What's the Best Route?

When I was first diagnosed more than 23 years ago certain aspects of diabetes were easy. As a family, we did what the doctor told us to do. Everything seemed to be based off of what the American Diabetes Association recommended. Today, that is not the case.

The last few years I have tried to educate myself as much as possible with reading different material from a range of sources. The one thing I have learned is that so many studies and recommendations contradict each other. 

Every diabetic is different. We participate in different activities and have different dietary choices. 

For me, I have the most success with staying under about 60 grams of carbohydrates a day. My control is tighter and I feel pretty well. When I do this, my blood sugars vary from the mid 70s to about the 130s. 

What's the most confusing and frustrating part is that I have doctors that agree and disagree how I have decided to eat. In the last 7 years, I have been through a total of 5 different doctors. Some of them moved out of my town while others weren't open to hear how I felt about caring for my disease. I would like to find a doctor that is a type 1 diabetic that is fit. I find it very difficult to listen from someone on how to manage health if it seems as though they are not very healthy themselves. Sorry for being honest. They need to have walked in my shoes.

As a patient, I want to be trusted and listened to by my doctors. I don't want to be told that I can eat whatever I want because it can be covered with my pump. My goal is health and longevity with this disease. 

For those of you that are type 1, don't let this disease beat you down! We need to bring attention to it. The general public needs to be educated about what we deal with on a daily basis! Break Diabetes!