Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabetes

Bodybuilder type1 said:

I know how to describe how one might love diabetes it could be like Stockholm syndrome
Like you have been taken over my someone/something agents your will but you still manage to gain attachment to that thing/person
Humans must adapt to our surroundings it's a coping mechanism ! Either join them or fight them ? No ?


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Thundercat said:

No, no and no. Not ever. Not for one single minute. I have had diabetes for 27 years and in that time I have swung between denial and acceptance many, many times. I still hate it. I get on with things because I have to. I have at this point formed an uneasy alliance with diabetes and I believe that is the best it will get. The constant thinking about carbs and blood glucose levels and basal and bolus and hypos and complications and injections and testing and doctors and nurses and constantly defending myself if my control slips. It is mentally, physically and emotionally exhausting. I was 12 when I was diagnosed and do not remember what life felt like before diabetes. I truly envy non diabetics and feel like shouting from the rooftops to people to please eat well and exercise. No one wants diabetes. I am thrilled for this guy that he is happy with diabetes and for all those others who are too. But in my wildest imagination I cannot picture being happy with it. I remember when I was diagnosed nearly everyone said the same thing - it could be worse, it could have been cancer. What!!! Of course cancer is worse, a lot worse. But it doesn't make you feel any better about things.

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Bodybuilder type1 said:

Here is a fact for you all, diabetics can be more healthy than people without diabetes that is just a fact I was thinking about this today and maybe it might be a bit harder for women because they can't grow as much muscle as men. growing muscle especially for men with diabetes will greatly improve your well being .muscle will soak up sugar in your blood much like a filter more muscle equals better bloods and you can gain more muscle easier because you can use insulin to send all them yummy nutrients straight to the muscle eating **** food is ok now and again but it's a habit that can be broken if you eat healthy like lean and clean all the time you don't even want ****** food it's like I like the taste of pork but I don't eat it because of how ****** the meat is its not lean or clean
Like I said before you either make the choice or it will be made for you there is a lot of planning involved

A quick question for people. how many injections and blood tests do you take ever day ?


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Sarah69 said:

That seems an awful lot of injections in a day! I only have 4 and only test my blood 4 times a day.

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Do you only consume 3 meals a day which contain carbs/sugars ?


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Bodybuilder type1 said:

Well I would love if everyone had diabetes haha if everyone was a type1 diabetic none of us could moan because everyone would have it and everyone would just have to get along with it and we would all be just "normal" hAha .
A woman I have known for years came up to me in the pub one night and said I have diabetes the first thing I said was congratulations ! she looked shocked i said thats great news i explained how i thought it was a good thing. now is the time you turn your life around and become a competent confident woman she said no one else had ever responded to the news in a positive way and it was a good change .you become what you think about if you think about bad things bad things are more prone to happen if you get proactive now and focus on the better things then you think about it differently . A good nlp/hypnosis trick to use is
Try thinking about your goals in your mind as if you could see them on a big cinema screen .big, bright pictures bring them close to your mind and focus on them if you keep focusing on bad things then they say imagine you see your fears and distractions are on that screen well make them small in the minds eye have them very far away ,with only black and white. And they keep getting smaller my brain responded to this technique it does not work for everyone
But it might change your life muuhahahahah aaaa



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Sarah69 said:

You think having diabetes is great??

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