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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pinocchia" data-source="post: 106407" data-attributes="member: 23169">I'm so glad I found this forum! I'm from Argentina and we don't have sites like this. I sent my story to argentinian cosmopolitan and I'd like to share it with you. I have diabetes type 1 and got it when i was nearly 17; ironically i had stopped eating sugar a long time ago. It's funny how we ignore how life's gonna turn in the end.I stopped eating sugar when I was 12, almost 13. I started dieting excesively and restringd myself from a lots of different food items; I completely excluded sugar and carbs from my diet, because I started my career as a model. Unconciously, I ended up eating nothing but vegetables and fruits, which led to anemia, anorexia and bulimia, added to a bad relationship with my family and depression. I kept on saying that I had a balanced diet while I eat almost nothing. When I became aware that I was sick and asked for help, I quit the agency at the age of 16.At the beggining of 2007 I started taking theatre classes which relaxed me a lot, but I started to notice I had this feeling that I needed to consume sweet things. I had restricted myself from those for all those years and now that I was 'recovered' I allowed myself to eat a bit more. For months I eat lots of carbs -sugar and flour containing food- and noticed that I gained no weight. Even though I tried to mantain a balanced diet, I noticed that I drank almost 5 lts of water -I'm not lying-, peed (I'm not sure how to say it in english, sorry) like a horse and had all these red spots all over my face, shoulders and chest -which I had never had, not even a black-head. I also had lots of crams (when your muscles tighten up and hurt, don't know the exact word) and started having palpitations.I went to so many doctors which diagnosed so many different things, because when I told them that I ate balanced -even mentioning that I had those weired desires for sweets-, went to the gym, have an athletic figure (sorry if it's not right spelled), etc., they never though I would end up with diabetes. One of them gave me two shots of penicilin -very painful-, other one said it was the depression and send me a prescription for venlafaxine, and a few more diagnoses. The night before my come,  begged my mom to go and buy banans -which I hate- because I felt like having a banana milk shake -which i have!!!!- with sugar. When she got home I was on the floor, he called the  doctor who lives right in front of my house and took me to a clinic. I woke up two days after, with oxigen and suero (the thng that they put in your arm) and stayed there for two weeks; 8 days in ICU and the rest of the days iin the building upstairs.What I keep on saying to everyone is that, even though I have diabetes and it's in fact a disease, I'm much more healthier now than back then when my pancreas still pumped insulin. For almost the half of my life (yesterday I turned 19) I had thought I ate healthy while I wasn't aware that in the end that's how I would HAVE to eat.Greetings! Lola from Argentina.If anyone's interested in chatting, which I'd appreciate to do with some english speakers,please PM me.( Edited. Please do not put Email address on the public board unless you want about a million spam Emails from all over the internet. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> )Sugarless Sue Senior Moderator.</blockquote>

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