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Does anyone find every day life a struggle with Diabetes 1

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nerice-153

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I just wondered if anyone suffered with feeling low and just very tired at end of a working day? I was diagnosed with Diabetes 1 5 years ago and manage it well but I do find I do struggle and not sure if its the diabetese that is making me feel this low! I try really hard every day to stay on top but things I use to be able to cope with I just dont seem to be able to ...does anyone know if this is a normal symption from this condition?
 
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I guess we all feel like that occasionally. To be honest though, I think a lot of non diabetics feel exactly the same. There is a lot of pressure on everyone at present, inflation up, job security down etc. Of course, the diabetes is another added stress that we could do without but I try to remember there are many a lot worse off than me !
Hope you feel better soon !
Mo
 
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nerice-153 said:
I just wondered if anyone suffered with feeling low and just very tired at end of a working day? I was diagnosed with Diabetes 1 5 years ago and manage it well but I do find I do struggle and not sure if its the diabetese that is making me feel this low! I try really hard every day to stay on top but things I use to be able to cope with I just dont seem to be able to ...does anyone know if this is a normal symption from this condition?
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Hello nerice So sorry to hear you are struggling :( Sometimes I feel exasperated,frustrated and annoyed with diabetes, but not in an every day situation.

I would think most of us have thought about not having diabetes, I know I have ( hated it with a passion sometimes) But having a little moan now and then is quite normal and this is a good place to do it.

Take care ,with best wishes RRB
 
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mo1905 said:
I think a lot of non diabetics feel exactly the same.
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Prozac Nation: Use of antidepressants in the UK has soared by 500% in the past 20 years

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... years.html

When I were a lad, we used to say, 'feelin a bit glum'

In the 1600s it was called 'melancholy' and the popular remedy was 'distraction'. The Archbishop in Salzburg even built a pleasure palace in Hellbrunn with trick water fountains to cheer people up.

Bringing people together at festivals with music and food has been recognised for 1000s of years as beneficial.

Just not in the UK in the early 21st century.
 
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Anti-depressants almost certainly are over prescribed, but clinical depression is far more than just feeling a bit glum and anti-depressants are a crucial part of treating it.

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It can be tiring and frustrating having to always consider your diabetes while you are trying to get on with life, worrying about carbs, worrying about insulin, worrying about testing, worrying about picking up your repeat prescriptions etc. We just absorb all of that extra effort without considering what a burden it is on us along with all of life's problems! It's not as if we can take a break or a holiday from managing our diabetes either, is it? I try to find a regular time to do something which is just for me - in my life that is a yoga class once a week, but I suppose it could be setting aside an hour a week to go off to a cafe to have a coffee and read a book.
 
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Glucohero said:
Anti-depressants almost certainly are over prescribed, but clinical depression is far more than just feeling a bit glum and anti-depressants are a crucial part of treating it.
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No one has mentioned clinical depression until you did.

The original poster wrote: "feeling low and just very tired at end of a working day?"

The post that I responded to wrote: "I think a lot of non diabetics feel exactly the same."

Your term "clinical depression" is surely an exageration. The OP was feeling somewhat down, nothing more.
 
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OIC. I think a lot of people are prescribed these things when they shouldn't. It's like Mogadon and Vallium in the 1960s and 1970s and probably also a little like antibiotics now. The GP gets a lot of grief from the patient if he won't prescribe and simply finds it easier to provide the warning but then hand over the prescription.

My reply wasn't as tetchy as you took it. What I do a lot os say these things in a certain way, in my head, but fail to realise that it doesn't read the same way, so, sorry about that.
 
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