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<blockquote data-quote="Nemeth32" data-source="post: 1527585" data-attributes="member: 426988"><p>Hey <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/elouisexxx.254991/" target="_blank">elouisexxx </a></strong><a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/elouisexxx.254991/" target="_blank">. <span style="color: #000000">I stumbled on this site and your post by accident and after reading it couldn't help but make an account to reply. I first got type 1 diabetes when I was 9 years old. I've also suffered depression and anxiety most of my life related, only partly to my diabetes. I guess I was fortunate in getting it so early as now (at the age of 25) I can barely remember what living without it is like. I just wanted to say that Kimee is partly right and also very wrong. I could not recommend getting an insulin pump more. It makes your insulin dose so much less of an "event" and after a while it just becomes part of your routine. It allows you so much more flexibility and freedom with your life managing your bolus and basal rate with the flick of a button. Speaking to both of you now (Hey Kimee) distraction and avoidance is not going to help you cope in the long run. You cannot change that you have diabetes, all that has to change is the way you look at it. The first few years are definitely the toughest but talk to professionals and take in as much information as you can. After 5 years of strict dieting, monitoring of my blood sugar levels and letting the disease restrict me, I started to find the freedom between the lines of feeling liberated and "normal" and putting my health at risk. It might take you and your consultants a while to figure out which insulin brand works best for your body, the way things like weather and stress effect your diabetes and the dietary necessities for good control. As someone who got the disease very young I also found out just how much I could let my control slip and push my body (although I'm not advocating it, eventually as humans most diabetics do). The point is once you have that grasp of your disease (each persons diabetes is different) you don't live around it or avoid it, it simply becomes part of your life and fades into the background. Sure I still get down from time to time (mostly very little to do with diabetes these days) and get frustrated if there's a dodgy cannula or I get hi or low when I'm in the middle of doing something. But that's just it, to me now it's just an irritation - like stubbing your toe or the train being delayed: "*** my bs is high, if I've got ketones i'm gonna flip" "pump needs a new battery, gotta get back to the flat". Now at 25, I've lived a reasonably full life so far, I've worked a zillion jobs, taken various substances, drank myself into blackouts and eaten a load of unhealthy **** over the years and yet I sit here with no complications to date because although my blood sugar has been way out of control at times, my overall control has never slipped into that red traffic light (dknow if you have that at your hospital). It's not ideal but its not cancer or m/s. Stay strong, stubborn and try to keep your perspective. You've already done the right thing by reaching out, keep talking to people close to you and talk to your consultant next chance you get about an insulin pump.</span></a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nemeth32, post: 1527585, member: 426988"] Hey [SIZE=4][B][URL='http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/elouisexxx.254991/']elouisexxx [/URL][/B][URL='http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/elouisexxx.254991/']. [COLOR=#000000]I stumbled on this site and your post by accident and after reading it couldn't help but make an account to reply. I first got type 1 diabetes when I was 9 years old. I've also suffered depression and anxiety most of my life related, only partly to my diabetes. I guess I was fortunate in getting it so early as now (at the age of 25) I can barely remember what living without it is like. I just wanted to say that Kimee is partly right and also very wrong. I could not recommend getting an insulin pump more. It makes your insulin dose so much less of an "event" and after a while it just becomes part of your routine. It allows you so much more flexibility and freedom with your life managing your bolus and basal rate with the flick of a button. Speaking to both of you now (Hey Kimee) distraction and avoidance is not going to help you cope in the long run. You cannot change that you have diabetes, all that has to change is the way you look at it. The first few years are definitely the toughest but talk to professionals and take in as much information as you can. After 5 years of strict dieting, monitoring of my blood sugar levels and letting the disease restrict me, I started to find the freedom between the lines of feeling liberated and "normal" and putting my health at risk. It might take you and your consultants a while to figure out which insulin brand works best for your body, the way things like weather and stress effect your diabetes and the dietary necessities for good control. As someone who got the disease very young I also found out just how much I could let my control slip and push my body (although I'm not advocating it, eventually as humans most diabetics do). The point is once you have that grasp of your disease (each persons diabetes is different) you don't live around it or avoid it, it simply becomes part of your life and fades into the background. Sure I still get down from time to time (mostly very little to do with diabetes these days) and get frustrated if there's a dodgy cannula or I get hi or low when I'm in the middle of doing something. But that's just it, to me now it's just an irritation - like stubbing your toe or the train being delayed: "*** my bs is high, if I've got ketones i'm gonna flip" "pump needs a new battery, gotta get back to the flat". Now at 25, I've lived a reasonably full life so far, I've worked a zillion jobs, taken various substances, drank myself into blackouts and eaten a load of unhealthy **** over the years and yet I sit here with no complications to date because although my blood sugar has been way out of control at times, my overall control has never slipped into that red traffic light (dknow if you have that at your hospital). It's not ideal but its not cancer or m/s. Stay strong, stubborn and try to keep your perspective. You've already done the right thing by reaching out, keep talking to people close to you and talk to your consultant next chance you get about an insulin pump.[/COLOR][/URL][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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