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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 1984821" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>First, there's no need to blame yourself. Diabulimia is frighteningly common - eating disorders are often caused by dietary restrictions and diabetics are particularly prone to them. It's not your fault that you're diabetic and though there are better choices that might have been made in the past it's completely counter productive to blame yourself for an illness (depression, diabulimia) which is a common side effect of the T1 diagnosis (particularly for your age group). There's even a sub forum of the T1 forum here which is devoted to it.</p><p></p><p>And most of us elderly/mature T1s (58 here and 49years of that was T1) have fallen off the wagon at some stage of our lives and I certainly did my body no favours in my teens. But I still have two healthy children (now adult) born after 18 and 21 years of T1hood.</p><p></p><p>Now the good news - lots of the damage you're describing is reversible or stoppable (I've had on again off again background retinopathy for decades and it encourages me to improve my control - no one's suggested I need treatment for it yet). So you haven't destroyed your body but you do need to try to improve your control. It's really good that you're trying to get help.</p><p></p><p>Have you spoken to your diabetic team? There's lots of diabetic help they can get you (maybe a libre?). I can't imagine how awful you must feel with frequent (any) DKA episodes. I feel bad enough just after a hypo. </p><p></p><p>But please remember - beating yourself up about this doesn't help - concentrate on the future - do your blood tests and inject that insulin. You'll be able to think more clearly and make better (more rational) decisions about your life if you can just push ypur blood sugar into more sensible ranges.</p><p></p><p>Don't give up, lots of us here are wishing you well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 1984821, member: 372717"] First, there's no need to blame yourself. Diabulimia is frighteningly common - eating disorders are often caused by dietary restrictions and diabetics are particularly prone to them. It's not your fault that you're diabetic and though there are better choices that might have been made in the past it's completely counter productive to blame yourself for an illness (depression, diabulimia) which is a common side effect of the T1 diagnosis (particularly for your age group). There's even a sub forum of the T1 forum here which is devoted to it. And most of us elderly/mature T1s (58 here and 49years of that was T1) have fallen off the wagon at some stage of our lives and I certainly did my body no favours in my teens. But I still have two healthy children (now adult) born after 18 and 21 years of T1hood. Now the good news - lots of the damage you're describing is reversible or stoppable (I've had on again off again background retinopathy for decades and it encourages me to improve my control - no one's suggested I need treatment for it yet). So you haven't destroyed your body but you do need to try to improve your control. It's really good that you're trying to get help. Have you spoken to your diabetic team? There's lots of diabetic help they can get you (maybe a libre?). I can't imagine how awful you must feel with frequent (any) DKA episodes. I feel bad enough just after a hypo. But please remember - beating yourself up about this doesn't help - concentrate on the future - do your blood tests and inject that insulin. You'll be able to think more clearly and make better (more rational) decisions about your life if you can just push ypur blood sugar into more sensible ranges. Don't give up, lots of us here are wishing you well. [/QUOTE]
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