Recent Content by Manicman68

I am aware of those details and I appreciate you taking the time to respond but it doesn't actually answer my question. After forty years of trying to be the same as everybody else I'm finally going to admit that I'm not. So I need to know the not-so-philosophical answer to the question "Now what?"

I understand, through the advocacy pack produced by d.u.k., that diabetes can be classified as a disability but the one question that the pack doesn't answer is "How do I go about registering myself as disabled?" Does anybody know how to go about this and what do I need to do now?

All my ink has arrived in the last couple of years. Everyone present has given the best advice there is. To aid healing though use Bepanthen cream 3 times a day. Locks the ink in a treat!

My left shoulder froze about six years ago but with physio and cortisone injections it recovered. My right has been getting progressively worse to the stage where I need keyhole surgery to sort it. Hope the physio route works for you, it hurts like hell but it's the best way.

So it seems I'm depressed. Surprise. Not. Got a box full of Sertraline tablets and a list of phone numbers as long as my arm. All I want to do is hide. But the tablets may yet help and I may start to push myself hard again. Thanks for your support all it is appreciated.

Thanks to all for your kind responses. I'm going to see my GP tomorrow (Friday) and have spoken to my DSN, the star that is Juliette, a couple of times already. Today has not been a good one. It took me four hours to build up to leaving the house in order to visit a cash machine and book a...

It doesn't seem to be any one thing that will break me. It can be the dogs barking or forgetting to buy some cereal for my wife. I have gone from being relatively fit to a sloth and I can't break the cycle (please excuse the musical quote I can't help it). I am not so much becoming self...

I've been a type one diabetic since it was invented and I'm really beginning to wonder whether or not diabetes is affecting my mental health. When I'm doing well I am on top of the world but the slightest problem and I come crashing down into the very depths of despair. I try to fight it off...