# Traveling with diabetes: lessons and questions from our first 3 months

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/traveling-with-diabetes-lessons-and-questions-from-our-first-3-months/4945>\
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA\
**Tags:** travel\
**Created:** [September 10, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/traveling-with-diabetes-lessons-and-questions-from-our-first-3-months/4945 "2018-09-10T14:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/traveling-with-diabetes-lessons-and-questions-from-our-first-3-months/4945/8 "2018-09-16T00:44:13Z")

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My first report is here:

> [@Travel surprise: dosing for sandwiches in hot weather](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/travel-surprise-dosing-for-sandwiches-in-hot-weather/5002):
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> While traveling this summer, we encountered surprising problems in dosing for homemade sandwiches, leading to underdoses of 25-30%. When you move from place to place often (say, after 2-3 days), it is often convenient to rely on sandwiches on the way, or the first day after arrival. But, as we all know, it is pretty difficult to reliably gauge the amount of carbs in widely differing sandwiches provided by one-off delis or snacks (as opposed to well-known chains). Since we were traveling along n…

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