Been T1 for 18 years and a week now (will be 32 in a few weeks). Went to the doctors in the morning and was admitted to hospital that evening after a fortnight of drinking all the coke my parents could buy and urinating excessively. Initially the nurses BG machines was giving me a glucose level of under 4, they took a vial of blood from my arm, sent it to the labs and it came back 20.
Initially I was on Novolin 30/70 and was on it for years, my pancreas didnt give up working completely for quite a few years but since then my control has fluctuated from good one year to poor the next. Now I'm using Novorapid and Lantus Solostar and in the past month started carb counting. I'm determind to get my a1c level where it should be to help avoid possible complications later on. A friend of mine has lost the sight of one of their eyes recently due to complications and that has been the shot in the arm to get myself sorted.
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