A Cheerful Life

As I have anticipated in my previous article, the discovery of Freestyle Libre gave me a fantastic possibility to keep track of my glycaemia in a more efficient way, but it also paved the way for the beginning of a more carefree period of my life in terms of diabetes management, probably caused by a slight excess of lighteartedness and inexperience.

I mean, I never went beyond the therapeutic reccomendations which my doctors gave me, and somehow my A1c never went higher than 6.9%. My TIR was something between 70% and 80%, which is not exceptional, but, at least according to the doctors, enough to satisfy their requirements. A little voice from my mind was telling me that those numbers weren't really enough to ensure to myself a long and healthy life, but I decided to shut it off. And so my relative carefreeness run free for some few years.

I never adopted particularly bad habits in terms of diabetes management, as it wasn't really a natural tendency for me. However, the times when, for example, I decided to go out for dinner with some friends of mine and eat tremendously huge amounts of food (I've always had a good appetite...) were numerous, and the result would obviously be terrible BG values overnight. And the worst part was that they didn't even bother me that much. A further example which comes to my mind was my usual post-breakfast huge glycaemic spikes: my doctors told me they were normal and I blindly believed them, allowing my blood glucose levels to reach tremendous values only because I knew they would have dropped later. There were even some days when I didn't scan my Libre for very long hours. And the more I looked around myself, the more I noticed that this was the behaviour of the largest part of the diabetic community, if not worse: this made me feel kind of justified and relaxed, sharing the motto "you have to live your life at its fullest".

But as days passed, the voice in my head became louder, suggesting me that I wasn't doing all I could have done to treat my condition in the best possible way. Right at that time, in the early stages of 2020, the worldwide situation changed dramatically, catapulting us into the tragic pandemic we are still facing up to this day. And, paradoxally, that period was the one which allowed me to actually start to study more on my disease and on some more effective ways to take care of it. Right during those terrible months, the transition from a normal diabetes management to an incredible one became.

Are you curious to know more about this successive period of my life? All you have to do is to keep reading my website!