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<blockquote data-quote="Marfmama" data-source="post: 412949" data-attributes="member: 65570"><p><strong>Re: Feeling Ill & at the end of my tether!</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi rubyloo, I'm sensitive to insulin too and find it really frustrating, I have asked to go on a course but my surgery is like yours, I have to book myself in and when I get there they act like 'well.. Why have you come?!' I'll take 4 units before a sandwich and be fine, then take 5 before a huge meal and have a big hypo. I played squash one night and the next day I had about 5 hypos an just couldn't stabilise myself. It's hard because people around you just think its a case of you can't eat chocolate or whatever! I feel very similar to how you have described and it's affecting my work - the advice we have been given by the good people of this forum is right though, this is our condition and there is no quick and easy solution, we need to educate ourselves, test regularly and work out our doses and how foods affect us. I have personally been caught in a vicious cycle that I need to break - I feel **** so I don't have the energy to look after myself, which makes me feel worse. Sorry this message is probably not of any use to you haha, at least it helps knowing we are not in it alone!!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from the <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig" target="_blank">Diabetes Forum App</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marfmama, post: 412949, member: 65570"] [b]Re: Feeling Ill & at the end of my tether![/b] Hi rubyloo, I'm sensitive to insulin too and find it really frustrating, I have asked to go on a course but my surgery is like yours, I have to book myself in and when I get there they act like 'well.. Why have you come?!' I'll take 4 units before a sandwich and be fine, then take 5 before a huge meal and have a big hypo. I played squash one night and the next day I had about 5 hypos an just couldn't stabilise myself. It's hard because people around you just think its a case of you can't eat chocolate or whatever! I feel very similar to how you have described and it's affecting my work - the advice we have been given by the good people of this forum is right though, this is our condition and there is no quick and easy solution, we need to educate ourselves, test regularly and work out our doses and how foods affect us. I have personally been caught in a vicious cycle that I need to break - I feel **** so I don't have the energy to look after myself, which makes me feel worse. Sorry this message is probably not of any use to you haha, at least it helps knowing we are not in it alone!! Sent from the [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig]Diabetes Forum App[/url] [/QUOTE]
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