Diabetics Thread

[jlauro]

I was diagnosed with type 1 about 15 years ago (my sugar was over 1300 and in the hospital for almost a week). Was able to get off of insulin after several months and mostly stay off of it for a number of years keeping it under control with exercise and diet (but sometimes having to go back on insulin for a couple of months). One thing I noticed over the years is I have more problems in the winter months (Dec-March) than rest of the year, and the amount of exercise doesn't change much during the year (diet might with holidays, more people bringing donuts to work, etc). Throughout the years I would check typically 1/day to every other day when under control, but other times 3-5/day when trying to figure things out. Recently (not even a month ago) I switched to freestyle libre CGM for checking my sugar which makes it checking frequently very easy. It checks something like every 5 minutes, but you can check upto once a minute. It gives very useful plots, especially to see what impact exercise has, what different foods cause to spike or not change things much, how quickly or long it takes for sugar levels to start to rise or fall, etc... The cgm sensors costs a little more than taking insulin or other medicine, but I prefer to keep it under control by exercise and diet as long as I can. I already noticed sometimes I can feel hungry, and based on when I last eat I would expect my sugar levels to be more normal but they would be high... I don't eat the same things consistently, but I think I am going to start having eggs for breakfast more often and cereal less often (eggs don't even register, and cereal spikes a fair bit).