Kimble73
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
Q, you were belittled by the Diabetic nurse, I am so sick and tired how the health care people treat people with Type 2 diabetes, especially when your grieving, were only human when your stressed because you lose very important people in you life you eat all the wrong foods it's NORMAL that's what I hate about diabetes it doesn't give you a break, when my mom died which is now 31/2 years ago and I am still in grieving and then my brother in law died by suicide in Oct, both are devastating to say the least. And yes I eat Peanut M&m's once in a while, yes it made my sugars go up to 6.3 and yes I gained some wieght back, my doctor didn't put two and two together that it was tremendous grief, humans eat sweets when they go through trauma. If we weren't diabetics we wouldn't get the lecture of eating wrong foods when we're going through hell. It's called comfort food, I'm still traumatized by what happened to my brother in law and now I'm getting anxiety because I know my sugars are off, and not knowing how to cope with this all it's like visious circle. Q I go to counselling, I've been going for a few years now it helps me with the trauma, but not so much with the overwhelming disease diabetes, I find there just isn't the help out there for Type 2 diabetics and all the emotional part you go through it takes a toll on my life. Right now I'm dealing with bladder issues. I am on your side, Lectures do not help, they make you feel ashamed and belittled, we did not ask for this disease. They wouldn't do this to a cancer patient, sorry but this is unexceptable, you poor guy, I sympathize whole heartedly with you losing a grandson no wonder your feeling this way. I'm the same my diet went out the window after all this tryin hard to get it back a bit by bit, but mentally I am suffering still. Hang in there and please get support for your grief, when you get through the initial shock. They say go for counselling3 months after the loss, which I was not told I was still in shock when I went.But it's different for everyone, I still in some shock from my moms passing, we didn't know she was sick. Blessings----- Sandy