NoKindOfSusie
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
@NoKindOfSusie, in different posts You said you elected to skip the stage when you’re put on a fixed insulin regime so that your ratios and basal can be calculated, which would have enabled you to find out how much to inject for what you chose to eat
I believe that everyone has strong opinions.could be about health, exercise, the best way to invest money, how to tread lightly on the earth and the rest. It's good that we all don't agree. I'm sorry that doing exercise is not on for you at the moment. I'm not a great exercise fan but I do the stuff in the chair and do lots of squiggling, even little bits help.... dancing in the kitchen, swishing in the bathroom... and running like s**t up and down stairs. I'm 8months in T1D and I do remember how I used to be able to sit down to a meal without having to prepare. It sucks now!!!! AND I do remember BUT I'd rather be able to inject and live and have fun. Yeah, I agree @NoKindOfSusie that it's different. I reckon we've just got one chance of making our lives magic so you, me and all the others on the forum can either just say everything is c**p and we've got a rubbish life and that it all stinks. OR, as I like to think, there are so many things to experience, so much to do and learn and read that having a label of T1D is not going to stop us and certainly not me. Age does not come into how we feel about what we've got, it's a challenge and I'm certainly going to kick the s**t out of this. Tell you what @NoKindOfSusie, it's not much fun having diabetes and can do your brain in or fight the f*****I really, really wish people would stop banging on about physical activity. I would love to. The fact that I can't absolutely kills me. It is not a choice. I have never felt this sick for this long and it is just grinding me down. It's almost starting to just be normal now but every so often I just end up leaning on something going "oh god" and it hits you.
You win the Most Accurate Comment Ever On This Forum award.It sucks now!!!!
I value my eyesight, my toes, my kidneys, ... my life.And no I am not going to start eating chocolate cookies as I value my toes and my eyesight.
And you don't feel that involves a stupid amount of risk for the sake of a chocolate cookie?I have learnt how to eat chocolate cookies whilst taking my insulin so that my BG does not spend hours high and risk my life.
YOU may be able to do that. I'm not telling anyone else what to do.with the tools we now have we can achieve this and eat chocolate biscuits too.
YOU may be able to do that. I'm not telling anyone else what to do.
The answer may be that I am just an idiot in which case OK I am an idiot.
No. I don’t believe it is ANY amount of added risk through having diabetes.And you don't feel that involves a stupid amount of risk for the sake of a chocolate cookie?
I'm glad you said that not me.When doing my DAFNE course, one person in the group brought up the amount of people sat in clinic in wheelchairs/with limbs missing/grossly overweight/eye problems etc, each time they attended. She was understandably worried.
The DNS answer....it is the same people there all the time, they attend for clinic care every week. They are all type 2 patients who have disregarded their diagnosis and carried on in the same way they always have. There was not one type 1 or pro active type 2 amongst them. Food for thought!!
Not saying it doesn’t happen, but with the tools at our service in this modern age, and vigilance (but enjoyment of food also) it should be a lesser problem. As I’ve said before, I believe it is about moderation. There is not enough time evidence yet for totally low carb. It is still in it’s infancy. As the papers said today there is a rise in bowel cancer from eating too much meat. The results will be beyond my lifetime but the outcome of LCHF will eventually show through. It may be positive it may not.
I will continue with a healthy, lowish carb, balanced diet. And enjoy myself to my upmost.
In that regard I have just enjoyed my favourite once every so often naughty. A chocolate eclair! 20 carbs, about 3 units for me at lunchtime. 4 hours later my Libre is still steady as she goes. This is a piece of kit that allows me to monitor my insulin needs to the nth degree. I bet a non diabetic person, having eating an eclair and wearing a Libre would not be showing the straight line I have now. They do not have my advantage of an insulin pen and are just reliant on their body.
How do you know what I ignored?
I don't think anyone's lying. I think some people might be mistaken, forgetful, speaking beyond their experience, trying to be nice, or assuming that their experiences will play out for everyone.I can see why you’re frightened: the visual often makes a stronger impression than the written, and if you’ve not met any of us then it’d be easy to think we were lying.
The casualties of diabetes are probably more likely to be in a hospital waiting room than those who are living successfully with T1. Do you know if the poor people you’ve seen there are T1 or T2?
I doubt that you’ll believe that it’s possible to have a long and cheerful, complication-free life with T1 so I’m not going to say any more except that I hope you prove yourself wrong.
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