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<blockquote data-quote="hardymargaret" data-source="post: 765864" data-attributes="member: 118996"><p>I struggled for years with coming to terms with how my diabetes made me feel both physically and mentally. Eventually when I asked for help I was put on a Daphne course and this helped me a great deal but led to me being off work for over a month as I realised just how depressed I felt. A future of constantly thinking about what I ate and how to manage my illness was not what I hoped for my future and I think I went through a sort of grieving process. After a couple of years of being ok I then began to have poor results with my hba1c due to having high readings most mornings above 20. My doctor advised me to get up through the night to check my levels for a couple of weeks it turned out that my readings were fine around 3am but went up after that. At my next/last chec kup I took a print out of my readings to my doctor and again asked for help and he changed my base insulin and hey presto success at last. I even see single figures some mornings. This has led me to try harder with my control and even though I sometimes feel very down and fed up its not so constant as it used to be. I feel that I have been on a long journey in coming to terms with my diabetes and wish that I had pushed for help a bit earlier but sometimes at my annual check up I always felt that I had failed once again to improve but I now feel that it was health care that I received that failed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hardymargaret, post: 765864, member: 118996"] I struggled for years with coming to terms with how my diabetes made me feel both physically and mentally. Eventually when I asked for help I was put on a Daphne course and this helped me a great deal but led to me being off work for over a month as I realised just how depressed I felt. A future of constantly thinking about what I ate and how to manage my illness was not what I hoped for my future and I think I went through a sort of grieving process. After a couple of years of being ok I then began to have poor results with my hba1c due to having high readings most mornings above 20. My doctor advised me to get up through the night to check my levels for a couple of weeks it turned out that my readings were fine around 3am but went up after that. At my next/last chec kup I took a print out of my readings to my doctor and again asked for help and he changed my base insulin and hey presto success at last. I even see single figures some mornings. This has led me to try harder with my control and even though I sometimes feel very down and fed up its not so constant as it used to be. I feel that I have been on a long journey in coming to terms with my diabetes and wish that I had pushed for help a bit earlier but sometimes at my annual check up I always felt that I had failed once again to improve but I now feel that it was health care that I received that failed. [/QUOTE]
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