Recent Content by lenaiiyy

Hi jade, Sorry to hear you’ve been struggling. To be honest, it’s a ***** of a disease, and I’m saying this from my own experience, and watching my mother live with it (she’s been type 1 diabetic since the age of 5) and go through the horror of complications that is caused by diabetes - heart...

Hi Paul [emoji4] welcome welcome! Hope everything is going well and that you aren’t too overwhelmed by everything. This place is great, everybody is so supportive, and there’s a ton of info here as well!

Thanks! My endo said that too, we are hoping that once it’s been some time the symptoms won’t be worse, and they want me to try and hold my hba1c at where it is now to see. Recently went to have my eyes tested (they’re checking for everything now) and so far as they can see, no retinopathy...

I was told that it would make me put on weight too. It’s so frustrating, my diet I seem to have down pat, but usually I’m pretty active and used to go to the gym 3 times a week, plus I used to box and kickbox which I was hoping to get back into this year (I went to Bali last year on a major...

Thanks EllieM! I’m hoping so too. I was never told about diabetic care plans until I recently went to a new GP, so we are waiting on my old GP to send over my medical file so we can get down to business. Hoping it all goes well

Thanks for the tip! I’ll go out and get some, have been told that this can help also [emoji4]

If only I’d known then what I know now! Sure would love to punch that lenaiiyy in the face [emoji23] as azure said, I was driving blind - with no brakes as it was. Thank you everybody that replied to this - happy to say I have a far better handle and understanding of how it all goes and works...

YES!!!

Sorry, probably should have clarified! When I’m anxious, everything is running about five times faster than normal, emotions, my movement, etc. and the more anxious I get, the more jumbled and confused my thoughts and speech become and I can’t string or form a proper sentence together, and I’ve...

Hi Motherhen2014! Good to know I’m not alone in this! I think we have a cradle from when my mum needed it, might be time to dust it off and give it a go. Are you on any medication for the pain, if you don’t mind me asking? I feel like mine don’t really swell up as they used to, it’s more so...

Anxiety makes me high. Sadness makes me low.

Hi guys! So I’m new to this forum I’m 25 years old and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes back in 2013, just before my 21st birthday. My mother is also a type 1 diabetic (since the age of 5, now 48) and has had many of the complications, to name a few, dialysis, amputation and heart problems...

Hi guys! Thank you all for replying! @TorqPenderloin - no I don't carb count :\ usually I'd test about 6-8 times a day - before and after breakfast, lunch time, mid-afternoon, before/after dinner and before bed. On the days that I box (Mon and Wed), I tend to forgo the lunch time insulin does...

Hi everybody :) Newbie here - my mum suggested I find a forum and so far really enjoying it! IBit of background - I was diagnosed early 2013 just before my 21st birthday, and even though mum is a type 1 diabetic (since 5yo) so is able to help me out and what not, still really struggling to...