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Type one diabetes

Jed.s

Well-Known Member
Messages
88
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hey, I am a type one diabetic in Australia I’m 20 years old and I’ve had it ever since I was 15 this is the first time I’ve thought about becoming apart of the community I have decided to for the support and to know I’m not alone or we are not alone I fight this disease everyday like everyone of you strong people out there I completely understand what you’re going through
 
Hi and welcome aboard, lots of helpful members on here with a couple or a lot of diabetes years under their belts.
Nice to meet you @Jed.s
 
Hi @Jed.s - you are not alone!
 

Hello friend, welcome to the squad.
You are never alone and we sail this boat together
 
Welcome, Jed.s from a fellow Australian. You've been on insulin a lot longer than I have but there are loads of experienced members here that are super cool at answering questions and solving problems. I hope you like cricket. I'm feeling outnumbered here with the Ashes test matches on at the moment.
 
@Jed.s . Welcome to the forum.
There are a few Aussies lurking around the forum, doing a great job of providing night cover for us pommies.
Nice to have a new T1 recruit to the ranks.
 
Hello and welcome @Jed.s

Tell us more about your diabetes management and how are you finding it living with type 1 ?
 
Juicyj said:
Hello and welcome @Jed.s

Tell us more about your diabetes management and how are you finding it living with type 1 ?
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It’s so relentless diabetes is never easy I’m constantly in pain because of my blood sugars sometimes I don’t even have to have high bloods to feel like I have ketones and I’m doing my best to keep my bloods on the right number I despise people who can just eat without worrying about carbs I look at them eating a snickers bar without a card in the works but me if I wanted a treat I have to inject insulin with anything that has carbs in it but I guess that’s just what diabetes is
 
Hi @Jed.s What type of pain are you getting and have you by seen by your doctor ?

Agree it’s relentless, for me the pain is where it interferes with a ‘normal’ life, so out and about and bam a hypo appears from no where, then the days when you feel like your on a roller coaster and levels are swinging high and low. What I do however is to keep challenging myself, so to exercise more, run a race, go biking, anything that takes my mind off it as that’s where I get respite from the sheer relentlessness of it.

I recommend you get a copy of ‘think like a pancreas’ written by a type 1, it’s a really useful read
 
Not bothered by Snickers bars myself but do still dream of a baguette and Camembert as a picnic foodstuff. Working out the bolus on that would be too complicated.
 
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