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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emirp" data-source="post: 2022508" data-attributes="member: 503491">Hi to you all, I was diagnosed with T1 diabetes in 1949 at the age of twelve years. I had, over the period of a few short weeks, lost almost half of my body weight. Our local GP had to consult with others to determine my condition before rushing me to the General Hospital.I spent one week being stabilised, taught about carbohydrates and diets. I was shown how to sterilise equipment and sharpen needles and measure dosages. After that I was sent home with a diet sheet a single glass syringe a couple of needles and a Carborundum stone. I attended a clinic at the same hospital every six months where, during one of the visits, I was shown how to test urine samples to better control my glucose levels. My medication was a single morning injection of Bovine insulin consisting of equal parts Soluble and protomine zinc. I continued this regimen until the late 1990s the only change being to the use of plastic throw away syringes.From there on I led a fairly normal diet controlled life, my mother would weigh such things as bread potatoes and other root vegetables but that was a far as the diet control went.I participated in most field sports plus cycling, wrestling and swimming and I only ever remember a single episode of hypoglycemia until I reached my thirties. I currently walk for at least one hour each day most of it at a brisk pace, and running up short flights of stairs. I am a keen gardener and grow a good variety vegetables which means quite a lot of digging.During my fifties & sixties I travelled extensively throughout the world spending extensive periods in Southern Africa, Asia and Australia without encountering any difficulties other than one occasion in Zimbabwe where my Insulin spoiled.This narrative is not meant as a boast but more of a statement of what a person with T1 diabetes can do with a certain amount of control and guidance.</blockquote>

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