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Type 1 since 1994

vinr8

Member
Messages
5
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi,

I'm Vincent from The Netherlands, was diagnosed with type 1 at 6 y/o (20 years and counting) after my grandma noticed me drinking lot's of liquids. Since then i've been on several types of insuline, I remember when I was diagnosed my mom had to inject me with those "old school" big needles! No complications so far.

Right now I'm using novorapid and tresiba (switched from levermir to tresiba a few months ago, tresiba is much better!) My last hba1c was 6.9 but since i've been using the freestyle libre sensor I think I did a lot better.

Anyways I'll probably mostly be lurking and might post once in a while
 
Hello and welcome from me.
You write English very well.
Don't lurk - jump in and join us.
 
HI & Welcome, lots of us are very new here, with some old timers mixed in.

I'm sure your experience over 20 years will be helpful to a lot of people here and would also give some newbies the confidence assurance they need..

Neil
 
Daibell said:
Hi and welcome. Can you tell us in what way the Tresiba was better?
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Tresiba for me is a lot more stable than levermir. I took the levermir before sleeping around midnight, if my BS was ~7 I would wake up with a BS < 3. Tresiba doesn't give me these morning lows. In the Netherlands it's not fully covered by my insurance though. I have to pay ~30 euro's for a pack of 5 throwaway pens (yeah the throwaway pens are cheaper than the refills...)

Bluetit1802 said:
Hello and welcome from me.
You write English very well.
Don't lurk - jump in and join us.
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Thanks! I'll contribute when I can
daddys1 said:
HI & Welcome, lots of us are very new here, with some old timers mixed in.

I'm sure your experience over 20 years will be helpful to a lot of people here and would also give some newbies the confidence assurance they need..

Neil
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Thanks, good to find a more active community, not much out there online in holland

Robinredbreast said:
Hello and welcome to the forum RRB
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Thanks
 
I think we all thought you were shy! Great to have you aboard.................
 
Welcome to the forum

Pleased that you found changing to Tresiba resolved some issues, we have a few members who have recently changed to this insulin with great success.
 
A warm welcome to the forum.
 
My BM was 3.7 with the sensor but 6.7 manually ,have you had this issue?
 
RAElv said:
My BM was 3.7 with the sensor but 6.7 manually ,have you had this issue?
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Yes I noticed the same thing the sensor shows lower values. It takes a while to calibrate but after 2 days it gets more accurate for me. I usually start eating something when I feel like my bloodsugar is low, then I have the sensor to double check (usually not showing a value but showing as LOW).
 
Thanks for that here's hoping. Either way my bms will be higher over the next few days due to christmas scoffing. Have a good one
 
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