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Hello there,
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules by posting here. I was diagnosed on the 15th of October, so I'm not entirely confident I qualify as newly diagnosed even though I sure as heck feel that way. I'm going to be honest with you, the last couple of weeks have been a real struggle for me emotionally and physically; as it stands I'm deviating between the feeling that I'm finally coming to terms with my diagnosis and breaking down randomly during the day (usually when I wake up and before meal times). Aside from the stress and anxiety I'm feeling over all of this, the learning curve feels so steep right now due to the relentless torrent of information I've had to take in these past two weeks. I'm desperate for my life to return to some kind of normalcy but I feel as though I'm stuck in a loop.
I'm sorry in advance, I haven't even introduced myself and I'm here dropping a big old rant. My name is Andrew and I'm 35 years old. As it stands I'm currently waiting on the results of a GAD test; in the meantime I've been placed on insulin as the specialists here in Scotland strongly suspect I'm type 1 due to how quickly my symptoms appeared and escalated. I've come to understand that it's fairly rare to receive a type 1 diagnosis at my age and that I'm fortunate that it was detected before I had a major incident. My last (and first) a1c came back at 124 which I'm told is very high.
As it stands I'm trying my best to get familiar with counting carbs and dosing myself as best I can. I've been given a Libre 2 thingy and while it's been really useful I can't help but feel as though my life is turning into a graph as I focus on trying to flatten the spikes I'm seeing every time I stuff food into my face hole. While my healthcare team have been telling me I'm doing great for someone newly diagnosed, I feel as though they'd say that no matter what so it would be great if I could discuss the results I'm seeing and get some perspective. I've mostly been struggling with this alone because the people closest to me don't want to talk about it, which is rough because it's really what I need right now.
I'd really appreciate any questions, input, advice or even kind words you might have to offer.
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules by posting here. I was diagnosed on the 15th of October, so I'm not entirely confident I qualify as newly diagnosed even though I sure as heck feel that way. I'm going to be honest with you, the last couple of weeks have been a real struggle for me emotionally and physically; as it stands I'm deviating between the feeling that I'm finally coming to terms with my diagnosis and breaking down randomly during the day (usually when I wake up and before meal times). Aside from the stress and anxiety I'm feeling over all of this, the learning curve feels so steep right now due to the relentless torrent of information I've had to take in these past two weeks. I'm desperate for my life to return to some kind of normalcy but I feel as though I'm stuck in a loop.
I'm sorry in advance, I haven't even introduced myself and I'm here dropping a big old rant. My name is Andrew and I'm 35 years old. As it stands I'm currently waiting on the results of a GAD test; in the meantime I've been placed on insulin as the specialists here in Scotland strongly suspect I'm type 1 due to how quickly my symptoms appeared and escalated. I've come to understand that it's fairly rare to receive a type 1 diagnosis at my age and that I'm fortunate that it was detected before I had a major incident. My last (and first) a1c came back at 124 which I'm told is very high.
As it stands I'm trying my best to get familiar with counting carbs and dosing myself as best I can. I've been given a Libre 2 thingy and while it's been really useful I can't help but feel as though my life is turning into a graph as I focus on trying to flatten the spikes I'm seeing every time I stuff food into my face hole. While my healthcare team have been telling me I'm doing great for someone newly diagnosed, I feel as though they'd say that no matter what so it would be great if I could discuss the results I'm seeing and get some perspective. I've mostly been struggling with this alone because the people closest to me don't want to talk about it, which is rough because it's really what I need right now.
I'd really appreciate any questions, input, advice or even kind words you might have to offer.