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- Type of diabetes
- LADA
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hello all,
So I spoke with my dsn on Tuesday and she suggested I try ‘eating normally’ (her words)- she means compared to the low carb low cal I’m currently doing. This would be to see what my blood sugar does so they have a better idea of how my pancreas is functioning (in addition to the repeat c pep test). My blood sugar has been awful since- I’m still not overdoing it in carbs and staying under 80g a day, but taking more cals - 1500-2000- and I just feel like c***! My blood sugar being high is also making me feel irritable and tearful as well as physically rubbish. I get why she is suggesting doing this- because I can’t stick to a 1000 cal diet forever, it isn’t sustainable, and I’ll run out of weight to lose (I’ve already lost a lot but I was obese so I needed to) and I will be starting insulin at some point soon….
but it just got to me this evening and I started crying about it all- just feeling very overwhelmed about having type 1- it’s starting to hit me that my life will be hugely impacted. my partner just wants to ‘fix things’ and feels helpless when he knows there is nothing he can do to ‘make it better’ and that leaves me feeling guilty that I’m worrying him and he gets frustrated because he just doesn’t understand.
I’ll probably call the dsn on Monday and tell her about running so high since I’ve upped my food and carb intake. Tomorrow I’m giving my pancreas a break and going back to what was working for me. Just wanted to vent to people who get it and won’t think I’m being a big cry baby.
So I spoke with my dsn on Tuesday and she suggested I try ‘eating normally’ (her words)- she means compared to the low carb low cal I’m currently doing. This would be to see what my blood sugar does so they have a better idea of how my pancreas is functioning (in addition to the repeat c pep test). My blood sugar has been awful since- I’m still not overdoing it in carbs and staying under 80g a day, but taking more cals - 1500-2000- and I just feel like c***! My blood sugar being high is also making me feel irritable and tearful as well as physically rubbish. I get why she is suggesting doing this- because I can’t stick to a 1000 cal diet forever, it isn’t sustainable, and I’ll run out of weight to lose (I’ve already lost a lot but I was obese so I needed to) and I will be starting insulin at some point soon….
but it just got to me this evening and I started crying about it all- just feeling very overwhelmed about having type 1- it’s starting to hit me that my life will be hugely impacted. my partner just wants to ‘fix things’ and feels helpless when he knows there is nothing he can do to ‘make it better’ and that leaves me feeling guilty that I’m worrying him and he gets frustrated because he just doesn’t understand.
I’ll probably call the dsn on Monday and tell her about running so high since I’ve upped my food and carb intake. Tomorrow I’m giving my pancreas a break and going back to what was working for me. Just wanted to vent to people who get it and won’t think I’m being a big cry baby.