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bagpuss72

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I am here as I really have hit rock bottom with trying to manage my type 1 diabetes.
I haven't been taking my insulin since last may, haven't tested my bloods since the same time, have let my diet get out of control (though for some reason am thankfully losing weight, BMI now under 29 for the first time in years) and just seem to have spent most of the last year not giving a hoot about it all.
And here is the odd thing. I can't quite figure out howto get baxk on the wagon. I know it should be as easy as starting to inject and test again but I just ccan't seem to do it.
I suppose what I am asking here is has anyone else managed to get themselves into such a mess and how did you motivate yourself to start caring again.
 
Hi, I'm sorry to hear you're feeling like this but all I can say is that motivation for anything can only come from you. I suspect your weight loss is due to lack of insulin not because of a miracle. If you want a little bit of motivation - take one BG test and see what you register :think:
 
Hi Bagpuss,

Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you might be wrong about being type 1, cos according to your profile page you're taking glucophage (metformin) & I think it was glimepiride or gliclazide, which are medications only used in type 2 diabetes. Not that this affects your need for help, but you might get more appropriate responses in the type 2 forum. Type 1 diabetics are totally reliant on insulin & will die within days to weeks if they stop injecting, so we have this to motivate us!
Type 2 diabetics can survive without insulin, they'll just be damaging their bodies. You might find others who've done similar to you on the forum though - hope you get some good advice that helps you.
 
I found it really hard on injections always felt ill and having hypos so now I'm on a pump much better levels and I now go to the gym and where as before I didn't. Go out on my own always had a bottle of lucaszaid with me and very miserable


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Hi Bagpus,
well at least you've asked for some help that's always the first step. Just to clarify for Vikki have you missed all your injections since may or are taking ones here and there but missing lots out? I would agree with lemontree that your weightloss is most likely due to lack of insulin and unfortunately not a miracle but instead probably some damage. Have you managed to go to gp's/ clinic and get an HbA1c and all your organ fuction tests? Might be a good idea to have a check up and another good place ask for some help. When I come to doing stuff I don't like then I always think to myself why do I want to be alive why to I want to keep good health? I usually get some good prods from that in the right direction. I also think that a treat at the end of the month of hard work is another good little motivation for myself. Good luck
 
Do you want a decent quality of life/health? If so, take your medication.

There's not much more to it. You don't need some crazy diet, just take your Insulin and eat balanced meals.
 
Hi,

You need to contact your local clinic as soon as possible. If you are right in what you are saying, in that you haven't been taking insulin for that length of time, you need to go and see a doctor and get help. Sooner you go the better and you will feel better for it.

You wouldn't find the answers on this forum regarding your post. Only the doctors will be able to help now.
 
Hi Bagpuss

I somehow managed to go a very long time without ever testing my blood (over ten years) but regularly injected the same amounts I had originally been prescribed when I started the Dafne style at age 20. I had relied on my original urine tests until I ran out of the tablets then I just winged it. I was too squeamish to test my blood. As a result I started kidney dialysis in 1992 aged 28 and started testing my blood sugars the day I received a new kidney via a successful transplant in 1994 at the age of 30. When I was 36 my transplanted kidney failed and I recommended dialysis. After a few years I lost three fingers and half of my left leg as a result of unstable diabetes for nearly 3 decades. I am still receiving dialysis some 12 years after recommending it due to the failure of the transplanted one. Get to your GP and explain, as fully as you can what has happened. Don't make excuses, don't lie, just be honest. If you kept having hypos then your diet/insulin balance was wrong. It's easy to reduce the insulin doses and increase the carbohydrate a little until you get the balance correct but do it in consultation with a diabetic specialist nurse or consultant via your GP. Please do it now to save any awful complications which WILL happen if you continue. You may well be ok if you get help now but without it you face infections, fertility problems, blindness, amputations, heart attacks and maybe more. It's good that you've spoken out via this forum but please seek help, tomorrow or today.


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