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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jimmysmith" data-source="post: 1512190" data-attributes="member: 420958">So I've already done an introductory thread but I need to get the following off my chest.I was diagnosed with type 1 when I was around 8 or 9 and I'm 26, nearly 27, now. At that point everything was very strict and I was a 'good' diabetic, my sugars were usally under control from what I can remember.Not long after my 14th birthday I was knocked off my bike, leaving me with a broken ankle and wrist, sprained knee tendons and severe trauma to the frontal lobe of my brain. (This is relevant just bear with me) This all left me severely shaken but I seemed on the road to recovery, although the doctors warned that the full impact wouldn't be felt until my 20s.Around the age of 19 I began to lose control of my diabetes. I began missing injections, I didn't do my blood tests. I was in hospital with DKA about twice a year, there was one time when the Doctor in ER told me I'd been in DK fpr about a month and was 20 minutes away from going under and dying.I was also diagnosed with a IBD at the age of 20 which seemed, to me, to add another responsibility to my, what felt like, already heavy load of responsibilities.Eventually, around 2013, I admited that I didn't know if I wanted to live and it was thought that my accident'd had a deeper impact on me then originally thought and I was subconsciously sabotaging my diabetes as I was depressed and therefore selfharming via my diabetes.I started seeing someone about it and started to make some progress, although none of it seemed to change my management of my condition. In 2014 however I started dating the most brilliant of girls and that seemed to be a turning point. I started to take me control of my diabetes, I went on DAFNE and I managed to get my HBA1C down to single figures for the first time in years (I still operating under the old way of recording it lol). That was in 2015. I'm still dating the same girl, recently got engaged in fact, but since 2015 my control has gone again, my HBA1C is back in double figures and I'm missing injections, not doing bloodtests again and when I do injections I'm just guessing what doses to do. I want to get things under control, I want to be that guy I was after I did the DAFNE course, the guy who had a single figure HBA1C but I just.....can't seem to get into a mindset that will do it. I'm not posting this just to moan, I'm posting this to explain myself to, maybe,  get some advice.Sorry for such a long post.</blockquote>

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