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<blockquote data-quote="Tot85" data-source="post: 1192762" data-attributes="member: 108173"><p>Hey All, I've been a member on here for a while but to date have never posted but reading this very interesting thread I thought I'd share my experience with diabetes, apologies for the length of it!</p><p></p><p>I was diagnosed T1 about 4 years ago now when I was 26 and it may sound strange but after the diagnosis I kind of thought of myself as being lucky; I'd been quite ill for a while, lost nearly 3 stone, went to the docs for a blood test and on the follow up appointment was rushed to hospital with early stage ketoacidosis.</p><p></p><p>Not lucky in the sense that I'd been diagnosed with an illness but lucky that if I had to have any illness it was one that I could pretty much control the majority of the time.</p><p></p><p>I've always had the attitude that 'it really could be so much worse' which I think has helped me to accept it and to not ever let it take over my life and to get me down.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps I'm lucky in that I'm a fairly positive person but I do pretty much live a normal life, sure I have to test 5 times a day, my finger tips and backside are like a pin cushion and I have to inject everytime I eat anything with the remotest amount of carbs or sugar in but I do just think how much worse it could be!</p><p></p><p>I realise that I'm probably lucky in having a generally positive outlook but i was wondering if anyone else ever felt that way; not lucky in the usual sense but fortunate that their illness is generally under their own control? (apart from of course those darn random high readings, random low blood sugars where you would quite literally eat the entire contents of your kitchen cupboards, having to carry dextrose or Lucozade everywhere you go and of course constantly being told by people that you can't eat cake or sweets!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tot85, post: 1192762, member: 108173"] Hey All, I've been a member on here for a while but to date have never posted but reading this very interesting thread I thought I'd share my experience with diabetes, apologies for the length of it! I was diagnosed T1 about 4 years ago now when I was 26 and it may sound strange but after the diagnosis I kind of thought of myself as being lucky; I'd been quite ill for a while, lost nearly 3 stone, went to the docs for a blood test and on the follow up appointment was rushed to hospital with early stage ketoacidosis. Not lucky in the sense that I'd been diagnosed with an illness but lucky that if I had to have any illness it was one that I could pretty much control the majority of the time. I've always had the attitude that 'it really could be so much worse' which I think has helped me to accept it and to not ever let it take over my life and to get me down. Perhaps I'm lucky in that I'm a fairly positive person but I do pretty much live a normal life, sure I have to test 5 times a day, my finger tips and backside are like a pin cushion and I have to inject everytime I eat anything with the remotest amount of carbs or sugar in but I do just think how much worse it could be! I realise that I'm probably lucky in having a generally positive outlook but i was wondering if anyone else ever felt that way; not lucky in the usual sense but fortunate that their illness is generally under their own control? (apart from of course those darn random high readings, random low blood sugars where you would quite literally eat the entire contents of your kitchen cupboards, having to carry dextrose or Lucozade everywhere you go and of course constantly being told by people that you can't eat cake or sweets!) [/QUOTE]
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