be real nice to hear from someone who feels the way i do, since theres no-one else that really gives a [ word removed ]! im bit streessedout the way things in my life have turned out, Diabetes has held me back alot, career and lifestyle wise runnin out of ideas and could do with a better positive inspirational outlook on my life. Like to know if there is somethin in this life i could do where my diabetes isnta factor?
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Hi,
I'm sure there's plenty of people who have similar feelings to yourself.
I think many people feel diabetes holds them back, that some people feel they can't do many things because of their diabetes, but in 99.9% of cases it isn't true!
People run marathons and climbs mountains, win gold medals and have many children and happy happy lives!
I saw your previous post too, diabetes is a pain the the [ word removed ].. don't let it get you down!
I've only been diagnosed almost 3 years, and i struggled the first year very badly. When i was 13 my dad died from complications of diabetes. So it's especially hard for me to carry around the disease that teamed with alcohol and drug abused lead to a very early death. Took me a while to come to terms with it, but i have.
I worked my butt off to get good results so i could have an insulin pump, i am determined to kick diabetes to the ground and make it work for me.
I have nights out without worry too much about hypo's, i can eat pretty much what i like and be able to control my BG's very well. I'm healthy enough to have children. I have all 4 limbs, good eyes and working kidneys.
Diabetes is always going to be with you, until they find a cure. It's mighty hard to find something to do where your diabetes isn't a factor, as it will always be. Just need to find something you can do where you and diabetes can see eye to eye
You seem very angry and resentful with your diabetes, which is very common despite how long you've had it.
Have a good read around the forum, there are many people who can emphasise with you.
all the best
I'm sure there's plenty of people who have similar feelings to yourself.
I think many people feel diabetes holds them back, that some people feel they can't do many things because of their diabetes, but in 99.9% of cases it isn't true!
People run marathons and climbs mountains, win gold medals and have many children and happy happy lives!
I saw your previous post too, diabetes is a pain the the [ word removed ].. don't let it get you down!
I've only been diagnosed almost 3 years, and i struggled the first year very badly. When i was 13 my dad died from complications of diabetes. So it's especially hard for me to carry around the disease that teamed with alcohol and drug abused lead to a very early death. Took me a while to come to terms with it, but i have.
I worked my butt off to get good results so i could have an insulin pump, i am determined to kick diabetes to the ground and make it work for me.
I have nights out without worry too much about hypo's, i can eat pretty much what i like and be able to control my BG's very well. I'm healthy enough to have children. I have all 4 limbs, good eyes and working kidneys.
Diabetes is always going to be with you, until they find a cure. It's mighty hard to find something to do where your diabetes isn't a factor, as it will always be. Just need to find something you can do where you and diabetes can see eye to eye
You seem very angry and resentful with your diabetes, which is very common despite how long you've had it.
Have a good read around the forum, there are many people who can emphasise with you.
all the best
A friend of mine attended a course about learning to cope with long term conditions - he felt the same as you but found this course useful. If you have a long term condition such as diabetes - its basically about keeping good control of your diabetes. Provided u do that it should not hold you back from anything you wish to do.
I have diabetes type 2 and a heart condition and also a tumour in my neck ( non cancerous) i work within my own levels. I still go out and have a drink , go out doing more or less anything i want to do - i have to recognise my symptoms and deal with them but once i learned to cope with a lot of the symptoms - i found neither of my problems prevent me from doing more or less what i want to do - obviously due to heart prob i wont go do a bungee jump or anything like that but i have a life to live and as many people find out life is far too short to spend it worrying
- make sure u get proper support from a diabetes specialist - the best person to judge what you can and cant do is yourself - you know how you feel inside and we all cope differently - keep smiling and enjoy your life abeit with a few minor adjustments - diabetes or any long term health condition doesnt have to be a death sentence or a total boundary to your life. I know optomists can sometimes be annoying. I had a heart attack 2 years ago at 40 years of age, lost my job etc etc thankfully i survived it - and that my reason for being optomistic i could so easily of got depressed and sat around doing nowt - but in time that would of killed me off faster than diabetes or my heart probs
I have diabetes type 2 and a heart condition and also a tumour in my neck ( non cancerous) i work within my own levels. I still go out and have a drink , go out doing more or less anything i want to do - i have to recognise my symptoms and deal with them but once i learned to cope with a lot of the symptoms - i found neither of my problems prevent me from doing more or less what i want to do - obviously due to heart prob i wont go do a bungee jump or anything like that but i have a life to live and as many people find out life is far too short to spend it worrying
- make sure u get proper support from a diabetes specialist - the best person to judge what you can and cant do is yourself - you know how you feel inside and we all cope differently - keep smiling and enjoy your life abeit with a few minor adjustments - diabetes or any long term health condition doesnt have to be a death sentence or a total boundary to your life. I know optomists can sometimes be annoying. I had a heart attack 2 years ago at 40 years of age, lost my job etc etc thankfully i survived it - and that my reason for being optomistic i could so easily of got depressed and sat around doing nowt - but in time that would of killed me off faster than diabetes or my heart probs
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Jack13 I feel like you a lot, my diabetes was good for the first four years then plagued me ever since.
