# Welcome, introduce yourself here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145 "2017-03-22T05:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 611
**Author:** ![arnolfo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/arnolfo/32/3236_2.png) [@arnolfo](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/arnolfo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/611 "2018-02-13T23:34:39Z")
Hello all, To the founders of this site, thank you. Looking forward to reading post from the community. I have a list of other diabetes sites but most of those are heavily commercialized. I’m 54 (almost… 02/29), married and have 2 daughters. I was hit with LADDA when I turned 48. It was an awful experience physically and emotionally. I had no insurance and the first doctor I visited had diagnosed Type 2. I also lost 30 lbs over 4 weeks. Being really physically active – running 5 miles 3x a week as well as 1.5 hours of strength training on those days, those 30lbs was all muscle. And I really had no info on what to do other than the crappy 10th generation copy of a 3 page general TD2 guidelines the doc gave me. It took another several months to get the right diagnosis from an Endo and then another 6 months to gain a bit of that weight back after he put me on the right course of action. That whole year I could not get insured as no one would insure me so the out of pocket was huge - bloodwork, insulin, other meds, test strips… Fast forward to 2018. Even though I gained decent insurance through the ACA over the last few years my wife and I are again without insurance for 2018. I could not afford the extra $1000 a month increase from BCBSofIL - going from $800 to $1800 a month. So, I’m looking for ways to survive sans insurance. Discovering FUdiabetes I’m hoping to gain insight into how others cope. Seems there’s quite a big community here. I’ve not come across many LADDA communities, so looking forward to reading how others handle their LADDA. [split into [Is it OK to order insulin from Canada?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/is-it-ok-to-order-insulin-from-canada/3489/)] -a --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145)._