Oops! Just saw in the note with your friend request that you're not on insulin yet. Will be interested to see how your honeymoon pans out. Sometimes, I feel like I was mis-diagnosed. Then I screw up a bolus and am reminded that a BG of 250+ is not "normal."

Hey Lab Mouse! Was just checking out your profile and wondered what happened with the endo? Are you on insulin? I was diagnosed on 10/1/11. Turns out my honeymoon is taking care of my basal needs, but I bolus for meals. Although it has its challenges, it makes food choices somewhat easier knowing the "to spike or not to spike" question isn't entirely left up to the "carb or no carb" equation.

Yea a bit of a kick in the teeth at first but I try to look at the glass half full. It could have been picked up years later when the damage to eyes, kidneys, and nerves had kicked in. I also feel blessed that my circumstances (at least in regard to this disease) are under my control. If I take charge, life as an insulin dependent diabetic needs to be no more nor less than an inconvenience to my daily routine. I suppose I have also found it interesting how much there is to learn about the management of this particular disease. A bit of a science nerd at heart. Also, since I work in the medical field I really can appreciate how things have become easier in regard to the management of DM1 than even 15-20 years ago. Well, ask me in a year if I feel the same way LOL.

Patrick, I had classic polydipsia, polyuria (too much drinking and too much peeing) during a holiday in Paris where I was eating way more carbs than was normal for me. I came back and had a fasting sugar which cam back at 374! A Hgb A1c came back a few days later at 11.7 I started insulin the day after my FBS came back high. Things "so far" are going well on low carbs, excersize and a single injection of Lantus in the mornings (18 U).

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Welcome home Patrick. I can't get over such an awesome A1C so early in the game!!!!!
What insulin are you taking?
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hi Patrick, welcome! wow, just dx'd and your a1c is 5.7.

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