- Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum! I've been reading the threads and it's nice to have a place where people understand the struggles that come with type 1 diabetes.
I've been a type 1 diabetic since the age of 12 (I'm now 22), and my friends have always been supportive in general. However, I go low a lot and sometimes it feels like they blame me for not controlling it well. I struggle with diabetes and although my sugars are usually okay, I feel as if I'm walking a tight-rope and that it's difficult to get it exactly right all the time.
One of my friends, who is a fourth year medic student, told me that she hasn't seen a diabetic go low as much as me and that she'll get angry if i go low again (i go low once a day or once every 2 days) (also- she said it in a more concerned rather than an aggressive way) and another told me that I'm not organised and that its about how organised i can be with it, and even asked how comes her other friend with type 1 is able to control it so well and never goes low.
I find this upsetting and somewhat infuriating, even though I know they are doing it because they care. No matter how many times I seem to tell them that its not easy, they somehow manage to make it seem like I'm just neglectful/irresponsible with my diabetes, when this isn't the case! I find it deeply frustrating when the people around me don't understand and start blaming me for something which is incredibly difficult to live with. If it was a different kind of disease they would probably have a more sympathetic reaction, despite diabetes being a daily battle.
Does anyone else experience this? Or am I being overly sensitive?
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