We’ve done a few posts before on diabetes and driving here at BeingDiabetic, and I had a reader suggest I do the below poll, which I thought was an interesting one.
If you have a topic for a poll you’d like me to put up, please contact me with your idea.
When I was first diagnosed with T1 (well actually even now when people find out for the first time that I have it) there were a lot of questions around whether diabetes was in my family. I’ve heard differing statistics over the years about what percentage of us actually have diabetes in our genes, but it’s never as high as you might think.
I met up with a couple of other T1s the other day and we all discovered that each of us has a parent with Rheumatoid Arthritis (another autoimmune condition). Which brings me to my poll. (For a long list of autoimmune conditions, have a look here)
Funny really. The newly diagnosed may nod along to this. When I was first diagnosed with T1, Mum would call out that dinner was half an hour away (those were the days of Actrapid, where you needed to give it half an hour’s head start) and I’d sit at the end of my bed with my prepped syringe trying to psych myself up to inject it in my stomach. There is no way I would ever forget a single injection.
Fast forward 14 years (this is two years ago but when I was still on MDI). I would constantly ask my husband if he’d seen me with my injection pen in my hand as I’d often take an injection on…
There are so many times in my life that I really wish I could just look down at a little monitor which would tell me what my BG was at that very moment. I thought such devices were Jetsons type stuff then I started to find out more and realised these little gadgets are available now and have been for a few years!
Points to note about the CGMS (Continuous Glucose Monitoring System) situation:
They are not at all subsidised at the moment in NZ.
They cost a lot of money to run (upwards of $60 a week, so I believe)
They have to be inserted beneath your skin, much like an insulin pump cannula would
They do not give
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