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<blockquote data-quote="leahkian" data-source="post: 1814381" data-attributes="member: 32193"><p>Jshep07 no matter how long you have had diabetes people will always make remarks about what you are doing and that you should not be doing because you are a diabetic. The thing is that someone who smokes would not like it if you said you should not do that you might get cancer, or someone who drinks a lot you might become a alcoholic. People who comment on you having a drink must not know that diabetics can have alcohol but like everyone else we have to watch how much we have. The food is the same diabetics can have a takeaway as long as they can manage there diabetes and not all the time. People who say you use your diabetes as a excuse for mood swings are not worth the time of day and what about them do they never have a mood swing. If they do ask them what their excuse is, at 20 years of age i felt like you wanting to hide it and this was from people who new i was a diabetic. That for me 22 years ago and diabetes was not in the news as much as it is now, i am not trying to say you have it easy now because every diabetic is different and have to find a way to cope with life. At 20 i was always cracking a joke having a laugh but that was sometimes a front as i am a very deep person who will only ask for help when i have hit rock bottom and still am today but not as deep as i was before. I have thought through my life about things that i have done both good and bad, i have hurt people who did not deserve it just because i was selfish and know one was going to tell me how to live my life and in the end it has left me single at 42. I have done good hings as well but like you mood swings happen even now 3 years after my double transplant the mood swings are still there. They are there because of the effects of diabetes for all those years mean i can not do thing i want to do with my children, will not go abroad because i am scared, my parents who are 75 and had her stomach removed about 15 years ago and my dad who has had polio since he was 3 are looking after me but the thing that i can not get my head round is that someone died so i could live and i will have to live with that forever. So if you do not want to tell everyone that you are a diabetic then that is your choice but please carry something on you that will tell people that you are a diabetic. If i had one thing i could change to help diabetics it would be more information on tv as now when they talk about diabetes there is a stigma that you only get diabetes if you are fat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="leahkian, post: 1814381, member: 32193"] Jshep07 no matter how long you have had diabetes people will always make remarks about what you are doing and that you should not be doing because you are a diabetic. The thing is that someone who smokes would not like it if you said you should not do that you might get cancer, or someone who drinks a lot you might become a alcoholic. People who comment on you having a drink must not know that diabetics can have alcohol but like everyone else we have to watch how much we have. The food is the same diabetics can have a takeaway as long as they can manage there diabetes and not all the time. People who say you use your diabetes as a excuse for mood swings are not worth the time of day and what about them do they never have a mood swing. If they do ask them what their excuse is, at 20 years of age i felt like you wanting to hide it and this was from people who new i was a diabetic. That for me 22 years ago and diabetes was not in the news as much as it is now, i am not trying to say you have it easy now because every diabetic is different and have to find a way to cope with life. At 20 i was always cracking a joke having a laugh but that was sometimes a front as i am a very deep person who will only ask for help when i have hit rock bottom and still am today but not as deep as i was before. I have thought through my life about things that i have done both good and bad, i have hurt people who did not deserve it just because i was selfish and know one was going to tell me how to live my life and in the end it has left me single at 42. I have done good hings as well but like you mood swings happen even now 3 years after my double transplant the mood swings are still there. They are there because of the effects of diabetes for all those years mean i can not do thing i want to do with my children, will not go abroad because i am scared, my parents who are 75 and had her stomach removed about 15 years ago and my dad who has had polio since he was 3 are looking after me but the thing that i can not get my head round is that someone died so i could live and i will have to live with that forever. So if you do not want to tell everyone that you are a diabetic then that is your choice but please carry something on you that will tell people that you are a diabetic. If i had one thing i could change to help diabetics it would be more information on tv as now when they talk about diabetes there is a stigma that you only get diabetes if you are fat. [/QUOTE]
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