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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thilla" data-source="post: 1817230" data-attributes="member: 470774">Thank you for being so welcoming! I'm very happy with the German care-system at the moment! I have three sons, and converted to a pump before getting pregnant with the last one without having to argue much (put an end to rollercoaster nights and forgotten injections!). The first minutes of having a pump on made me feel complete in a way I hadn't realized I wasn't, if that makes sense. Having spent the first two pregnancies in a nine-month super hypo state, I applied for continual glucose monitoring for the third, and magically got that paid for too. Since then, CGM has become something that is paid for by medical insurance, for unpregnant people too, so I really can't complain. I pay a fixed price for insulin, but everything else is payed for at the moment (touch wood!). All Germans have to have an insurance plan that costs around 14,5% of your income, and that covers all the diabetic needs I have encountered.It's interesting that you watch for hypos 6+ hours later after exercise. There's a book called the diabetic athletes handbook  (Sheri Colberg), that suggests watching for hypos 9 hours after strenuous exercise. That explained a lot!! My Doctor looks blank when I say this. Yay for people with diabetes who write books! At the moment, I eat breakfast (around 40 grams of carbohydrate in form of fruit, with seeds and nuts to slow it down a bit), and run for 40 mins without bolussing. 9 hours later I switch my pump off for a while, or take less insulin for lunch, depending on how chaotic my day is turning out to be.  For swimming, I do about the same, but leave pump off completely 30 mins before starting. Seems to work!I was diagnosed at 13 too, and spent a very long time mainly ignoring my diabetes. I can't quite understand how I survived most of it, but then I, like you also wrote, have become a little (or very) obsessive about it.It's great to here from people who have been on insulin for so long! We all know about starting out, but it's difficult to imagine the ongoing thing of it sometimes. A bit like marriages!</blockquote>

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