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pb&cj

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Type of diabetes
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I was just recently diagnosed and realized that his forum truly helps you not to feel so alone in this. I don't have many friends to begin with and none with diabetes. Just simply talking on here helped me not to feel so alone. I was wondering if anyone else felt similarly and wanted to try to be friends and support each other during this difficult time. I know that even one person would help.
 
T2 diabetic 5 years now.

This really hits home for me. I read that so many people have diabetes but I don't have any close friends that have it (that I know of). I have not been super serious about working on my diabetes until recently but joining this group has helped me alot already.

I hope you get some good advice here and feel supported :)
 
Thank you so much and I'm hoping to make some friends on here cause I feel like having a friend group that understands would benefit everyone. My hope is to be able to chat and just be regular friends that don't need to talk about diabetes all the time, but just understand inherently. But also support each other through difficult times.
 
pb&cj said:
Thank you so much and I'm hoping to make some friends on here cause I feel like having a friend group that understands would benefit everyone. My hope is to be able to chat and just be regular friends that don't need to talk about diabetes all the time, but just understand inherently. But also support each other through difficult times.
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I think you might like this thread: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...g-blood-glucose-full-on-chat.163627/page-3422
It's in the general chat section of the forum, were things other than diabetes can be talked about.
 
pb&cj said:
I was just recently diagnosed and realized that his forum truly helps you not to feel so alone in this. I don't have many friends to begin with and none with diabetes. Just simply talking on here helped me not to feel so alone. I was wondering if anyone else felt similarly and wanted to try to be friends and support each other during this difficult time. I know that even one person would help.
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I am not trying to drive you away but over in the blue corner there are some support groups running and you may be lucky and find one near wherever you are, if that would help.

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/how_we_help/local_support_groups
 
pb&cj said:
I was just recently diagnosed and realized that his forum truly helps you not to feel so alone in this. I don't have many friends to begin with and none with diabetes. Just simply talking on here helped me not to feel so alone. I was wondering if anyone else felt similarly and wanted to try to be friends and support each other during this difficult time. I know that even one person would help.
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I don't have friends (happily so), though there are people I cross paths with and we exchange shallow conversation. I was lost about diabetes before I landed on this website and find the moral support and information learned from the members invaluable. Thanks to them, I gained the necessary knowledge and my blood glucose is nearly always in range. I log-on here almost everyday to enjoy the read-around.
 
The people on here have become my support Tribe, and I do what I can to support them in turn.
Everything I've learned about diabetes, and living with it, I've learned from here and the links from here to good info out there
 
MrsA2 said:
The people on here have become my support Tribe, and I do what I can to support them in turn.
Everything I've learned about diabetes, and living with it, I've learned from here and the links from here to good info out there
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I'm finding that out myself, everyone on here is so supportive and helpful. It really helped calmed my feelings of being alone and I'm forever grateful to everyone. It's difficult but I feel like I can do it slowly with the proper support group.
 
I log in every day and almost every day I learn something new and useful. And the support is always there and always welcome because some days we really benefit from cyberfriends who have trodden the same journey (especially the lumpy bits). In return I offer what I hope is useful from my own experiences.
 
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