Jessitalia
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Haha thanks @slaxx. I do feel it’s a bit late now but that’s ok! Diabetes itself hasn’t REALLY stopped me doing anything but I think the shame has. I’m meant to be going to learn to ski with colleagues who don’t know I’m T1- how am I going to handle THAT?!
Thanks! You’re obviously right andI’ve just come back from skiing! You will be fine. My advice would be talk to your colleagues about diabetes - communication is key. Also go prepared... always have glucose tabs/meter to test on you. You’ve got this!
Thanks! You’re obviously right and
- how dumb is this- I think it’ll be a bigger deal that I’ve not told them before, rather than the Diabetes being a big deal!
Yeah I'm so pleased I just read that.Yeah, same feeling for more than 12 years. I'm 26 now and from my experience, announcing this out of nowhere is completely unnecessary & foolish, especially for people that you aren't (yet) close-friends with. If you don't hide it, you won't be called tommorow, next week, next month, especially when there is going to be something '' fun ''. You will be a boring loser that they need to get rid of as soon as possible. I 've been there many times ...
If a new friend wants to eat/drink something, you need to blend. Eat/drink whatever is on the table, if they want to go on a trip, go, do w/e they do then make up something to run back to your hole with full of drugs (insulin). If you start making up irrelavant excuses, one way or another you will get caught and when that happens you are no longer '' that cool guy '' sadly.
Living with this disability means you have to be a good actor, good liar who is able to bear the pain, ache, weakness without giving yourself away, until the moment you finally get a '' friend '' so close to you that he/she can no longer remove you from his/her life right away.
Even so, some people are clever and really good observers ... No matter how succesfully you play the '' cool guy '', they somehow suspect something and make you confess after a barrage of questions. Once a girl asked me out of nowhere '' Do you happen to be a diabetic or something ? '' at our first date (!) lol ... i was shocked, asked her '' How did you know ? '', she spoke about my skin-tone's looking different everytime and me being overall sweaty, dull just like her uncle ... never called or texted me after that day ofc.
Life is a race, war, challenge ... my friend. Just like how you would want a beautiful gf, cool/fun friend group ... they want the same. No one sincerely wants a hump on their backs to carry everywhere or even adapt their enjoyable lifes according to that boring disabled loser ...
So there is nothing wrong with hiding it. You are not in denial. Not every sad people are in depression or have psychological disorder. Like how happiness is normal for humans, sadness is also normal, especially when you have a good reason for it.
Why on earth should being diabetic stop you from being a doctor? Yes, the army's out, so is being an astronaut and, I believe, an airline pilot, but I can't see why diabetes should prevent anyone from taking up a career in medicine....I was 7 when I was told I couldn’t be a doctor
me too im a type 1 diabetic had it for 6 years at first i hid it too now , when i was first diagnosed a bloke kicked off shouting at me calling my a junkey he told a police officer who came over to me , the police officer when he found out it was diabetes told me it was ok and gave the other bloke a telling off for waisting police time.I am Type 2 (diet only). I was diagnosed 4 years ago at the age of 66. I am not at all ashamed. Why should I be? It wasn't my fault despite what the media says. I have told anyone who was interested enough to listen, and I have never felt I am being judged. If anyone is judging me they are keeping it well hidden. My food choices do come under scrutiny though!!
It was 1990. I think the long hours and stress?! Bizarre.Why on earth should being diabetic stop you from being a doctor? Yes, the army's out, so is being an astronaut and, I believe, an airline pilot, but I can't see why diabetes should prevent anyone from taking up a career in medicine....
Hey im sorry i haven't been on this site for a while so have only just seen this. Would you mind me having the name of your insta page? Im really struggling with my diabetes and i think i need to start talking to people around my age who have it but i unfortunately live on the isle of wight and don't know any other diabeticsI used to feel like that and would avoid talking about it but since I’ve got the Libre people tend to say ‘what’s that?’ and make some kind of a joke about looking like a pager I tell them I’m diabetic and often people are curious to find out more. I also respond if someone is commenting on what I’m eating or trying to persuade me to eat a donut brought for the office!
I’ve recently set up a page on Instagram and it’s pretty amazing how open and proud many people are with diabetes.
Yes so do I try to educate people who deal with the public in shops etc.to keep lucozade in just in case and explain to them to look out for signs if possible do not give food to them and loads of different ideas and how to cope whether they listen or not at least they know if things happen like this around them.Just a comment about the "stigma" of diabetes. When I became diabetic (1970) half the people at the diabetic clinic were T1s, so there wasn't any "fat and lazy" preconception because half the diabetics got it as a "skinny" pre 30 T1. In those days, young people got T1, "old" people got T2, a few young people had gestational diabetes which turned into T1 if you had too many pregnancies, and that was about it on the form diabetes could take.... There weren't any fat T1s, and there weren't any thin T2s. Obviously, we know that things aren't so simple now! But it does explain why I never felt any stigma about my diabetes, and the people I told about it were interested rather than accusing. Oh, and in those days most GPs lost at least one new T1 patient because they didn't diagnose them in time. (Hopefully that isn't the case now.) I've always felt that I'm doing a public service by educating as many people as possible about hypos!
I often travel in planes for long-haul trips for my job, so sitting there I don't want all the trouble of sneaking off to the toilet just to take my insulin or measure my bg. I stopped doing that probably after having type1 for maybe 1 years or so. So I just pull down the side of my pants right yen and there or open my shirt front and shoot away!If anyone finds a way to mention it (or do something obvious like inject in front of someone) without it becoming a subject for the rest of the day, please tell me.