Hello everyone, Type 1 diabetic here looking for some tips on getting my act together.

As the title says, I’m a type one diabetic. I was diagnosed almost 10 years ago and I’m now 18. In all the time I’ve had diabetes, I’ve had very poor control over it (My lowest A1C that I’ve ever had was 8.8, that was 3 years ago, my latest A1C was at a 10.0) but lately I’ve been working to try to improve my habits and hopefully change that.

My main problem comes from simply forgetting things. When I eat, 80% of the time or so I’ll forget to either carb count the food, test my blood sugar, or take my insulin, which is probably shocking to hear included with the fact that I’ve been doing this for ten years. I want to get my act together because I’m tired of feeling like shit all the time presumably because of my poor diabetes control.

What kind of positive habits or habit-promoting steps have you successfully-managing diabetics out there put in place to help gain the greatest amount of control of your diabetes?

(Also not quite related to the above post, but for anybody that uses Discord, would anybody be willing to help start up a Discord server for the sub?)