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    Living WITH A Type 1 DIAGNOSIS

    Feb 07, 2020 4 minutes
    BY AMY CAMPBELL, MS, RD, LDN, CDE

    Have you recently been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? If so, you might feel a lot of different emotions right now. And you might wonder what having type 1 diabetes means for you—how are you going to handle taking insulin, pricking your fingers or counting carbohydrates? Can you play sports? Can you travel? Can you ever eat ice cream again? How will having diabetes affect your life at work, school or home? Can you have children? Why did you get this condition in the first place? And will it ever go away?

    There are so many questions that pop up when you are hit with a diagnosis like this, and it can be really hard knowing where to

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