Were you part of the dark ages? B4 1975??

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Permalink Reply by Mark on October 30, 2009 at 10:53am

Yes, then I am also part of the big bang!

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Permalink Reply by Jenny on October 30, 2009 at 11:47am

To heck with the 70's, I was dx-ed in the UK and the NHS had us using this set-up in 1984!! I had to barter with the chemist to get blood test strips for a Glucometer back then. The NHS gave us metal and glass syringes, and the druggers got fresh disposables, till the BDA and others raised Hell over that.

In 1986, I started to get test strips for my Accu-Check Refloulux meter.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Rawlings on October 30, 2009 at 11:51am

To this day, I hate that particular shade of orange ....

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Permalink Reply by Sylvie on October 30, 2009 at 1:53pm

Ya me too!!

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Permalink Reply by dargirl on December 5, 2009 at 5:58am

man did it stink.

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Permalink Reply by dargirl on October 30, 2009 at 12:47pm

Yes I remember the test tube, the orange color and stinky smell when it bubbled up. yuck.

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Permalink Reply by Sylvie on October 30, 2009 at 1:55pm

OH i HAD MOMENTARILY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE SMELL...NOW I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY BRAIN!!! :)

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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on October 30, 2009 at 1:36pm

I wasn't diagnosed until 1978, but I do remember doing Clinitest.

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Permalink Reply by Sylvie on October 30, 2009 at 1:52pm

Ya I guess now that I think about it longer....I did not start blood testing till the mid eighties!! Oh those were the glory days of diabetes management....in the very short term anyway!!

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Permalink Reply by Lee Ann on October 30, 2009 at 1:59pm

I started using ChemStrips around 1982 or 1983, and I got my first meter in 1984.

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Permalink Reply by Sylvie on October 30, 2009 at 2:36pm

R u using CGM now a days?

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Gobin on October 30, 2009 at 1:53pm

Yes ;-))

Used Clinitest myself in the early days (early 1980s in the UK). Mum (a T1 since 1971) and me used to have a metal eggcup each to collect our "sweet nectar" before carrying out the test. We had the colour chart sellotaped to the inside door of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom where we stored all the paraphenalia needed for Clinitesting. Those metal eggcups sure got encrusted over time; they turned into some kind of rock formation.

I also remember Mum's glass syringes (I used plastic ones from the outset) and how they had to be steeped in boiled water after each injection and then put away in a plastic container with an alcohol solution. Swabs are another thing I remember using.

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