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Mental illness

Dale86

Dale86

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi, I am a 28yr old lad who served 6yrs in the infantry and have done a few tours of Afghanistan.

I have since left the army because I was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, along with depression, anxiety and suffer with some psychotic episodes!

After a couple of years battling my condition I was then hit with another blow, type1 diabetes! I have now been a diabetic for a year and a half.

I have struggled massively to control my diabetes, in fact it hasn't been my priority!

Could do with some help really
 
Welcome to the forum Dale :)
Not an easy time you had in the last few years. Controlling diabetes is not simple but doable. Put some effort into controlling your levels as it will help you massively with getting under control your anxiety and depression. Im not sure if there is some scientific research but Im sure that these two are linked together. I can see my mood swings depending on the sugar levels and also experienced some anxiety issues when my sugar levels were all over the place
 
Hi Dale, Welcome!! I agree with @ewelina. I know its sounds easy for us to say but if you can get your diabetes under control it will have some effect on your depression and give you the physical health and strength that you need to deal with your PTSD. There are some great people on this forum, don't be worried about asking anything at all, there is usually someone who can help! Sue xxx. :)
 
Hi Dale I can also vouch for the effect of maintaining good stable glucose levels, I ended up at the docs when things got really bad, my blood glucose levels were bouncing around all over the place and I was really down about it, my doctor quite clearly explained that my erratic levels caused this.

I now eat a low carb diet, take less insulin and have much better control, you may not need to low carb but if you can carb count well and take the right insulin then your levels and moods will improve. Download 'carbs and cals' on your phone, get a good blood glucose monitor such as a Freestyle Insulinx - this will also tell you how much insulin to take with your meal and tell you how much you have in your system as it calculates this, also write or record your results, again you can download an app on your phone to do this like glucose wiz. Recording results will spot patterns so you can act on this.

Also what would help you to manage your levels better ?

You really have to become the expert now, so read as much as you can, get on DAFNE and talk to us here, we can all help ;)
 
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