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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NoKindOfSusie" data-source="post: 1639219" data-attributes="member: 441787">I was diagnosed on september 12, I had a trip to Australia (where I'm from) booked a few weeks later and assumed I wouldn't be able to do it, but the alternative was to waste the ticket and scare the hell out of my parents so I went. Then a week ago I got a call to go to Phoenix and Los Angeles on three days notice. So I went on that as well. I have done five long haul plane flights and one short hop and it seems fine. Security is the least of your troubles, if they give you any trouble they'll be looking for their jobs. Maybe it's because I'm used to getting huge cases full of weird looking movie equipment on planes but honestly the diabetes stuff has not been a big deal. I fly home tomorrow (long haul flight no. 6) and I have no fear on that basis.But it isn't all happy happy, joy joy. Walking? I don't dare walk anywhere. I don't dare really eat much and drinking is basically impossile so I either work or sit in a hotel and do nothing. Is it possible to travel with diabetes, sure, is it worth it, no not really. I'm sitting in a coffee shop at the corner of sunset and vine in Hollywood, this should be awesome, but I can't drink any of the drinks, I couldn't go on the walk up into the hollywood hills on sunday, I can't have any fun tonight because it will all be food and alcohol. I feel like a ghost. It makes me envy everyone around me who's having such a good time and I don't really want to be like that. So I won't pursue travelling. There's no point. It's not fun anymore, it just reminds me of how limited I am now. I just work and sleep and I can do that anywhere. Normally I'd be absolutely over the moon but there's just no joy in anything now.</blockquote>

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