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How Do you manage your CFRD?
- Thread starter anonymous
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None ? Depending on degree, it's either that, pills, perhaps (if it isn't severe) or ignoring it (not a good idea, probably). Maybe you can look into a pancreas transplant or other experimental treatment, once those come full circle.
Do you have an insulin pump? I plan to get one, as the needling is by far the worst part (mere carb counting is just annoying, not bang-head-against-the-wall annoying).
As an aside, CF diabetes is one of the worst pains in the butt this illness can give you. (Other than, perhaps, a literal pain in the butt from CF-related arthritis.) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Do you have an insulin pump? I plan to get one, as the needling is by far the worst part (mere carb counting is just annoying, not bang-head-against-the-wall annoying).
As an aside, CF diabetes is one of the worst pains in the butt this illness can give you. (Other than, perhaps, a literal pain in the butt from CF-related arthritis.) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
ClashPunk82
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I do the same, carb counting. Sometimes I get annoyed because I would just like to enjoy a meal without having to worry about insulin and taking pills. But yet again I am able to eat whatever I want and just adjust my insulin. It's better than having a restricted diet. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
JennifersHope
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Right now I am doing sliding scale Regular insulin in addition to Metformin. They recenty added the insulin because I am on high doses of steroids and unable to keep my sugars under control.
In the long term, if I have to stay on insulin, there is no way that I am going stay with the sliding scale, to me, this is a reactive mode instead of pre-emptive. Counting carbs seems like the most logical approach to me...so I will have to see.. through the idea of counting carbs doesn't appeal to me, I think in general it is much healthier for my body to not have periods of high sugars at all....
Jennifer
33 w/CF and Addison's
In the long term, if I have to stay on insulin, there is no way that I am going stay with the sliding scale, to me, this is a reactive mode instead of pre-emptive. Counting carbs seems like the most logical approach to me...so I will have to see.. through the idea of counting carbs doesn't appeal to me, I think in general it is much healthier for my body to not have periods of high sugars at all....
Jennifer
33 w/CF and Addison's