Hi Everyone,
I'm so sad after reading this topic. My husband works in the UK and we (me and our 2 small sons) would like to follow him, beacuse we don't want to live separately (which we are since last summer). I have diabetes type 1 for 24 years and I'm quite an unstable one. I had two hard pregnancies and after my sons were born I realized I'm vulnerable, my diabetes eats me if I don't tighten on the control. I don't have 2 same days, I run after my kids, we have a lot of kid-illnesses which I catch from them, I'm trying to do some sports and I have a reflux which makes diabetes harder. So I have to make 10-12 measures a day othervise I'm moving between 2 and 20. I measure at least 1x during night, before all meals, after meals, after waking up, before going to bed, before every driving, before and after sports, before running after kids in the playground, I make measures when I feel high or low. Count it. This is my life, when I loose on the tight control, I'm bouncing between hypo and hiper, but with these measures I can make my HbA1c around 6 (6.2, 6.5 and still have smaller hypos and smaller hipers daily).
I know if I have to eat or give insulin correction after the measurements and I can prevent many hypos and hipers (or make them less extreme), and sometimes it is really important to know if my bg is going up, down or stable, so I make twice measurements in 20 minutes, just to know its direction (it is important before sport, drive, going out with kids or before sleep). A bad weather comes and my bg goes up or down, I'm women so I have to adjust insulins according to my monthly periods, we have lots of kindergarten's illnesses... I can't live normally without checking my bg so many times.
I'm NOT the average, but the average is not as unstable as me, but I'm not the only one. It"s not my fault. My diabetes is in the first place in my life, I'd like to see my grandhildren.
I"m sad, beacuse I don't want to go to a country where people think I'm not normal and I use other people's test strips who was born there. I don't want to have strips against others.
And I'm so suprised on some comments where people with type 2 and 1.5 compare themselves and their measuring habits to type 1's.