Hello friends, and welcome to episode 715 of the Juicebox podcast.

Hello again and welcome back to the Bulb Beginning series. Today is actually the 5th episode but

third installment. The way that happened was that episode 702 was about honey moaning,

706 was about adult diagnosis, and then 711 was supposed to be terminology but it got a little

long so that ended up being terminology part 1 at 711 and terminology part 2 at 712, which makes

today's episode 715 Bulb Beginnings, Fear of Insulin. Please remember while you're listening that

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forward slash juice box. Jenny so far we have I think three episodes of the Bulb Beginnings

series are out today actually as we record this the adult diagnosis one went up and today we

are going to record fear of insulin lows and highs. There were a ton of a ton of feedback that came

from people again. These are statements from people in my private Facebook group when asked what do

you wish you would have known at diagnosis and surrounding the fear of insulin low blood sugars

high blood sugars we got this back. So there's a couple of them here in the beginning it's going to

set the stage that don't really need a response. I was scared of insulin. The next one says seriously

the fear of insulin was real. We were scared of insulin is the next one we had to wake up twice

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