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So fed up with everybody


Now that's interesting. i do agency work since gettin laid off from my last job. & the subject of "eating" come up a rules & regs on most positions.. This one young guy (bless him.) was very understanding of the D. But still thought we had to eat at "certain times"..? Even to the point of overt "political correctness".. (Lol back in the dark times maybe yes.) A quick up date & run down on T1. fair play the guy thanked me for the insight & was cool... He won't get no trouble from me!
 

Gosh, I had almost forgotten about the days of having to eat at specific times of the day lol it seems so long ago!
I was speaking about the old syringes I used to use when I had to draw the insulin out of the cartridge and mix it together, and use to do only two injections a day. Wow, how things have changed! (Sorry @Jaylee I know that was totally off topic, u just took me back with what u said).


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Sorry you missed out on the fruit salad I can understand your irritation about it! Nearly every day I say no thanks to food or drinks that people offer me and they know I'm diabetic, that's annoying too!
 

Those indeed were the "salad days".
 

My wife was a gestational diabetic with our last child. She was on insulin and the food guide they gave her had her eating all kinds of carbs. According to the sheets she should be eating 250g of carbs a day and at specific times of day. The amount of insulin she had to take was increasing every day and her sugars wouldn't come down. This was 15 years ago now.

Fast forward to this year and I'm diagnosed Type 2. My dietician gave me almost the exact same sheets of paper they gave my wife. If I follow them I'm be taking in 175 to 250 g of carbs a day and my numbers would be sky high. I jump on the internet and find this forum and learn about LCHF. Next thing you know I've got my numbers down to the pre-diabetic range.

I also feel for the OP as I get people trying to tell me what I can and can't eat. The one that bugs me the most are the ones who are self diagnosed diabetics who have never tested their BG. They are always telling me about this new wonder drug that cured them. It's always some herbalist bull **** that they hear on late night TV. Now don't get me wrong some herbs and such can do wonders. Just don't take the guy on TV's word for it.
 
Hi
Hi I totally understand how you feel I get very annoyed when people tell me I can't have something because I'm diabetic admitaly I do get a bit snappy and want to eat it all the more
 
Oh God yes I sympathise with this! The one and only person who bugs me is a woman I work with who somehow thinks what I eat concerns her. As a well - controlled type 2, one cake at a charity bake sale or a couple of chocs from someone's birthday box isn't going to make me keel over but I have to put up with comments like "I won't let you eat one I don't want to be responsible for you collapsing". It might sound like she's just concerned but the fact is she's just a nosy bossy woman who can't resist putting her nose into everyone's affairs. One day I couldn't stand it any longer and I told her it was none of her business what I ate, not her responsibility and as she obviously had no idea how diabetes works, to keep her nose out. She went strangely quiet.
On the opposite side of the coin, someone else at work told her workmate, R, that she was getting on her nerves "testing your blood all the time". R replied "excuse me for trying to save my life"
 
CONFUSED, diabete nurse says don't do butter seen my doctor lass week and was told butter NOT bad for you
B/s count very good three months test hb1ac gone back to 51 Then I realised I had had injection steroid
Just can't get hb1ac done to under 48 T2 since November 2015 I do have treats
 

I've had to use steroids a couple of times and they knocked my b.s. off kilter entirely. It will settle again.
 
I appreciate I am but VERY new to this world, however I want no one to know of my condition, it is my responsibility and have no itention of telling anyone who has no need to know. Part of my rationale in this is that (as above) there are those who will judge and want to interfere, and even if they say nothing I know they will think it around me and food. I am 'abnormal' and have to exist in a normal world and have to accept that. If I decline acceptance of choccy bics, cake etc and they don't know, that is a choice any normal person can (and often do) make, whereas if people do know THEY will make the decision not to offer, and equally if I do succumb and do have a 'treat' (not that I have to date) I know (again) I will be judged by the uninitiated (as indeed I was until 3 months ago). My mother in law I know would be the absolute worst if she did know- she is the worlds biggest hypochondriac and would know all about 'it' from one of her friends who's 'got it'! Equally I know only too well that all will judge WHY I'm now afflicted (as does society) and in my case they are right - I ticked all the boxes, so can do without the sanctimonioum thank you!
There are many others that live wth conditions, some significantly worse than 'it' that require dietary restrictions who don't feel the need to wear a badge' or tell anyone - so why do I?
As a footnote I fully realise I am speaking as T2D and that it is possibly different for T1D.
In short, my condition, my fault, my privacy to get in with it!
P.S. It still hurts like hell to be in a room
Full of people munching chocolate digestives at meetings - and I can't have one. (
 
shamefully I have punched someone for the exact same situation, they soon realised diabetes doesn't effect my reaction time...
 
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