GrahamLush
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Pump
I'd try not being angry or sad about it.I would of said some choice words to her!
Theoretically yes- in practice no- at least not over the 40 yrs I have done so.I can understand you trying to be discreet but wouldn't injecting through trousers or shirt compromise sterility of the injection and pose an infection risk?
When I had my lunch earlier I was waiting for my mum to bring it over and I sorted out my insulin pen and needle and this girl looked at me, gagged and called me disgusting. I was nearly in tears, this hasn't happened to me before, I was only saving my life by injecting myself, now im self-conscious again over it. Has anyone had this happen and what did you do about it?
On a first date, the charmer I was with saw me inject. In the middle of a restaurant I was loudly accused of being a drug addict and royally told off. Boy did I feel the eyes boring into my back! I sat and listened as politely as I could. When my date used the bathroom, I paid the bill and walked out with very sympathetic looks from the waiting staff. He came back to an empty table. I walked off humiliated.
No-one should feel embarrassed or shamed for injecting insulin in public. As an asthmatic, I'm not ashamed if I need to use my inhaler, equally as life saving. I refuse to inject in most toilets for hygiene reasons, and now just shrug my shoulders and inject as discretely as I can. It may be idealistic, but survival triumphs over the etiquette of managing other people's squeamishness. Discretion is the key, I don't just expose my belly and jab in a needle, but nor do I shy away from something which is as necessary as breathing.
Please take heart from the fact that you're very brave. No one has the right to make you feel wrong about being diabetic. Pity the girl as ignorance is an infinitely more painful condition, and sadly usually equally incurable. Diabetes on the other hand, unlike ignorance, is treatable, lucky us!
When I had my lunch earlier I was waiting for my mum to bring it over and I sorted out my insulin pen and needle and this girl looked at me, gagged and called me disgusting. I was nearly in tears, this hasn't happened to me before, I was only saving my life by injecting myself, now im self-conscious again over it. Has anyone had this happen and what did you do about it?
Almost worse I once got sacked for being hypo on the phone and an MP in Westminster for whom I was working told me not to do a bloodtest in front of her!
Consultant recently told me off for injecting through clothes but, frankly, if you are out & have a dress on you have no choice (it's either that or lift the dress up, which at my age is worse than having an injection in public)!!! Asked doctor re medi swabs but she refused to prescribe them because she said I could buy sterile fluid at the chemist. Frankly there are so many views about what should |& shouldn't be done so you need to do what is best for you....Theoretically yes- in practice no- at least not over the 40 yrs I have done so.
In fact when first diagnosed I well remember that my Dr told me that one of his professors (who was himself
a diabetic) injected through his trousers and told his students that he thought the 'sterile site' mantra was OTT..
For myself things like 'medi-swabs' were consigned to the history books at least 3 decades ago.
My kinda of ladyI literally have no shame when it comes to taking my insulin or doing a blood test in public and I pity the poor ****** who makes a nasty comment to me about it. As of yet no one has said anything to me and I think it's best to be quite obvious about it, the more people see these things the more normal they will become for non diabetic people and the comments will get less and less! Chin up Alex, just think, it's only your pancreas that doesn't work, for that poor girl it's her brain
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I am also so sorry this happened to you. And if the assumption was that you were taking drugs it is a truly appalling act of ignotance.
I did have just one thought though. Some people are really squeamy about needles and you were in a place where people are eating. I can see that some people might find that 'disgusting'. Maybe like taking a plaster off a cut at the dinner table or something like that. But neither do I think that people should be forced to inject in a toilet. Very unhygienic and unpleasant.
I once had something similar.. in a restaurant, food arrived, so I prepared my injection. Another customer noticed and said that I should go into the toilets to inject my insulin. I replied, " If a doctor told you you needed an injection, then told you to go into the toilets for him to give it to you, would you object? I cannot think of a more un-hygienic place than a public convenience!" That shut him up. Don't be put off by these bigots, they need to be educated not listened to. You go on and inject as and when you need to, and bigots be shamed.When I had my lunch earlier I was waiting for my mum to bring it over and I sorted out my insulin pen and needle and this girl looked at me, gagged and called me disgusting. I was nearly in tears, this hasn't happened to me before, I was only saving my life by injecting myself, now im self-conscious again over it. Has anyone had this happen and what did you do about it?
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