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<blockquote data-quote="etmsreec" data-source="post: 323615" data-attributes="member: 22426"><p>Hi Jayne,</p><p></p><p>For what it's worth, I was diagnosed in 1981 when I was 12. I was in the second year at secondary school and my mother had been widowed for about 7 months. At that time, I was taken into hospital (Alder Hey in Liverpool) for a week to get used to injections, blood tests, urine tests and to get my sugars in check. As someone else has posted, it was two injections a day, manual mixing, Actrapid and Monotard. There were two or three of us being diagnosed at roughly the same time and the first time one of the other lads did his own injection I was sick in the sink!</p><p>31 years later, things are much easier. I'm happy to do injections myself of course and I'll do them anywhere. It's not something to be ashamed of and it's really easy with insulin pens.</p><p>My only significant advice would be NEVER to reuse needles and to make sure you swap round injection sites too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="etmsreec, post: 323615, member: 22426"] Hi Jayne, For what it's worth, I was diagnosed in 1981 when I was 12. I was in the second year at secondary school and my mother had been widowed for about 7 months. At that time, I was taken into hospital (Alder Hey in Liverpool) for a week to get used to injections, blood tests, urine tests and to get my sugars in check. As someone else has posted, it was two injections a day, manual mixing, Actrapid and Monotard. There were two or three of us being diagnosed at roughly the same time and the first time one of the other lads did his own injection I was sick in the sink! 31 years later, things are much easier. I'm happy to do injections myself of course and I'll do them anywhere. It's not something to be ashamed of and it's really easy with insulin pens. My only significant advice would be NEVER to reuse needles and to make sure you swap round injection sites too. [/QUOTE]
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