There are nights I get home, lock myself in the bathroom and cry until there are no tears left.
The trick is to recognise that your diabetes is a factor in everything, its a massive part of your life but learn how to control it not let it control you. Personally I work best with knowledge so I've learnt as much as I can in order to make it easier. The doctors and DSNs can give you the tools but only you can figure out how to use them for you.
If you need someone to talk to feel free to PM me and I'm more than happy to try and help.
Kim
There are nights I get home, lock myself in the bathroom and cry until there are no tears left.
The trick is to recognise that your diabetes is a factor in everything, its a massive part of your life but learn how to control it not let it control you. Personally I work best with knowledge so I've learnt as much as I can in order to make it easier. The doctors and DSNs can give you the tools but only you can figure out how to use them for you.
If you need someone to talk to feel free to PM me and I'm more than happy to try and help.
Kim
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jack13 --- i'm baffled as to how diabetes could have held you back, but that is based largely on my own existence, where diabetes was often an afterthought (and still i held hba1c between 5.5-6.5 for decades).
what i'm really curious about though is what insulins you are taking now, and have taken in the past, and how long you've been diabetic. my personal experience has left me very firmly believing that diabetes can be a walk in the park, but the insulins (and medically unaccepted/un-believed issues tied to them) can be where the real problems lie. those probs, for me and many others, have led to a much more dismal view on how diabetic life is. perhaps its the same with you?
what i'm really curious about though is what insulins you are taking now, and have taken in the past, and how long you've been diabetic. my personal experience has left me very firmly believing that diabetes can be a walk in the park, but the insulins (and medically unaccepted/un-believed issues tied to them) can be where the real problems lie. those probs, for me and many others, have led to a much more dismal view on how diabetic life is. perhaps its the same with you?
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Can really empathise with your post there
Diabetese is a pain the the bum..yes..it makes you depressed and demoralised when your body throws a strop and your sugars go up and down like a yoyo...sometimes it feels like no one understands and gives a fig about you and what your facing but the fact of the matter is the power to change it is in your hands no one elses!
As low as you are...I struggle daily with the grief of losing part of my life...my relationship with food especially with choccie you have to lift yourself out of the rut and hole that you have dug for yourself..
I was there i know how easy it is to blame the illness and not take responsibility for my life and my illness..denial aint just a river in egypt jack..sometimes we need to see that the docs do care and want to help us and sometimes we need to work with our diabetic caregivers and work out a solution and try different things to get that control back...
I consider myself very lucky to be here....I have survived meningitis as a child and two recent bouts of septacemia that almost killed me ...the 2nd bout pushed my body into full blown diabetes and into requiring insulin....I was like you...I was angry and I went into a deep dark place and blamed everyone around me including the illness for the way my life was going...I couldnt see that I was in a pity party of my own making and that I needed to take control otherwise I'd end up really making myself ill..
I had a sickness bug earlier this year that robbed me of my apitite and I couldnt keep food down for over 6 weeks....all i could eat was yoghurt and cup a soups and week lemon squash...that pushed my body into dropping my sugar levels and cholesterol and my readings were fantastic...
But as soon as I discovered I could keep food down slowly but surely my readings crept up...I'm winning again I hit a major road block earlier this week..but this site god bless it gave me the kick up the bum I needed to shake off the doldrums and try some new ways to manage what was happening to me...one of those was leading me to a web page that informed me that the insulin i'm on is not advised with the medication I take for my hypo thyrodism...thanks diabetic nurse you didnt check that one out did you? :thumbdown:
This I will take up with her next friday and will chat to the doctor in my practice about reducing the level of thyroxine i take so that my insulin can work to its full capacity...Ive got my fight back and am back in control mentally and as a result my readings are dropping too...
