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remembering to test?

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Jelaca

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Location
UK
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
I'm nearly 19, I've been diagnosed with type 1 just under 10 years, and I've never really had a problem with this before (maybe because my mum kept on top of it) but recently I don't test my sugars at all, especially after the DAFNE course, as I just inject for the amount of food I'm eating. I guess I test about 6 or 7 times a week?

I know its bad and I know first hand the affects of badly controlled diabetes (my relative wont go into detail) but I just can't make myself test, I feel so bad about it, also taking my levothyroxine tablets too, I've not taken one in months :S

Has anyone else experienced this? If so what did you do to regain motivation?

I am willing to try anything, thank you x
 
Does your monitor have a alarm? I went through this rebellious stage as teenager - got me into serious trouble!!! Dafne allows you to inject for what you eat but what if your background is way too high to begin with! Try setting alarm on monitor/phone and you'll soon find it takes 2 minutes to test and hopefully before long it becomes habit again


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Hi hun,

Firstly dont beat yourself up - I am currently going through a really bad patch - high sugars, not coping but still throughout all this i'm testing and taking insulin and doing the best that I can to manage it (maybe trying too hard !!).

Take each day as it comes and just concentrate on one day at a time - set yourself a target each day to test before lunch - this is the best time to do it anyway but at least try and do this, I also take levothyroxine - so see if you can set a routine to take this with breakfast ?

I think sometimes with this we all think too long and hard and the effects long term and it can become a big mountain to climb, try and take little steps to start looking after yourself, you are number 1 and very important so just try to take better care of yourself.

Good luck :wink:
 
I used to never test because my diabetes was out of control so whenever I did I just felt guilty and overwhelmed, as I didn't feel able to control it. After I got complications I get this little voice in my head now whenever I slack off, reminding me of why I need to so I'm pretty good now but unfortunately that took some terrible complications to get there.

For me it's the thought of not being able to drive that motivates me, as that was my biggest fear when I got retinopathy (and still is). As it is I still have to do the field test for the dvla every 3 years but last time everything was fine despite lots of laser so hopefully I'll be ok.

Some people are motivated by positive things, some by negative things for me unfortunately it's the latter but hopefully you won't have to learn the hard way as I did in order to be able to do the testing you need to do. You are already aware of the dark side of diabetes (complications) as was I, but for me it took it actually happening to me for it to sink in, abstractly knowing it 'could' happen in the future just didn't make a difference.

Good luck. Unfortunately there's no way to do it except by just doing it.
 
Thanks guys, that was helpful, especially the idea of taking each day as it comes, I will definitley try to remember this for tomorrow and will update my progress :)
 
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