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Given the opportunity, are there other treatments you would have liked to have tried?
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Given the opportunity, are there other treatments you would have liked to have tried?

This is Adrian's story of living with Type 1 Diabetes. Here he discusses his thoughts on trying alternative treatment methods such as insulin pump therapy.

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I genuinely don't know, but the more time goes on, the more I can't help thinking that the advent of pump therapy, and that was thought to be, you know, it was something you only off if you'd failed at multiple daily injections. But many, most I think, young people get off of that. Older people don't and there is a sense that for somebody like me, I don't get off of it because I'm doing fine with the alternative and I'm not sure that that's right. You know, you're sort of almost being punished for doing well. And yet another part of me says, actually, do you know what? I don't really want all the hassle of learning a different way of doing it. And there are people that say, I don't want something attached to me 24 hours a day. and my own personal thought still is on that side. I'm quite happy to stick a needle in myself. For me, it's a minimum of five times a day, more often than not, it's six, seven, eight times a day. I do lots of correction injections. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. And I still tend to argue that's better than having yet another, because I've already got one thing stuck to me, the Library sensor, having another thing and, you know, pumps and tubing and so on. And yet the technology is advancing so quickly, the advent of closed loop, that I have no notion that a cure will come along in my lifetime. If it does, it won't be offered to the likes of me and it shouldn't be offered to the likes of me. You know, I just want to get to a good old age, living well with this as I have done so far. But it is tantalizingly close, it's here. The reality is if you have a good closed loop system, you can literally have something that does all the decision making for you. And the progress in that has been remarkable even in the last five years. So yeah, there is stuff to be said on that. And for me, I'd have probably given a different answer a year ago from what I do now. A year ago, I just said, no, I'm fine. I can't be bothered. I'm less sure now. So I don't know how that'll evolve in the coming year.

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