chocoholic
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Hi,
Thought I'd introduce myself. My username was obviously chosen pre-diagnosis but Chocoholic is what I'm sticking with. Though a Kit-Kat Chunky is a dim and distant memory,at least my name helps those choccie memories stay alive.(I do treat myself occasionally to a little Lindt 70% Cocoa choccie and actually prefer that to milk choccie now).
Enough talk about chocolate....mmm.....Terry's Chocolate Ginger....sorry, I digress.......DIABETES....well, where do I start?
I was diagnosed roughly 5 years ago. I went to give blood for the first time at a donoring session and jokingly said to my husband "I bet they won't want mine". Correct. I was pulled aside by a doctor and told to get myself to the docs. though he didn't tell me why.
I was told by telephone, on returning from a holiday, that I was diabetic and it came as a total shock. 10 months previously I'd been wrongly diagnosed with asthma. In actual fact it turned out I was very anaemic and it was that that was making me so tired and out of breath, not asthma. Unfortunately I had just spent 10 months using a steroid inhaler and to this day I wonder if it was that that brought on my diabetes. I was not overweight and apart from the anaemia was never really ill. Of course, it could be that the iron tablets that I was put on for the anaemia played a part in me getting diabetes. I was wrongly told to double my dosage of iron and within hours I was very ill....vomiting, severe diarrhoea etc.
So all in all, I'm not really sure which might have played the bigger part in damaging my pancreas but I'm pretty damned sure it was one of those two things.
I have to inject insulin twice daily and although I'm pretty good with what I eat (I love cooking, so I still get a buzz out of creating tasty food)my readings are seldom "on an even keel". I have been down as low as 2.9 and as high as 21.4. I'm sure a lot of it is down to family health worries.(Won't bore you with the details but trust me my family should have a season ticket for the local hospital!)
I thought it would be useful to join a forum with like-minded diabetics......for sharing info and experiences of diabetes....and for "escaping" for some light banter.
As you'll have gathered by now, I can rabbit for England. I may have forgotten to actually say "Hello!"
Look forward to chatting to you all.
Thought I'd introduce myself. My username was obviously chosen pre-diagnosis but Chocoholic is what I'm sticking with. Though a Kit-Kat Chunky is a dim and distant memory,at least my name helps those choccie memories stay alive.(I do treat myself occasionally to a little Lindt 70% Cocoa choccie and actually prefer that to milk choccie now).
Enough talk about chocolate....mmm.....Terry's Chocolate Ginger....sorry, I digress.......DIABETES....well, where do I start?
I was diagnosed roughly 5 years ago. I went to give blood for the first time at a donoring session and jokingly said to my husband "I bet they won't want mine". Correct. I was pulled aside by a doctor and told to get myself to the docs. though he didn't tell me why.
I was told by telephone, on returning from a holiday, that I was diabetic and it came as a total shock. 10 months previously I'd been wrongly diagnosed with asthma. In actual fact it turned out I was very anaemic and it was that that was making me so tired and out of breath, not asthma. Unfortunately I had just spent 10 months using a steroid inhaler and to this day I wonder if it was that that brought on my diabetes. I was not overweight and apart from the anaemia was never really ill. Of course, it could be that the iron tablets that I was put on for the anaemia played a part in me getting diabetes. I was wrongly told to double my dosage of iron and within hours I was very ill....vomiting, severe diarrhoea etc.
So all in all, I'm not really sure which might have played the bigger part in damaging my pancreas but I'm pretty damned sure it was one of those two things.
I have to inject insulin twice daily and although I'm pretty good with what I eat (I love cooking, so I still get a buzz out of creating tasty food)my readings are seldom "on an even keel". I have been down as low as 2.9 and as high as 21.4. I'm sure a lot of it is down to family health worries.(Won't bore you with the details but trust me my family should have a season ticket for the local hospital!)
I thought it would be useful to join a forum with like-minded diabetics......for sharing info and experiences of diabetes....and for "escaping" for some light banter.
As you'll have gathered by now, I can rabbit for England. I may have forgotten to actually say "Hello!"
Look forward to chatting to you all.
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