Tudiabetes is turning five this year. A blog prompt from tudiabetes is as follows: Reflect on where you were the year TuDiabetes began (2007) and where you are now.
My initial response was “no difference” in terms of my relationship with diabetes, what I’ve learned, and what I’ve done. But that’s not really true. Can five years really go by in a life without a person moving, growing, gaining some sort of insight, or changing in at least some small way?
In 2007 I was fresh off my second insulin pump (due to atrophy), and probably still adjusting to multiple daily injections. I was taking Lantus once a day at bedtime and NovoLog with meals. I would take my NovoLog just before eating or even partway into the meal. My kids were 6 and 5 years old at the time and kept me busy!
Now I’m taking some of my Lantus dose in the morning and the rest at bedtime, which gives me better round-the-clock coverage. I heard about the research showing that taking rapid-acting insulin 15 minutes before meals lowers A1C and I consistently do this now (I actually titrate the time according to my blood glucose – if I’m low I only take it about 5 minutes before eating, if I’m in range I take it 15 minutes before, and if I’m high I take it 20 or even 30 minutes before).
The biggest shocker to me is that I started a (pretty intense) workout class. I have always hated exercising with a group, yet now I’m doing it and even enjoying it (it helps that everyone else is suffering as much as I am and there are no mirrors).
How have things changed for you in the past five years?