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<blockquote data-quote="Celsus" data-source="post: 1742851" data-attributes="member: 185674"><p>[USER=471261]@James472[/USER] was so kind to lead me here!</p><p>It may be a sensitive subject, but.... here we go! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Mid-life crisis...</p><p></p><p>Yep, I can certainly recognize most aspects in the personal stories shared above in this thread.</p><p>After I got onto the intensive multiple daily injections insulin regime and instant home monitoring of my bg back in the 80ties, I got really my Type1 under tight and very consistent control. Almost to the extreme.</p><p>No limits! Certainly nothing that disease kept me from doing. (or that was maybe my naïve idea?)</p><p>Super active, super energized, super.... yeah ok, I started to get older and learn more about life realities as well. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Got children, got married with their mother, starting having more responsibility at the job. Less hours spent on crazy active hobbies/leisure. </p><p></p><p>First bump on the road came around age 38. Clearly my background metabolism had reduced. Never having the same raw hunger anymore. Not really eating the same high quantity of calories every day. Didn't feel needing them either though.</p><p>But my basal had to be increased quite some, and started taking less bolus as I ate less. </p><p>And result was that my bg got overall much more sensitive to my daily activities. Its like your human body capacity to sustain some crazy activity was no longer up where it used to be. 7 hours of downhill skiing now needed some more planning, tighter check of the bg levels and more steady flow of carbs to keep it in range. The bg control became more 'fiddle' if you will.</p><p></p><p>And with further increased age, the muscle mass also reduce further, which again adds to the complexity to manage the bg well, as the buffer becomes smaller. The road becomes narrower and the car you drive more stiff and less agile to take the bumps, if you want another analogy? ;o) </p><p></p><p>I am not saying that we all need to accept defeat and slow down on that road, but we may want to prep for our trips better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celsus, post: 1742851, member: 185674"] [USER=471261]@James472[/USER] was so kind to lead me here! It may be a sensitive subject, but.... here we go! :) Mid-life crisis... Yep, I can certainly recognize most aspects in the personal stories shared above in this thread. After I got onto the intensive multiple daily injections insulin regime and instant home monitoring of my bg back in the 80ties, I got really my Type1 under tight and very consistent control. Almost to the extreme. No limits! Certainly nothing that disease kept me from doing. (or that was maybe my naïve idea?) Super active, super energized, super.... yeah ok, I started to get older and learn more about life realities as well. :) Got children, got married with their mother, starting having more responsibility at the job. Less hours spent on crazy active hobbies/leisure. First bump on the road came around age 38. Clearly my background metabolism had reduced. Never having the same raw hunger anymore. Not really eating the same high quantity of calories every day. Didn't feel needing them either though. But my basal had to be increased quite some, and started taking less bolus as I ate less. And result was that my bg got overall much more sensitive to my daily activities. Its like your human body capacity to sustain some crazy activity was no longer up where it used to be. 7 hours of downhill skiing now needed some more planning, tighter check of the bg levels and more steady flow of carbs to keep it in range. The bg control became more 'fiddle' if you will. And with further increased age, the muscle mass also reduce further, which again adds to the complexity to manage the bg well, as the buffer becomes smaller. The road becomes narrower and the car you drive more stiff and less agile to take the bumps, if you want another analogy? ;o) I am not saying that we all need to accept defeat and slow down on that road, but we may want to prep for our trips better. [/QUOTE]
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