Hi to all,
I'm new here (obviously!) so thought I better start off with an intro thing.
First off I would like to say, I am not much of a people person and find it VERY hard to talk about things or to put my thoughts into words, because of this sometimes what I type comes out completely wrong and can be misunderstood as me being cheeky/rude/arogant or whatever. That is not my intention, so please don't take anything I say personally.
A wee bit about me ...
Im 34, was diagnosed in 1987 and put on pork mixtard 30 ..... fast forward 18yrs and I was changed over to hypurin porcine 30/70. Last August changed over to levimir and novorapid, which gave me quite bad side effects (more about that later) so now, since June, am on porcine isophane and neutral.
When I was diagnosed (just before my 12th B'day) I was bullied in school for being a "junkie" regularly got my head smacked off walls etc lost the few friends I did have because they didn't want to be associated with the person being bullied lest they get bullied too, got in with the "wrong crowd" after school, stopped telling people I had diabetes, never checked my BG's or took my insulin for a long time, done everything any normal person, regardless of diabetic or not, would not do. I am lucky to be alive today and it is only thanks to getting pregnant with my daughter that I am here...
I am not telling this for sympathy, but simply so you might understand where my issues of trust and being unable to approach/talk to people come from - I've never had a "best friend" nor anyone I can talk to and have dealt with everything on my own since I was 14 (and I think this might actually be the first time I have said any of this to anyone other than my dogs :shock: )
My daughter and life saver is aged 12, also with type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed in March 2006. Currently on Levimir and novorapid and doing really well on it (the reason I changed over to that...)
I have joined this forum as there seems to be a lot of porcine users, which seems to be a rarity among other forums.
Anyway, sorry about the length of this post, it really only started out as a hello lol
Fiona x
I'm new here (obviously!) so thought I better start off with an intro thing.
First off I would like to say, I am not much of a people person and find it VERY hard to talk about things or to put my thoughts into words, because of this sometimes what I type comes out completely wrong and can be misunderstood as me being cheeky/rude/arogant or whatever. That is not my intention, so please don't take anything I say personally.
A wee bit about me ...
Im 34, was diagnosed in 1987 and put on pork mixtard 30 ..... fast forward 18yrs and I was changed over to hypurin porcine 30/70. Last August changed over to levimir and novorapid, which gave me quite bad side effects (more about that later) so now, since June, am on porcine isophane and neutral.
When I was diagnosed (just before my 12th B'day) I was bullied in school for being a "junkie" regularly got my head smacked off walls etc lost the few friends I did have because they didn't want to be associated with the person being bullied lest they get bullied too, got in with the "wrong crowd" after school, stopped telling people I had diabetes, never checked my BG's or took my insulin for a long time, done everything any normal person, regardless of diabetic or not, would not do. I am lucky to be alive today and it is only thanks to getting pregnant with my daughter that I am here...
I am not telling this for sympathy, but simply so you might understand where my issues of trust and being unable to approach/talk to people come from - I've never had a "best friend" nor anyone I can talk to and have dealt with everything on my own since I was 14 (and I think this might actually be the first time I have said any of this to anyone other than my dogs :shock: )
My daughter and life saver is aged 12, also with type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed in March 2006. Currently on Levimir and novorapid and doing really well on it (the reason I changed over to that...)
I have joined this forum as there seems to be a lot of porcine users, which seems to be a rarity among other forums.
Anyway, sorry about the length of this post, it really only started out as a hello lol
Fiona x
