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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I’m 49 and got diagnosed type 1 about 8 years ago and also suffer with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder.
When I go into mental health crisis I will refuse to eat/drink for multiple days with a combination of either taking 2x dose of Tresiba or none at all, but I never get hungry. I only start eating again when I can see the impact of worry on my family and/or the crisis passes.
I fluctuate between carb counting every meal and taking a 4u:10g dose of Novorapid, to no carb counting while binge eating cakes/bread/sweets, to not eating. Majority of the time I will take the daily dose of tresiba to hold off a DKA but I do refuse that too on occasions.
My previous DKA was caused by body-dismorphic and refusal to take any insulin for months (am I truly type 1 if I can go months without insulin?).
My EUPD causes lots of issues with self-harming and suicidal thoughts which, because of my understanding of needing the insulin injects, turns that understanding into a weapon for immediate and long term self-harming due to knowing how much damage it could cause my body
My main question is - is it normal to not feel hungry when Type 1?
When I go into mental health crisis I will refuse to eat/drink for multiple days with a combination of either taking 2x dose of Tresiba or none at all, but I never get hungry. I only start eating again when I can see the impact of worry on my family and/or the crisis passes.
I fluctuate between carb counting every meal and taking a 4u:10g dose of Novorapid, to no carb counting while binge eating cakes/bread/sweets, to not eating. Majority of the time I will take the daily dose of tresiba to hold off a DKA but I do refuse that too on occasions.
My previous DKA was caused by body-dismorphic and refusal to take any insulin for months (am I truly type 1 if I can go months without insulin?).
My EUPD causes lots of issues with self-harming and suicidal thoughts which, because of my understanding of needing the insulin injects, turns that understanding into a weapon for immediate and long term self-harming due to knowing how much damage it could cause my body
My main question is - is it normal to not feel hungry when Type 1?