- Messages
- 118
- Type of diabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
- Dislikes
- football, X Factor (and all similar shows), soaps (corrie, east enders etc), hot weather
It sounds silly, but I am!
Before being diagnosed as diabetic I'd let my weight get really out of hand due to illness and injury. I'd started to lose the weight slowly when diagnosed. I've been further hampered by more injuries, currently awaiting podiatry appointment for foot and all the doctor's said is 'non-weight bearing exercise'. Fair enough.
However, my mum's given me a couple of nasty frights where exercise and pushing yourself is concerned, and even though I know she's older and her diabetes is more advanced it's still freaking me out. She'd ended up in hospital in a diabetic coma with pneumonia a few years ago, which really knocked her health and fitness. She's slowly built herself back up to a minimum level of fitness that copes with all every day stuff. However, on a couple of occasions (when riding our horse) she's pushed herself to do more than she was up to, and all but fallen off having a hypo - the most recent one I actually thought she was going to pass out as she was that affected She's been diabetic for years, but I'd never seen a hypo before these incidents, and as medical stuff tends to scare me a bit anyway I was quite stressed by it.
I think it's due to the similarities (disregarding age/stage of diabetes) it freaks me out more - both unfit, both trying to regain fitness, she was doing something I want to get back to when she had the hypo...it's leaving me feeling really worried about how much I should push myself when I do exercise. I'm meant to be trying aqua-zumba for the first time next week, but I'm now worried in case I come over all shaky in the pool and can't get out (which IS really silly, I know I will be taking it easy the first time, with the aim being just to keep moving for the length of class, and I plan to have a bottle of lucozade within easy reach at the side of the pool).
Someone please give me a virtual kick up the rear, and tell me to get on with it!
Before being diagnosed as diabetic I'd let my weight get really out of hand due to illness and injury. I'd started to lose the weight slowly when diagnosed. I've been further hampered by more injuries, currently awaiting podiatry appointment for foot and all the doctor's said is 'non-weight bearing exercise'. Fair enough.
However, my mum's given me a couple of nasty frights where exercise and pushing yourself is concerned, and even though I know she's older and her diabetes is more advanced it's still freaking me out. She'd ended up in hospital in a diabetic coma with pneumonia a few years ago, which really knocked her health and fitness. She's slowly built herself back up to a minimum level of fitness that copes with all every day stuff. However, on a couple of occasions (when riding our horse) she's pushed herself to do more than she was up to, and all but fallen off having a hypo - the most recent one I actually thought she was going to pass out as she was that affected She's been diabetic for years, but I'd never seen a hypo before these incidents, and as medical stuff tends to scare me a bit anyway I was quite stressed by it.
I think it's due to the similarities (disregarding age/stage of diabetes) it freaks me out more - both unfit, both trying to regain fitness, she was doing something I want to get back to when she had the hypo...it's leaving me feeling really worried about how much I should push myself when I do exercise. I'm meant to be trying aqua-zumba for the first time next week, but I'm now worried in case I come over all shaky in the pool and can't get out (which IS really silly, I know I will be taking it easy the first time, with the aim being just to keep moving for the length of class, and I plan to have a bottle of lucozade within easy reach at the side of the pool).
Someone please give me a virtual kick up the rear, and tell me to get on with it!