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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Good afternoon all,
Just thought I would write some of my thoughts down, you guys might find it interesting as I am guessing being on here you either have an interest or have diabetes.
I’ve been a diagnosed type1 diabetic for little over a year, had a turbulent sort of year. I also had my thyroid become under active in May which knocked me for 6! The one thing I didn’t want these disease’s to stop me doing is exercise, with a lot of trial and error, and some really painful legs when my thyroid stop doing as it should, I feel pretty confident getting out and running or going to the gym. Just been out and ran 10 miles this morning in-fact.
Until last week I was on a Basal (levemir) AM/PM split and bolus (novorapid) regime, worked ok but found unplanned exercise really tough, carb counting was scratchy but I got through it and my HbA1c was around 58 a month ago which I was pleased with.
Thankfully I have been accepted to go onto pump therapy to try control lots of hypo’s after long runs and heavy sessions at the gym. I went through Dafne which for me was extremely positive and I learnt a lot and now using an omnipod.
This change has transformed my life, I have happily signed up for Edinburgh Marathon for next year which I really thought wasn’t going to be possible and getting to grips with understanding how my BG’s are affected by running/weightlifting and adapting my basal presets to make things a little easier. I couldn’t be happier with my new regime and understanding of my own diabetes.
One happy diabetic
Jeff
Just thought I would write some of my thoughts down, you guys might find it interesting as I am guessing being on here you either have an interest or have diabetes.
I’ve been a diagnosed type1 diabetic for little over a year, had a turbulent sort of year. I also had my thyroid become under active in May which knocked me for 6! The one thing I didn’t want these disease’s to stop me doing is exercise, with a lot of trial and error, and some really painful legs when my thyroid stop doing as it should, I feel pretty confident getting out and running or going to the gym. Just been out and ran 10 miles this morning in-fact.
Until last week I was on a Basal (levemir) AM/PM split and bolus (novorapid) regime, worked ok but found unplanned exercise really tough, carb counting was scratchy but I got through it and my HbA1c was around 58 a month ago which I was pleased with.
Thankfully I have been accepted to go onto pump therapy to try control lots of hypo’s after long runs and heavy sessions at the gym. I went through Dafne which for me was extremely positive and I learnt a lot and now using an omnipod.
This change has transformed my life, I have happily signed up for Edinburgh Marathon for next year which I really thought wasn’t going to be possible and getting to grips with understanding how my BG’s are affected by running/weightlifting and adapting my basal presets to make things a little easier. I couldn’t be happier with my new regime and understanding of my own diabetes.
One happy diabetic
Jeff
, and my injections weren’t an issue as such to me! It’s the flexibility, I love it!!
life’s alright on a pump 
