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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertwt" data-source="post: 253364" data-attributes="member: 36346">Hi distinguished Forum,I have Type 1 diabetes. I used to be Type 2 but the alarming amounts of insulin I take have tilted the balance into Type 1. I was diagnosed in 1996 after a goodly portion of my wife's wonderful tirimisu.  Pudding - doctor - Blood Test - BG 20+ and that was it)So there!I look at (and accept) my condition in one of three ways:#1 - I have a diagnosis of diabetes#2 - I am a diabetic#3 - I suffer from diabetes.I think that I lean most heavily on the first. I do use #2 to introduce myself to other people (particularly when injecting in a public place) (only one verbally violent objection so far - in a restaurant - when it was suggeted that I use the toilets. I refused and pointed out the health risks involved and asked whether she would ask her doctor to use the loos next time she had a flu jab etc. End of!) :lol:  )Which brings us to #3. Do I suffer with my diabetes?  I eat pretty much what I want, within reason, following a fairly high fibre diet.  blood tests - just a little pinprick - usually no sensation at all. My injections - Injection technology (thin, thin, thin needles) are painless and not re-used - and the odd blood test (3 or 4 times a year) are so painless that I take perverse pleasure watching the needle dive beneath my skin). When I was in hospital with cancer (clear now and fully discharged) in 2006, I even did the old fashioned injection - taking over from the nurses to inject myself. That was a matter of pride and OWNERSHIP.THAT'S  how I accept my diabetes. I own it. Like I own my hears and lungs and gall bladder (oops - that went earlier this month). As owner I have a vested interest to maintain it in the best way I know how.  Seeing the control of the condition as a necessary part of my daily life: watching my diet; exercising moderately; remembering medications and insulin; testing; turning up for Clinic and Doctor's appointments.So I accept that I suffer from diabetes, that I am a diabetic but really, all that I am is a person with a diagnosis of diabetes.and no, I ain't no plaster saint - my BG bounces up from time to time but in general it behaves itself Robert WTNovorapid 6 i/u breakfast and lunch; 8 i/u dinnerLevemir 70 i/u morning and 68 i/u eveningMetformin 850 mg 3 times a dayVarious other pills and potions (somewhere arount 16 tabs/day at last count) (for other bits of my owner-occupier body)</blockquote>

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