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<blockquote data-quote="H4yi3y" data-source="post: 2440950" data-attributes="member: 548735"><p>Hi. I’m 19 & I’ve been in the same position as you since I was in secondary school. It’s a hard cycle to break believe me I know. I went to see my clinic nurse for the first time in two years the other day and my hbA1c wasn’t readable. Because you’ve had pretty good control for all that time my advice would be not to let yourself sink into a deeper hole because your at a point where you can pull your self out of it before it starts getting dangerous. I didn’t check my blood for over a year until two days ago and it feels great to start again. I used to hate it when people would say it to me but I’ll say it to you now that I know its true, you will seriously damage yourself if you let it get that bad, you don’t believe it until it happens though. I have nerve damage in my eyes and my legs and I’m only 19, it sucks but it’s sort of reversible at this point. I’ve found that going to see a nurse or a diabetes clinician is always a good way to get yourself motivated again because just talking about it with them might give you the push you need to get going again. Or getting a new meter or something like that, I just started using the libre sensors again and accu-chek also brought out a cool new meter so that’s made me want to check my blood again you could see if you could get a new meter to encourage yourself to check! And apps help too, do you have the mysugr app? If not you should get it it’s so good, you can add your blood results, carbs, insulin, it even calculates how much insulin you should take with food if you set it up, and it gives you targets and challenges to keep you going, it’s good you should try it if you haven’t! Anyway, you’re not alone in this so let’s pick it back up together, we can do it [emoji1320]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="H4yi3y, post: 2440950, member: 548735"] Hi. I’m 19 & I’ve been in the same position as you since I was in secondary school. It’s a hard cycle to break believe me I know. I went to see my clinic nurse for the first time in two years the other day and my hbA1c wasn’t readable. Because you’ve had pretty good control for all that time my advice would be not to let yourself sink into a deeper hole because your at a point where you can pull your self out of it before it starts getting dangerous. I didn’t check my blood for over a year until two days ago and it feels great to start again. I used to hate it when people would say it to me but I’ll say it to you now that I know its true, you will seriously damage yourself if you let it get that bad, you don’t believe it until it happens though. I have nerve damage in my eyes and my legs and I’m only 19, it sucks but it’s sort of reversible at this point. I’ve found that going to see a nurse or a diabetes clinician is always a good way to get yourself motivated again because just talking about it with them might give you the push you need to get going again. Or getting a new meter or something like that, I just started using the libre sensors again and accu-chek also brought out a cool new meter so that’s made me want to check my blood again you could see if you could get a new meter to encourage yourself to check! And apps help too, do you have the mysugr app? If not you should get it it’s so good, you can add your blood results, carbs, insulin, it even calculates how much insulin you should take with food if you set it up, and it gives you targets and challenges to keep you going, it’s good you should try it if you haven’t! Anyway, you’re not alone in this so let’s pick it back up together, we can do it [emoji1320] [/QUOTE]
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