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People's reactions to diabetes

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Jelaca

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Location
UK
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
I know a girl that started a new college just when I did. She is also Type 1 diabetic, and unlike me she is so open and public about the condition and has often just injected herself infront of people when I was there.

Afterwards when she had left people said things like, "is she diabetic?" and "Can't believe she just does that infront of people" and I had the horrible job of answering them saying yeah she is, and me too...

I now feel extremely horrible when it comes to my injection times and I have to inject.
If I can do it without people seeing I do, but otherwise I wait until I can go to the toilet, which is sometimes a long time after the insulin was due.

How can I move forward from this after knowing what they think about the other girl injecting? That means other people would talk about me like that :/
 
I don't give 'two hoots' what people think if I need to inject in public, although I try to be as discreet as possible.

And I've never had anyone make a comment to me about it in over 40 years. It only takes a few seconds and I doubt anyone can actually see the needle going in - it's all in their minds.

It was far more embarrassing in the old days when we had syringes and bottles of insulin... used to feel a bit like a junky :shock:
 
Let them think what they want, the fact is we need to inject insulin otherwise we'd die, I don't see why any of us should hide in a corner to inject, the insulin pens are so small and discreet now that you can inject without anyone noticing, please try not to let it bother you what other people think Jelica :)
 
I will I kept privately wherever I can but I have absolutely no qualms about testing my sugars or injecting in front of people if I have to. It's not like I'm injecting myself with some illegal substance or getting any sort of high from it!

The injections keep me alive. End of. As I said above, I try and find a corner usually. That's more so that I don't get a million and one questions about what I am doing.

Lots of people will ask what you are injecting and why. Nothing to be ashamed of, though. You shouldn't have to hide your diabetes at all. In fact, it's probably better that people know about it in case anything was ever to happen. That's my opinion, anyway :)

Em


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I was at a football game and the man sitting next to me injected into his stomach, I thought at first he was jabbing himself with a pen!! It hardly noticed, and did not look nasty at all, and I do not like watching animals get injected let alone a person :lol:

Sunhat
 
If I'm with new people who don't know I'm diabetic, I just make a joke and ask if anyone has a fear of needles and just pre warn them to what's about to happen. If it's a public place, I just try to be as discreet as possible, but would not never do it coz of that and I still use syringes


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