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<blockquote data-quote="prancer53" data-source="post: 1218564" data-attributes="member: 85578"><p>Yes I agree--I have had diabetes for 54 years (no complications) --since age of 8 and have found that learning from your own experiences is the best thing. Your body, and response to insulin, can change dramatically as you progress through life stages and depending on levels of activity--if you are female it also changes every month through hormones involved in the monthly cycle and, of course, during pregnancy. At 16 I was accepted at a professional ballet school and the daily activity whilst training meant I had to lower my insulin substantially but was also able to eat more spontaneously rather than eating every 2 hours (1 daily injection of soluble and Protamine Zinc insulin--which at aged 27 I started to produce antibodies against so had to be put on different insulins). No advice about this offered by docs though--I just had to work everything out for myself!!!!! Same happened whilst working as a dancer in Italian Operetta Company for 2 years & other work I did in UK which involved heavy & constant physical activity whilst employed as a dancer. When I got married and gave up dancing I had to have far, far more insulin and stick to a very careful diet once more (& I put weight on too--even though I was eating far less food). I found that things also changed substantially in my mid 30 s re insulin and diet & then during pregnancy-also when I developed hypothyroidism. At 47 (when both children were at senior school) I did a Dance Degree and then went onto the Royal Academy of Dance to do a Post Graduate teaching degree at 50--both of which involved daily substantial physical activity and travel and which again meant great responsive changes with diet & insulin. I have since been a teacher of dance, drama & English (thanks Michael Gove for taking dance & drama out of core curriculum and Cameron's government for taking both out of curriculum altogether--so I now do supply teaching which often means I do not know where I will be working from day to day, have t/b suited and booted by 7am ready to travel to wherever-- have 1 mark of insulin at 5.30 am so sugar doesn't rise substantially before proper time for morning jab, breakfast jab in car at a convenient stop and then eat food on the way into school so I do not run out of insulin (& feel awful) by the time lunchtime comes (most schools have very long mornings but short afternoons). I also work on Cunard & P & O ships,, during school holidays organising & delivering youth activities and that involves other dramatic change to diabetic management. My advice is to always learn by your own experience because although most doctors understand facts and figures re diabetes they have virtually no experience re diabetes management--in my opinion anyway (one doc @ diabetes clinic started shouting at me re this and was very much on the defensive--but respect--he was actually a very good doc with good understanding...)!!!! I know I sound very, very opiniated and judgemental but I know that most of the learning re diabetes has been accumulated from my own experience!! I find I am treated quite negatively since I reached 60 (going on 63 now), not just re diabetes, & that most docs talk to me as though I have type 2 (& cannot be persuaded otherwise, it would seem)!!!!!! Fed up arguing with dos, frankly.......!!!!!!!!!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prancer53, post: 1218564, member: 85578"] Yes I agree--I have had diabetes for 54 years (no complications) --since age of 8 and have found that learning from your own experiences is the best thing. Your body, and response to insulin, can change dramatically as you progress through life stages and depending on levels of activity--if you are female it also changes every month through hormones involved in the monthly cycle and, of course, during pregnancy. At 16 I was accepted at a professional ballet school and the daily activity whilst training meant I had to lower my insulin substantially but was also able to eat more spontaneously rather than eating every 2 hours (1 daily injection of soluble and Protamine Zinc insulin--which at aged 27 I started to produce antibodies against so had to be put on different insulins). No advice about this offered by docs though--I just had to work everything out for myself!!!!! Same happened whilst working as a dancer in Italian Operetta Company for 2 years & other work I did in UK which involved heavy & constant physical activity whilst employed as a dancer. When I got married and gave up dancing I had to have far, far more insulin and stick to a very careful diet once more (& I put weight on too--even though I was eating far less food). I found that things also changed substantially in my mid 30 s re insulin and diet & then during pregnancy-also when I developed hypothyroidism. At 47 (when both children were at senior school) I did a Dance Degree and then went onto the Royal Academy of Dance to do a Post Graduate teaching degree at 50--both of which involved daily substantial physical activity and travel and which again meant great responsive changes with diet & insulin. I have since been a teacher of dance, drama & English (thanks Michael Gove for taking dance & drama out of core curriculum and Cameron's government for taking both out of curriculum altogether--so I now do supply teaching which often means I do not know where I will be working from day to day, have t/b suited and booted by 7am ready to travel to wherever-- have 1 mark of insulin at 5.30 am so sugar doesn't rise substantially before proper time for morning jab, breakfast jab in car at a convenient stop and then eat food on the way into school so I do not run out of insulin (& feel awful) by the time lunchtime comes (most schools have very long mornings but short afternoons). I also work on Cunard & P & O ships,, during school holidays organising & delivering youth activities and that involves other dramatic change to diabetic management. My advice is to always learn by your own experience because although most doctors understand facts and figures re diabetes they have virtually no experience re diabetes management--in my opinion anyway (one doc @ diabetes clinic started shouting at me re this and was very much on the defensive--but respect--he was actually a very good doc with good understanding...)!!!! I know I sound very, very opiniated and judgemental but I know that most of the learning re diabetes has been accumulated from my own experience!! I find I am treated quite negatively since I reached 60 (going on 63 now), not just re diabetes, & that most docs talk to me as though I have type 2 (& cannot be persuaded otherwise, it would seem)!!!!!! Fed up arguing with dos, frankly.......!!!!!!!!!!!! [/QUOTE]
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