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I'm 16 and am in my first year at college in Basingstoke.
Yesterday I went to the doctors with the following complaints: weeing a lot, drinking a lot, feeling faint, dizzy and shaking.
The doctor did a blood test by pricking my finger and it came up at 14.2, he also did a urine test which came up pretty high, he said I definatley had diabetes, so called the local peadeatritions and said that they would call me tomorrow. A lovely bloke caled Chris called today and said he was coming to my college at 12.30 for an unrelated insidence and would have a chat. He measured my blood sugar levels and it showed normal at 4.0. He was a little confused and told me to come back at eating, after this it was 8.2, still fairly normal, so he suggested I went to the hospital after college futher tests...
I arrived and had a key tone's test which showed 2.0, I also had the finger prick test again, which showed 13 and had a test where it measured the amount of sugar attatched to my blood cells for the last 30 days, offering an average sugar level...this was high and lead to me being diagnosed today with diabetes type 1.
I've just got back from hospital, after being there for about 4 and a half hours. I cannot believe how brave diabetic people are. I can just about cope with doing the prick test on my finger, but when asked to inject myself with insulin, I just couldn't...I felt like a heroiin addict, and the fear of pain was imense. In the end, the lovely diabetic specialist did it for me, and she is visiting me tomorrow to support me with the injections. I don't think I am going to manage. I have work as well, and it's going to be hard to ajust my diet and live around the insulin injections.
I guess i'm a little gutted as i'm 16 and it's suddenly injections for the rest of my life, but there have got to be people out there in worse situations than me. It's just jumping this hurdle and adapting my lifestyle.
Does anyone else have an experience with the first time they injected or am I being utterly silly and childish?
Rebecca, x
Yesterday I went to the doctors with the following complaints: weeing a lot, drinking a lot, feeling faint, dizzy and shaking.
The doctor did a blood test by pricking my finger and it came up at 14.2, he also did a urine test which came up pretty high, he said I definatley had diabetes, so called the local peadeatritions and said that they would call me tomorrow. A lovely bloke caled Chris called today and said he was coming to my college at 12.30 for an unrelated insidence and would have a chat. He measured my blood sugar levels and it showed normal at 4.0. He was a little confused and told me to come back at eating, after this it was 8.2, still fairly normal, so he suggested I went to the hospital after college futher tests...
I arrived and had a key tone's test which showed 2.0, I also had the finger prick test again, which showed 13 and had a test where it measured the amount of sugar attatched to my blood cells for the last 30 days, offering an average sugar level...this was high and lead to me being diagnosed today with diabetes type 1.
I've just got back from hospital, after being there for about 4 and a half hours. I cannot believe how brave diabetic people are. I can just about cope with doing the prick test on my finger, but when asked to inject myself with insulin, I just couldn't...I felt like a heroiin addict, and the fear of pain was imense. In the end, the lovely diabetic specialist did it for me, and she is visiting me tomorrow to support me with the injections. I don't think I am going to manage. I have work as well, and it's going to be hard to ajust my diet and live around the insulin injections.
I guess i'm a little gutted as i'm 16 and it's suddenly injections for the rest of my life, but there have got to be people out there in worse situations than me. It's just jumping this hurdle and adapting my lifestyle.
Does anyone else have an experience with the first time they injected or am I being utterly silly and childish?
Rebecca, x