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New Type One Diabetic
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MarkET
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That's for that I've been told that the finger testing is more painful I'm not sure myself will let you know
MarkET
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No I've just been informed I'm type one have got a appointment with my GP to sort out all on Friday so they have said keep taking tablets that I am on now then they will sort everything out on Friday
They just told me what to expect
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Ah, right! What tablets are you taking? Are you measuring your glucose levels? A week seems an awfully long time to wait to treat a new type one - did they say it was a really slow onset? Or is it type two that needs insulin?
Post on the first page says market has had type 2 for 25 years, so not a new type 1
@MarkET Are you T1 or T2 on insulin now? I ask because T1 and T2 are completely different. T1 is an auto immune disease and T2 is a metabolic disorder. It would be helpful to clarify so we can give you the best advice. Have you had tests to prove that you are T1? Or is your T2 not able to be controlled by diet and tablets alone now?
Oh and welcome to the forum
Oh and welcome to the forum
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It reads very much as if they’ve just been diagnosed T1, to me at least. I didn’t see any mention of T2.
In which case, being a T2 who has to go on insulin doesn’t make you a T1, it makes you a T2 on insulin. It’s a pretty common misnomer, it’s not the taking of insulin that determines what type you are, they’re two totally different conditions.
Either way, if we can help the OP overcome the fear of injecting, it really doesn’t matter what condition they have :_
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Oh no, I’m sorry to hear that! So you’re not producing any insulin at all? Or just enough to tide you over until they can sort you out with some of the bottled stuff? Forgive all the questions, we can help better if we know the situation.
MarkET
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It's hanging in there but it's time to move into type 1 insulin injections so they've said
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I had a nasty dose of gastric flu, which appeared to have sent my immune system into overdrive, and within a week it had eaten my pancreas... that’s what they reckon happened anyway. As soon as I could venture more than ten feet from a bathroom one Wednesday afternoon, I went to see my GP about the gastric flu, and I came out with type 1 diabetes! I was in hospital by teatime, and that was that. In my 20 years I’ve probably done over 50k insulin injections, some you feel, most you don’t. Modern needles are fantastic, if you use a fresh one every time, you won’t feel a thing. It’s the mental side of it that causes the bother, my advice when it comes to it is to not hesitate, just shove it in. The longer you hover, the more stressed you get - and stress hormones put your glucose levels up.
I started using a pump for the very first time two days ago, and it feels really weird not to inject. I keep getting that feeling that I’ve forgotten something really important, like when you go on holiday and you’re not entirely sure you’ve locked your house...
MarkET
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Oh and I thought I had it hard I must admit it's the thought of stabbing myself is the most frightening thing of all this and there more I think about it the worse I'm getting I know it's not going to be the worst thing in my life since I work for the NHS in theatres and have worked on the wards dealing with all these patients with diabetes but it's different when you've got to do it yourself I admit this group has opened my eyes to some parts of diabetes and in a strange way set my mind at test to a point I think we'll until I go to see GP on Friday that is
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I’m sure you’ll do great, lovely. None of us do it for fun, after all. I believe @GlitterSparkles has a little gadget called a Tickleflex, which helps makes the jabs pain free.
You’re probably building injecting up in your head to being scarier than it is. It’s just a few mm long, hurts less than having a fingerprick blood test if you’ve had any of those, and hurts way less than any injections you are given if sick as it just goes into your fat layer. Stick it in, count to 10 and it’s done. If it is going to hurt you notice when it touches the skin and just move it to a different spot.
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Hi, my diagnosis story was 29 years ago, Ex left me with our 2 children( I was in shock and at the time heartbroken), I became ill with suspected Colitis. Recovered months later, but then lost weight from 8 1/2 stone to 7 stone, with other type 1 symptoms. My Ex took the children on holiday to a caravan park, so I went o the North East of England, via 2 coaches to visit my sister. I was there two day's and that night ended up in North Tee's General for a week. So it was all the Ex's fault
as I was perfectly healthy before that. My children were obviously upset when told, I stayed an extra week at my sister's as the hospital said it wasn't a good idea for me to travel back on my own. I returned home and just got on with it as a single parent and I worked part-time in a well known supermarket.