alexharrop
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Hello!
Im not sure if anyone remembers me, but I was here in about June talking about being suicidal and not having support. I still do have suicidal thoughts sometimes but my support system has gotten a lot better and I feel more able to talk to my support team about it. One major update is that I've managed to do stomach injections!!
This might not seem big to anyone else but basically I'd only been doing leg injections for a long time and because my blood sugars were all over the place, I had to do more of them. This made my legs a lot more resistant and eventually they ended up just straight up rejecting insulin. After some great news (a friend of mine who got his leg amputated got his prosthetic!) I was torn between being happy and upset (at this point the pain of doing an injection made me sad because I had to keep injection into bruises) and decided this couldn't go on. I already felt the effects of being high for too long (vision, kidneys ect) and decided to go for it. And so the first stomach injection was done!!
It's been a massive help, the insulin resistance and bumps in my legs have already begun to heal over and I no longer have to go to the bathroom at college to do injections! Thought I'd share this here
Alex
Im not sure if anyone remembers me, but I was here in about June talking about being suicidal and not having support. I still do have suicidal thoughts sometimes but my support system has gotten a lot better and I feel more able to talk to my support team about it. One major update is that I've managed to do stomach injections!!
This might not seem big to anyone else but basically I'd only been doing leg injections for a long time and because my blood sugars were all over the place, I had to do more of them. This made my legs a lot more resistant and eventually they ended up just straight up rejecting insulin. After some great news (a friend of mine who got his leg amputated got his prosthetic!) I was torn between being happy and upset (at this point the pain of doing an injection made me sad because I had to keep injection into bruises) and decided this couldn't go on. I already felt the effects of being high for too long (vision, kidneys ect) and decided to go for it. And so the first stomach injection was done!!
It's been a massive help, the insulin resistance and bumps in my legs have already begun to heal over and I no longer have to go to the bathroom at college to do injections! Thought I'd share this here
Alex