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<blockquote data-quote="sugarybibs" data-source="post: 80531" data-attributes="member: 11003"><p>Hi all.When i got diabetes i was only 17.i was always skinny about 7 stone and ended up in hospital about 5 stone because i had type 1 diabetes.I felt ashamed to let anyone (all my family knew of course cos they were at the hospital when i was diagnosed my poor mum and dad were in schok as it was in the early 70s and none of our family had ever heard of so called sugar diabetes as it was called then.No one in our family had it nor even any relatives.I was the so called first diabetic the whole of our neirbourhood had heard of!!I felt ashamed of my condition in them days as i was just starting to go to clubs pubs etc and if i felt a bit hypo i would try and just go home.We never had blood testing machines in the 70s like we have now.So if you felt strange!!you woudnt know if your blood sugar was too high or too low!!You could have taken a few sugar lumps(that what we were advised then)and been high and this could have made things worse :? Anyway the point of this coming out business is it is much easier now than it was when i got diagnosed as a teenager back in the 1970s as know it is advertised more (type 1 i mean).Then people thought you were dying and coudnt do anything normal because people i knew thought was really ill.Anyway i wouldnt tell any new friends i me especially boys becuse i really felt ashamed and embarrased.Maybe because i was young then now i dont give a dam i tell everyone i meet and that i am type 1 not type 2.Then i get all the questions :roll: :roll: then i have to explain the difference</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sugarybibs, post: 80531, member: 11003"] Hi all.When i got diabetes i was only 17.i was always skinny about 7 stone and ended up in hospital about 5 stone because i had type 1 diabetes.I felt ashamed to let anyone (all my family knew of course cos they were at the hospital when i was diagnosed my poor mum and dad were in schok as it was in the early 70s and none of our family had ever heard of so called sugar diabetes as it was called then.No one in our family had it nor even any relatives.I was the so called first diabetic the whole of our neirbourhood had heard of!!I felt ashamed of my condition in them days as i was just starting to go to clubs pubs etc and if i felt a bit hypo i would try and just go home.We never had blood testing machines in the 70s like we have now.So if you felt strange!!you woudnt know if your blood sugar was too high or too low!!You could have taken a few sugar lumps(that what we were advised then)and been high and this could have made things worse :? Anyway the point of this coming out business is it is much easier now than it was when i got diagnosed as a teenager back in the 1970s as know it is advertised more (type 1 i mean).Then people thought you were dying and coudnt do anything normal because people i knew thought was really ill.Anyway i wouldnt tell any new friends i me especially boys becuse i really felt ashamed and embarrased.Maybe because i was young then now i dont give a dam i tell everyone i meet and that i am type 1 not type 2.Then i get all the questions :roll: :roll: then i have to explain the difference [/QUOTE]
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