So it's the it's the first thing you think, right? Like, even if they steer wrong, or anything, they're doing wrong, if they can stop, maybe they won't get hurt too badly. I thought of when you first teach someone to drive, you teach them about the brakes. It's funny, I think of when you say that I thought of driving in my mind right away a little differently. You're not gonna like go into a stop sign either, are you? And so what are you going to get from that? I mean, if you're told every time you come to the stop sign that some car is gonna come and swipe you. These are symptoms of low blood sugar, I mean, low blood sugar, low blood sugar, low blood sugar is drilled in. Insulin, I mean, insulin is one of the very, very few medications on the market, that doesn't have a tremendous amount, but really doesn't have any effect on anything else, you know, it's not going to cause your eyeballs to turn green or you know, your toenails to grow extra inches or anything funny, right? It's its side effect, let's call it is hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, if you don't understand how to use insulin, right, so that I mean, it's drilled into you, if you be careful of low blood sugar. The main reason is because the initial education includes so much about hypoglycemia. So I guess let's start with why are people afraid of insulin? What do you think it is? I think Nothing else matters if you're afraid of the insulin. She said that would be the core step one. I asked her if you had a magic wand, and you could change the way people do one thing around diabetes, but would it be and without hesitation, she said, I teach them not to be afraid of insulin. It wasn't until the certified diabetes educator and my daughter's practice, answered a really simple question for me. And as much as I tried to understand bolusing, or understand, you know, the, the peaks and the valleys my daughter was seeing and all the problems we were having. Okay, but the run up to understanding it was reaching out into the world and picking these little ideas and really wrapping my mind around them. And I would say that I've understood diabetes on a different plane for about the last five years or so. So this was a number of years ago back before I think I would quote unquote, say that I started to understand. Say who's your I know, I sometimes have to pause. And most often they've got more time anyway. It's always a nurse practitioner who is? Yeah, yeah. What is it about insulin that people need to understand at its core? And I'll start by telling you that it just a very simple story that that I was in my nurse practitioners office one day, you know, I like to say we're at the end. And always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan for becoming bold with insulin. Please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise. They're designed to be listened to in order. And this one, of course, diabetes, pro tip all about insulin. The second is diabetes pro tip all about MDI. The first one is called diabetes pro tip newly diagnosed or starting over. If you haven't heard the first two, go back and find them. This episode is the third in a series with CD Jenny Smith. Always consult with a healthcare professional before making changes to a healthcare plan. Nothing that you read here constitutes advice medical or otherwise. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors and should not be treated as an authoritative record. This text is the output of AI based transcribing from an audio recording.
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