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Ditto for me. I don't mind the insulin pens or the blood tests - it is the constant monitoring / science experiment aspect of all this that is exhausting. Even
by dfraser992 8y ago
Ditto for me. I don't mind the insulin pens or the blood tests - it is the constant monitoring / science experiment aspect of all this that is exhausting. Even if I had a phone app that graphed my levels for the past 24 hours, counted carbs for me, and calculated insulin doses, I'd still find it all irritating and would slack off on the 24 hr a day 'mindfulness' it takes.
Even then, I am still going to die earlier than a non-diabetic. So why should I kill myself for 50 years going to the n-th degree when n-1 or n-2 is ok enough? That is my justification for keeping h1bc below 8 or 9, never mind below 7.
All the effort into projects like tech for snorting insulin is just surface stuff, much like all the glitz in the IT world that accomplishes superficial stuff (but takes lots of VC money). I am reminded of the CueCat... 30 years ago, they said there'd be a cure by now. I am still waiting and am going to die before it ever happens. Snortable insulin is sexy, but not that useful in the grand scheme of things.