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by grep_name 2081 days ago
IME people tend to underestimate most aspects of type 1 diabetes, especially how big an ask it is to suggest someone switch insulins on short notice and out of desperation.

And the bureaucracy is ridiculous. I'm the most financially responsible person I know in my age group, yet I annually get letters threatening to send me to collections for charges I was not warned about by a weird middleman company that I get automatically charged through for medical supplies for my pump. Haven't heard from them this year, and I've called them 4 times so far trying to figure out where the charges went. It turns out they have 3 accounts registered under my name for these things and none of them are the account that my orders have been going to. At this point I'm just going to wait for the annual letter I guess.

Good job on the A1C though. I want to get there someday, but I get sudden massive drops in blood sugar out of nowhere about once every two weeks and it scares the crap out of me. I'm optimistic I'll figure it out eventually though