cwalkero32
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Hi Guys,
I am new to this forum and I have been a T1 diabetic for over 20 years.
I thought I would come on this and share my experience with being a T1 diabetic and my love working out at the gym. Now I dont know how it is for other people but I have found an extreme amount of negativity from my diabetes clinic towards me doing bodybuilding.
When I was 18 years old I decided that this was something that I wanted to do with my life. I attended the diabetes clinic as I normally did and expressed my ambitions with the nurse specialist and the dietician. The reaction I got was pretty horrific as I was told straight off that if I decided to take steroids then they would not offer me any support on my diabetes with this. Now, I never have or will take steroids and this was never brought up by myself but it was amazing just how quickly they went against me. The dietician looked at my supplements and told me all of it was rubbish and I was wasting my money. I was angered by this as I know quite a lot about nutrition especially sports nutrition but I was interested to see what her reaction was to that. The dietician then told me "why do you want to look like arnold schwarznegger, why not look like sylvestor stallone, he is a lot more smaller and has a best body"......jeezuz! I just looked at her and thought what a complete hack. My diabetes clinic showed no support whatsoever and I decided that if they were not going to help me then I wont go.
After the grilling I got from the nurse specialist and the dietician, on my way out I heard one of the nurses talk to this diabetic obese girl "Your doing really well, just try not to eat too many sugary snacks but keep up the good work". I thought to myself "hold up!, I literally had a zero sugar diet combined with a lot of very healthy nutritional supplements with an intense workout regime....and I am the bad one while tubby who is one mars bar away from a coma gets a pat on the back!". I did not attend the clinic for almost 10 years and the funny thing is that they never made much of an effort to contact me. When I decided to return (having still not taken steroids) I apparently had become this legendary ghost that no one has seen but knows is out there.
I never did go down the route of competing in bodybuilding but I have done it as a hobby on my own without the help or support of the nhs diabetes centre. Its a shame that they did not embrace the sport because even now I could do with some help on using my insulin for gains instead of fighting against it.
Also just on another note. I do have about 6-7 mini hypos a week (I have great awareness so they drop to about 3.0 and I shoot them back up) is this normal because whenever I tried to use the diabetic centres plan on my diabetes, I would end up having a blood sugar level of 24.0 for a good month while they would say "well add 2 units of insulin here, and take a unit off there" to which it did ****** all for my blood sugar level. Also I would say that I am completely at a struggle with impotence and do many male T1 diabetes suffer with this as I do and viagra does not help.
I am new to this forum and I have been a T1 diabetic for over 20 years.
I thought I would come on this and share my experience with being a T1 diabetic and my love working out at the gym. Now I dont know how it is for other people but I have found an extreme amount of negativity from my diabetes clinic towards me doing bodybuilding.
When I was 18 years old I decided that this was something that I wanted to do with my life. I attended the diabetes clinic as I normally did and expressed my ambitions with the nurse specialist and the dietician. The reaction I got was pretty horrific as I was told straight off that if I decided to take steroids then they would not offer me any support on my diabetes with this. Now, I never have or will take steroids and this was never brought up by myself but it was amazing just how quickly they went against me. The dietician looked at my supplements and told me all of it was rubbish and I was wasting my money. I was angered by this as I know quite a lot about nutrition especially sports nutrition but I was interested to see what her reaction was to that. The dietician then told me "why do you want to look like arnold schwarznegger, why not look like sylvestor stallone, he is a lot more smaller and has a best body"......jeezuz! I just looked at her and thought what a complete hack. My diabetes clinic showed no support whatsoever and I decided that if they were not going to help me then I wont go.
After the grilling I got from the nurse specialist and the dietician, on my way out I heard one of the nurses talk to this diabetic obese girl "Your doing really well, just try not to eat too many sugary snacks but keep up the good work". I thought to myself "hold up!, I literally had a zero sugar diet combined with a lot of very healthy nutritional supplements with an intense workout regime....and I am the bad one while tubby who is one mars bar away from a coma gets a pat on the back!". I did not attend the clinic for almost 10 years and the funny thing is that they never made much of an effort to contact me. When I decided to return (having still not taken steroids) I apparently had become this legendary ghost that no one has seen but knows is out there.
I never did go down the route of competing in bodybuilding but I have done it as a hobby on my own without the help or support of the nhs diabetes centre. Its a shame that they did not embrace the sport because even now I could do with some help on using my insulin for gains instead of fighting against it.
Also just on another note. I do have about 6-7 mini hypos a week (I have great awareness so they drop to about 3.0 and I shoot them back up) is this normal because whenever I tried to use the diabetic centres plan on my diabetes, I would end up having a blood sugar level of 24.0 for a good month while they would say "well add 2 units of insulin here, and take a unit off there" to which it did ****** all for my blood sugar level. Also I would say that I am completely at a struggle with impotence and do many male T1 diabetes suffer with this as I do and viagra does not help.
