Hello everyone,
Please excuse any typos. I’m on mobile but moving on. My name is Amber and I’ve been Type One for 4~ years since I got sick one summer. Definitely a surprise for me. It took 1-2 years to completely get through denial and misinformation about my disease. Initially I was treated like a t2 with pills for a month before I was told I was t1. I was in my prime college life but thankfully I lived a pretty decent lifestyle. No smoking, drinking, etc. I’m average weight, maybe 10-20 lbs overweight at most because I ate very little and now just maintain mostly and I developed a food aversion due to the anxiety of carb counting and blood sugars etc.
Moving forward I got a CGM IN March of 2017 and my A1C went from 8 to 6.1 and then my insurance got switched due to a job change and I had to swap from Novolog to Humalog with would not work with me. I’m aug I was at 7 and felt devestated. I gave up for a while and researched a lot of diets and I always saw Keto but I kept wanting to go vegan or fruit based due to videos I saw online and because Keto scared me since I couldn’t find information I could easily understand about it.
Now I’m ready to seriously sit down and try this diet as a lifestyle me devote my time and effort to it. Money isn’t necessarily an issue for me as I think I’d rather give up random extra stuff for better control and peace of mind.
My old endo wouldn’t take me seriously and ignored my questions and took 6 months to see so I switched recently and with that switch I decided my lifestyle needed a change to. Online I saw there was a community here of diabetics and specifically t1ds so I really hope to build connections and a library of resources for my journey. Thanks!
