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Thank you Everybody for your support and changing my harsh perspective a bit. Especially thank you @noblehead for mentioning KFC! That makes me feel better a bit :)

I just ate a whole McDonalds set (a hamburger and fries) and ice cream. At least the coke was "zero". For more than a year, since the diagnosis with T1 I was eating all healthy, possibly less carbs, limiting my sugar intake, fighting my sweet tooth. Recently I have troubles with motivation for...

HAHAHA I can imagine everybody's face with you being so open about weed - diabetes can make you a true rebel ;)

Thanks @Eldorado! I heard about Libre Freestyle, but for me it's expensive and I heard it's not too precise when BG is changing fast. But frankly, I feel like soon I'll get annoyed enough not to care about any disadvantage. Plus it looks so bionic ;)

Without a sense of humor and ongoing support like the one below, I don't think I would survive the first weeks after diagnosis. One of my friends, when he learned I got diabetes, sent me me the Blood Sugar Sex Magik album of Red Hot ChiIi Peppers - it kept my spirit up ;) do you maybe have...

My biggest yes is losing a lot of weight. I always thought I'd need a magical something to do this and then after to keep the healthy lifestyle. Before I was diagnosed I lost over 20kg and now, after 8 months I still haven't gained anything. Second yes is re-discovery of sports, especially since...

Regarding the time needed for high sugars consequences to develop, it can be relatively fast. Nobody know for how long my sugars were bad, before I got diagnosed, but let's count it was for around 6 months, maybe a bit more. two months before diagnosis I got my first neuropathy symptoms (and my...

Hi, I'm type 1, but I'm trying to keep my carbs low, so let me share my way with it: I don't know if it's available in UK, but here in Bosnia we have my favorite, almost no-carbs (yet, as full of calories as normal) stevia-sweetened chocolate. I don't like how stevia tastes, and this is the...

I feel your pain, and I keep my fingers crossed for you, I can imagine how difficult for you it must be to try to stay "normal", but deep down knowing it's not like that anymore. If you want to hear some "boring adult lectures", just let me know, but I have a feeling you already know it all...

Oh, so sorry to hear that, I know it's a terrible thing when your hair gives you such problems additionally to all the things that are coming with being new to diabetes. Just after diagnosis I realized my hair started to fall out in large amounts and it go to look very bad. I went to my...

I had 28, lost over 22 kg, hba1c=12%. My sight completely changed, I couldn't wear my glasses and I couldn't see too much either (fun times ;) Thirsty all the time, I was even anxious when the source of water was away, peeing accordingly. The fun part was, I got to the GP and they sent me to...

thank you everybody for good words and advice. The readings are both before food and after. It's hard to keep it like this while traveling, but when anywhere stationary for more than a day I'm managing to keep it this way. Or maybe I'm just lucky.

@copepod Thank you for the book suggestion, looks really extensive! I use Diabetes:M app for my phone or every time I try to google new food. Regarding searching for advise, Polish community is supportive, but my case is a bit different, for instance I don't go with Polish national health care...

Hi, just after I wrote all this something happened with my account and I couldn't change the password, so here is my new account - but the same me. Thank you for your words of support. That means a lot to me. Yes I think I'll do all the tests and visits privately, but it will take about 3...