- Messages
- 18
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hello,
My name is Catarina and I am sixteen years old. First of all I want to apologize if my English is not the best, but I am Portuguese.
So, I was diagnosed with diabetes type one two weeks ago and I had to stay an entire week at the hospital, learning how to deal with the insulin, food, glucose tests, etc. I always had this big idea that only fat people get diabetes, because where I live we don't get educated about this kind of diseaseas (now I think we definetely should!)... that thought ended up not being true since I'm only 156 cm and my weight is 40 quilograms (88,1 pounds, 5,11 feet, 61,4 inches). None of my friends are diabetic, so I always feel insecure and nervous when I have to leave during the midle of classes to measure my glucose, do some math in order to calculate the amount of insulin, take the insulin and then eat... Not only I'm missing important subjects (even though classes are 90 minutes and I "only" leave about 10 minutos), but also my classmates stare at me like they are disgusted or, most of the times, feel pity for me. I really don't like that... I'm going to have a b-day party soon, at a restaurant, and I still need to use my balance to measure rice, pasta and other carbs... Hopefuly I will be able to learn how to count carbs without a balance until then, but I'm still really nervous with the idea of not knowing that the dinner is going to be and having to leave the room to go to the bathroom and do my medical procedures. What if my glucose levels are high and I have to wait 15 or 20 minutes until I am finally able to eat? I will have to stare at everyone while they're eating and then they'll be staring at me. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I think it's kind of normal since I only have this disease for about two weeks. By the way... My main symptoms were huge hunger, thirst and lots of urine (even during the night). I scheduled an appointmet at the doctor for 15 of May, but then, on 7 May I went to the dentist (I have braces) and he told me that my breath was typical of diabetes, so on 9 May I went to the pharm to measure the glucose and it was 303, which I consider very high. They immeadieatly told me to go to the hospital where I ended up being diagnosed with this damned disease. As I said before, I stayed there for an entire week, everyone was super nice and I always felt good, but now that I'm at home I feel constantly sad... Why me? I have to be so careful now... I can't eat whenever I want, whatever I want... And I'm this super skinny girl! My major problem is that only my parents understand the effort because they are the only ones who know all the procedures I have to do during the day. I take Humalog 6 or 7 times a day and Lantus 1 time a day. I measure my glucose about 10 or more times a day. Today I already had two hipoglicoses and I've been have at least one per day since thursday. Sugar is good, don't get me wrong, but I'm not planing on eating packs of sugar everyday, you know? By the way, about the diabetics breath... Is it permanent or what? Is it supposed to stinck? My doctor told me it smells like fruit (apple, mainly) but I can't understand why it is so evident...
I'm not sure if anyone is going to read it entirely, but I appreciate your time, thank you very much.
I'm sorry again for my lack of English.
My name is Catarina and I am sixteen years old. First of all I want to apologize if my English is not the best, but I am Portuguese.
So, I was diagnosed with diabetes type one two weeks ago and I had to stay an entire week at the hospital, learning how to deal with the insulin, food, glucose tests, etc. I always had this big idea that only fat people get diabetes, because where I live we don't get educated about this kind of diseaseas (now I think we definetely should!)... that thought ended up not being true since I'm only 156 cm and my weight is 40 quilograms (88,1 pounds, 5,11 feet, 61,4 inches). None of my friends are diabetic, so I always feel insecure and nervous when I have to leave during the midle of classes to measure my glucose, do some math in order to calculate the amount of insulin, take the insulin and then eat... Not only I'm missing important subjects (even though classes are 90 minutes and I "only" leave about 10 minutos), but also my classmates stare at me like they are disgusted or, most of the times, feel pity for me. I really don't like that... I'm going to have a b-day party soon, at a restaurant, and I still need to use my balance to measure rice, pasta and other carbs... Hopefuly I will be able to learn how to count carbs without a balance until then, but I'm still really nervous with the idea of not knowing that the dinner is going to be and having to leave the room to go to the bathroom and do my medical procedures. What if my glucose levels are high and I have to wait 15 or 20 minutes until I am finally able to eat? I will have to stare at everyone while they're eating and then they'll be staring at me. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I think it's kind of normal since I only have this disease for about two weeks. By the way... My main symptoms were huge hunger, thirst and lots of urine (even during the night). I scheduled an appointmet at the doctor for 15 of May, but then, on 7 May I went to the dentist (I have braces) and he told me that my breath was typical of diabetes, so on 9 May I went to the pharm to measure the glucose and it was 303, which I consider very high. They immeadieatly told me to go to the hospital where I ended up being diagnosed with this damned disease. As I said before, I stayed there for an entire week, everyone was super nice and I always felt good, but now that I'm at home I feel constantly sad... Why me? I have to be so careful now... I can't eat whenever I want, whatever I want... And I'm this super skinny girl! My major problem is that only my parents understand the effort because they are the only ones who know all the procedures I have to do during the day. I take Humalog 6 or 7 times a day and Lantus 1 time a day. I measure my glucose about 10 or more times a day. Today I already had two hipoglicoses and I've been have at least one per day since thursday. Sugar is good, don't get me wrong, but I'm not planing on eating packs of sugar everyday, you know? By the way, about the diabetics breath... Is it permanent or what? Is it supposed to stinck? My doctor told me it smells like fruit (apple, mainly) but I can't understand why it is so evident...
I'm not sure if anyone is going to read it entirely, but I appreciate your time, thank you very much.
I'm sorry again for my lack of English.