being demonstrated to the DSN but I had to buy my own needles,I think they where about £15 per hundred,which was quite a lot of money in those days.Then analog insulins and MDI and life became much easier,I have always been a carb counter so not to many problems. I am now awaiting a pump which I get next March and a new chapter begins. The only problems I have is I no longer recognise hypos and I have a little background retinopathy. That is a brief history of my 50 years of being Diabetic. [/QUOTE]
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