New Newbie in the House

[LifeWear]

Hello ,

My name Chris Smith and I have type 1 Diabetes for 8 years now. I live in San Francisco having as much fun as possible, selling medical jewelry, and running a magazine.

Life is good, and diabetes does not slow me down until my sugars get raised due to stress.. and then watch out...

I look forward to adding more....

chris

[Anita]

Hi Chris,

Welcome to our forum.
Hope you'll like it here and that you'll both learn and educate us with new informartion.
There are many nice people here, so I hope you'll find friends here too.

See you around,
Anita.

[Gemstone]

Welcome Chris. You'll feel right at home in our little group.

[csr18]

Hi Chris, good to have another Type 1 here.

[juliedevos]

Hi csr18,
Props go out to the Novorapid! Except mine is in a pump.
Can I ask what Lememir is?

Julie

[csr18]

Hi Julie,
Levemir is my long acting insulin.
The novorapid is pretty good too as it starts acting quickly.
How long have you had the pump for?

[juliedevos]

Hey Csr18,
I've been on it for almost 5 years now. I am using novorapid or humalog in it. I just found that NPH was not working for me and I was going high and low everyday and if I was even a few mintues late eating snacks I would go very low. It was too hard to maintain a proper schedule on N and being in university with classes at different times during the week. Thats how I decided to get it. It gives you alot of flexibility though and my A1C dropped quite a bit. However now its back up for some reason and I am having a hard time staying in control.

Just out of curiosity, when were you diagonosed? I was at 11 and so was my brother.

Julie

[csr18]

I was diagnosed when i was 30, ten years ago. started as Type2 then after a year became Type1.
I've always been curious of the pump but get on ok with the injections (4 times a day)

[juliedevos]

Well I just find with the pump that you match your basal rates to exactly what your body is doing. Especially at night time. FOr me I need more insulin in the early hours than when I go to bed, and need less just before lunch time. You also have many different features to choose from that can help. FOr example lets say you go to a party and there is food out all night and you will be nibbling rather than eating a larger meal you can set the pump so that it will give you smaller doses over the course of the night instead of one large one.

When you exercise you can turn your pump off so you arent getting any insulin so you dont go low rather than having to eat something.
I just find there are many advantages to it.

Anyways I find it really handy in many different situations. ON the pump subject in this forum there are websites posted that comparre the different pumps if you are interested in learning more about it.
Julie