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The old stuff

Zinadane

Zinadane

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Dislikes
High and low sugar levels!
Having a deep tidy of the house today. I find the boxes of cotton wool, surgical spirit, plastic boxes for this and that.
Loads of different styles of lancets, prickers, cases, etc.
Must've thrown all the glass syringes and test tubes for urine samples... adding tablets and bubbling away, waiting for the colour.
It suddenly all came flooding back to me..... the memories of all the stuff we have done and do...what a life it's been!
The memories of my father sticking big needles of pork insulin into my skinny thighs and upper arms.
OMG we are so blessed now!
But I am now starting to feel a bit depressed and quite emotional when it dawns on me for the last 48 years I have been battling with this god **** ****, every minute of every ******* day!
Happy days, I'm doing ok and actually pretty healthy (and even happy sometimes), but it just made me think of what a battle it has been!
Oh ,and I will keep battling, it's so much easier now, if any of you newbies are reading this.
 
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Another forty eighter here and i too remember clinitest tablets and glass syringes and the like.
I too wonder how i survived those years!
Im still working and driving and hope we can give some optimism for the future to those poor souls just diagnosed.

I still marvel at the 4mm needles ever day!
I really really do....

Happy Monday

Tony
 
I'm a 52er and my parents really spoiled me by paying for disposable syringes. But I remember how I hated cleaning out the test tube after doing a urine test...

Yes, the technology now is miraculous.
 
Hearing about the olden days certainly makes us appreciate the tech we have today.
A bent pump cannula once in a while rather than huge reusable syringes multiple times a day.
An occasional inaccurate Libre compared to peeing on a stick to learn you are high but no idea how high.
A Fiasp bolus that worked faster than expected compared to mixed insulin which forced you to eat a set amount of carbs at a certain time of day.

Yes, we have problems but they are problems with far far better treatment which, I hope, will maintain better quality of life with less complications, amputations and early deaths.
It will be interesting when these improvements are taking into consideration for the expected lifespan of someone with Type 1 diabetes.
 
How happy I am that my diabetes started only in 2004! The progress is really impressive. Although I still remember the times when the dose of bazal was divided in half and it had to be shaken before injection, but this is ******** compared to what it was in your time. How did you control diabetes back then? I'm used to insulin being something that will solve any problem in half an hour, an hour at most, but in an hour we won't even have glycosuria, and we will see an improvement in urine analysis no earlier than half a day later. ****, how did you manage to control bg in those years? With terribly slow insulin? Without DAFNEE? At that time, it took less injections per day, didn't it?
 
42 years for me can remember all of the above , could use the old saying “ people today don’t know they are born “ lol the comparison between then and know is like night and day. It was definitely a cause of “point and shoot “ but seeing as we only took two insulins a day it was a case of eat to the insulin soooo restrictive , blood sugar was taken at hospital, hospital consultants were like school teachers giving you a row if bs results were anything but perfect, inulins were different strength so had to divide dosage against value on syringe , syringe needles were like darts and used until blunt, to be honest I loved the chemistry set for testing urinebut it was totally irrelevant to blood sugar but it was ok something different, after using it I knew what hell was like cos it bubbled up hotter than the devils bum ,
have to say thing’s so much better today that’s true about everything, , not only the techy stuff but attitude as well I’m sure in time to come things will become easier still, but whether we see a cure I think that is still a way off
 
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