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<blockquote data-quote="Liz King" data-source="post: 449219" data-attributes="member: 85905"><p>Hiya, am also type 1 for over 30 years.</p><p>You need some time out - cant take a week, take a long weekend - plan it - go to a new town/village for aday with a friend who is supportive or go on your own (depending on your personality, and needs) explore slowly you have the time for a day - visit the art gallery, christmas fair, anything you dont normally do rushing around everywhere, have lunch and eat slowly - treat yourself with time, talk to people in the new environment. Get your hair done, go for a walk --do anything that you dont usually have time for - break away from the normal day to day overwhelming rushing around with no time to review, think or plan.</p><p>After a break from the norm, ask yourself if it is worth you taking a week out to do dafne? - it will change your life, give you more flexability, and thus hopefully improve your bg levels which in turn will give you more energy, and control, and improve your mood. For me it was the first time I had had any true education, as the last formal information I had been given was when being first diagnoised when you had to eat xxx food and therefore insulin remained the same - were you given one of those horrid glass syringes kept in surgical spirit???</p><p></p><p>Another quick thought, a couple of years ago I was suffering from overwhelming tiredness and heavy body got really depressed as I thought like you if "I feel like this in my 40's I'm not going to make or want to make 50" spoke to consultant, registar, GP etc all put it down to diabetes even though bg levels were OK. However, I moved area and my new consultant saw I had a high calcium level on regular clinic blood test - this was why I was feeling so ****- I had to have one of four glands removed which are connected/related to the thyroid - went in as day op; really quick op and next day I felt like I had lost three stone and my mental energy returned within a couple of days - couldnt believe the difference. So if your bg control is OK I would definately ask your consultant to check or run such a blood test, my new consultant said it was quite a common condition, although my new gp was good enough to admit he didnt know much about the calcium condition, so I wouldnt bother with GP. Oh and there is no follow on treatment as the other three glands are working OK - apparently it is usually only one gland which is affected.</p><p></p><p>Good luck, do give yourself some time, "You are worth it"...... sorry, couldnt resist!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Liz King, post: 449219, member: 85905"] Hiya, am also type 1 for over 30 years. You need some time out - cant take a week, take a long weekend - plan it - go to a new town/village for aday with a friend who is supportive or go on your own (depending on your personality, and needs) explore slowly you have the time for a day - visit the art gallery, christmas fair, anything you dont normally do rushing around everywhere, have lunch and eat slowly - treat yourself with time, talk to people in the new environment. Get your hair done, go for a walk --do anything that you dont usually have time for - break away from the normal day to day overwhelming rushing around with no time to review, think or plan. After a break from the norm, ask yourself if it is worth you taking a week out to do dafne? - it will change your life, give you more flexability, and thus hopefully improve your bg levels which in turn will give you more energy, and control, and improve your mood. For me it was the first time I had had any true education, as the last formal information I had been given was when being first diagnoised when you had to eat xxx food and therefore insulin remained the same - were you given one of those horrid glass syringes kept in surgical spirit??? Another quick thought, a couple of years ago I was suffering from overwhelming tiredness and heavy body got really depressed as I thought like you if "I feel like this in my 40's I'm not going to make or want to make 50" spoke to consultant, registar, GP etc all put it down to diabetes even though bg levels were OK. However, I moved area and my new consultant saw I had a high calcium level on regular clinic blood test - this was why I was feeling so ****- I had to have one of four glands removed which are connected/related to the thyroid - went in as day op; really quick op and next day I felt like I had lost three stone and my mental energy returned within a couple of days - couldnt believe the difference. So if your bg control is OK I would definately ask your consultant to check or run such a blood test, my new consultant said it was quite a common condition, although my new gp was good enough to admit he didnt know much about the calcium condition, so I wouldnt bother with GP. Oh and there is no follow on treatment as the other three glands are working OK - apparently it is usually only one gland which is affected. Good luck, do give yourself some time, "You are worth it"...... sorry, couldnt resist!! [/QUOTE]
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