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Hey! Ive been diagnosed for 10 mnths but I STILL cant control it! it was good until I started school again. :( Anyone got any help? I cry nearly every day and I need help to control it but I cant!! :( :( everyone tells me to keep trying but they dont have Diabetes therefore they do not know how i feel. Please help!!
 
Hi ,

All new to me in the last 12 months, can fully understand that yr upset as there are days when I feel completely flat. It is difficult for others to understand.You sound as if you are in your teenage yrs , never an easy age, could be your hormones aren't helping if you are crying all the time. Be kind to yourself. Is there a diabetic nurse at the Dr's that you could confide in ? Do your family know how upset you are ?
Wanted to reply and there will be other replies from guys/gals that know more than both of us who can help you more. You are not alone on this site - I've learned that.
Keep in touch X
 
Hi moodygirl..

You've not been diagnosed long, so probably either still in the honeymoon period or just coming out of it... The honeymoon period effect different people in different ways, some find at the during this time their diabetes is easy to control, as the pancreas slowly stops working evenly, others find that it's different because one day the pancreas will work and the next it''s not, so hard to work out insulin needs...

Yes as others said, you got to keep trying but you need how to keep trying as without information that enables you to translate your results and what is impacting on those results, you won't know how to change anything,,,

But here some guidelines to what you need to learn and do to get the information to take control...

First, diary to log in your food/carb amounts, exercise, stress levels, illness, with your blood glucose results, insulin dose in.. The better/more information you have the easier it is to translate your results into control.. You can get meter's where you can log all this information into it's electronic log book, easily and swiftly...

Blood Testing, you need to do this regularly and consistently, before and after eating, before and after exercise, if you feel unwell, stressed etc... this give's you the information different factors changes your insulin response, so that you can alter your dose to keep control..

You also need to learn, where the carbs are hidden in your foods, how different types and combination of carbs impact on your BG, which one hit fast which are ones adsorb slowly..

Sounds a lot of learning, yes it's pretty intensive to start as you gather all your data, but you find once you'll up and running you can drop back on the intensity and ease of the main data collection.. And just have spats of intense data collection when something changes, such as new exercise and change in normal routine or perhaps you feel stressed as hell about something..

So if you ask questions here, we can help out with explaining many different things to help out... And perhaps you might like to invest in a book about MDI control, a good one Is Using Insulin by John Walsh...
 
hiya moody girl. read your post and thought my daughter was posting!!!!!!! she has had alot of problems accepting t1 and gets upset loads and says "no one knows how i feel. so your not alone. we started off with matching insulin to what she eats but she snacks too much and didn.t take insulin so now on novamix twice a day and having a set amount of carbs at certain times. we used to try to start the day with good bloods and correct after school as always a little too high. now we aim for under tens used to be in 20/30 . she feels that she is being judged good or bad depending on blood levels. but all im trying to do is find out why so we can learn from it. its been 18 mths now last hba1c 10, the previous12 so i guess we are getting better. we have the accu chek expert meter that you can set to tell you how much insulin you need. just do your blood put the carbs in and it tells you. try and live your life as you did and keep talking to your dsn . they won.t be shocked and will find away to make things acceptable. hugs to you x
 
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