Stress and low mood as well as other factors can really affect your levels..depression is a hidden symptom of diabetes they dont tell you about at the clinic...its a common side effect as in effect you go into a state of shock...and it mimics the five stages of grief....all the way from denial to acceptance...and you my freind are at the anger phase....same as I was...
We've all been there..it sucks...but we have to get by we have to continue and take responsibility for ourselves and that in the end the only person who can really really help you deal with this is YOU!
Scream cry...throw things if you want too..i bet you felt better getting it all out here..I did earlier this week...venting helps...counselling could too if you are feeling as if you cant cope..no one will judge you....as most of us here know there are great days and there are hide under the duvet until it goes away days....
You are still alive ...somepeople are blind through diabetes lose thier limbs ....in constant pain...what i'm trying to say is there is always someone somewhere worse off than us..and we have to take it into perspective...
Thats my side of the story,,,,I'm coming out from under the duvet and the suns out....today I can cope...and so can you...but you need to want too...
Diabetese is a pain the the bum..yes..it makes you depressed and demoralised when your body throws a strop and your sugars go up and down like a yoyo...sometimes it feels like no one understands and gives a fig about you and what your facing but the fact of the matter is the power to change it is in your hands no one elses!
As low as you are...I struggle daily with the grief of losing part of my life...my relationship with food especially with choccie you have to lift yourself out of the rut and hole that you have dug for yourself..
I was there i know how easy it is to blame the illness and not take responsibility for my life and my illness..denial aint just a river in egypt jack..sometimes we need to see that the docs do care and want to help us and sometimes we need to work with our diabetic caregivers and work out a solution and try different things to get that control back...
I consider myself very lucky to be here....I have survived meningitis as a child and two recent bouts of septacemia that almost killed me ...the 2nd bout pushed my body into full blown diabetes and into requiring insulin....I was like you...I was angry and I went into a deep dark place and blamed everyone around me including the illness for the way my life was going...I couldnt see that I was in a pity party of my own making and that I needed to take control otherwise I'd end up really making myself ill..
I had a sickness bug earlier this year that robbed me of my apitite and I couldnt keep food down for over 6 weeks....all i could eat was yoghurt and cup a soups and week lemon squash...that pushed my body into dropping my sugar levels and cholesterol and my readings were fantastic...
But as soon as I discovered I could keep food down slowly but surely my readings crept up...I'm winning again I hit a major road block earlier this week..but this site god bless it gave me the kick up the bum I needed to shake off the doldrums and try some new ways to manage what was happening to me...one of those was leading me to a web page that informed me that the insulin i'm on is not advised with the medication I take for my hypo thyrodism...thanks diabetic nurse you didnt check that one out did you? :thumbdown:
This I will take up with her next friday and will chat to the doctor in my practice about reducing the level of thyroxine i take so that my insulin can work to its full capacity...Ive got my fight back and am back in control mentally and as a result my readings are dropping too...
Stress and low mood as well as other factors can really affect your levels..depression is a hidden symptom of diabetes they dont tell you about at the clinic...its a common side effect as in effect you go into a state of shock...and it mimics the five stages of grief....all the way from denial to acceptance...and you my freind are at the anger phase....same as I was...
We've all been there..it sucks...but we have to get by we have to continue and take responsibility for ourselves and that in the end the only person who can really really help you deal with this is YOU!
Scream cry...throw things if you want too..i bet you felt better getting it all out here..I did earlier this week...venting helps...counselling could too if you are feeling as if you cant cope..no one will judge you....as most of us here know there are great days and there are hide under the duvet until it goes away days....
You are still alive ...somepeople are blind through diabetes lose thier limbs ....in constant pain...what i'm trying to say is there is always someone somewhere worse off than us..and we have to take it into perspective...
Thats my side of the story,,,,I'm coming out from under the duvet and the suns out....today I can cope...and so can you...but you need to want too...
From Ebony321: Diabetes is always going to be with you, until they find a cure. It's mighty hard to find something to do where your diabetes isn't a factor, as it will always be. Just need to find something you can do where you and diabetes can see eye to eye
Here's the spirit! I loved every single word :clap:
Here's the spirit! I loved every single word :clap:
