Hi All

[Chocoholic]

Hi fellow diabetics. I'm new here and stumbled across this site when looking for info about losing some weight.
The site looks like a friendly one, so I decided to join.
Let me tell you a bit about myself. (Please feel free to nod off,when you get too bored!🙂
I was wrongly diagnosed with asthma around 2002. Had 10 months on an inhaler, before a first blood donoring session picked up I was diabetic. I had 5 years being treated as a Type 2 before chatting online with fellow diabetics who suspected I might be Type 1 and advised me to ask for referral to a diabetologist for a GAD test. I did that and it came back positive. The specialist told me I had LADA but he said from that point I would be labelled and treated as Type 1.
I manage my diabetes quite well but the past six months have been somewhat trying for other health reasons. I do have Alopecia Areata (just one perfectly round smooth bald patch on my head about the size of a fifty pence piece and also the start of vitiligo on my lower arms but had those for a while.
Last September saw me have much pain,including a frozen shoulder and several neurological problems, which resulted in a brain scan fairly recently. I also have chronic insomnia.The brain scan was okay but the neurologist thinks I have blocked nerves in my brain that are causing a lot of my problems,so he has prescribed me some tablets. Unfortunately, me and medication don't seem to mix. I've tried three different tablets in recent weeks,two had me ending up in A & E and another gave me momentary black outs. Some medication gave me panic attacks and I've never had those before in my life but OMG,they were terryfying.
I've been told I'm just someone who is very sensitive to medication but I'm really hoping this one works. I have an awful lot of stress in my life,with a severely disabled brother and a mother in end stage heart failure and I'm often in an ambulance with one or the other of them. My G.P. And neurologist think all this stress and the insomnia are behind my own current medical problems and it's true that normally I cope with all the rushing around,no problem but with enormous pain from my frozen shoulder and no sleep, I just seem to be struggling with it all at the moment.
Have you nodded off yet?
Anyway, today, I am feeling a bit more positive and decided I need to lose some weight. It has crept on over the last year and the new tablets I'm on warn of weight gain as the most likely side effect too. Great!
Well, time I did something about it! I belong to an NHS walking group,so walk three times a week (more in the summer).
I'm never going to be Kate Moss but with a BMI of 26, I am now classed as 'overweight'.
To all those still reading this marathon posting......thanks for staying with me and I look forward to chatting to you all!

 

[bigheadmike]

welcome to the forum chocoholic,

sorry to hear about you many issues. this forum is a great place for info and advice. have a look in the weight loss section perhaps and good luck.

 

[sunday1980]

Welcome to the boards🙂 only recently joined myself but people here are lovely and supportive.

You have alot going on in your life no wonder you are stressed, all that would tax anybody! Life needs a pause button in my opinion 🙂 do take good care of yourself though and take some time each day to just sit and do something relaxing. You're more use to those who need you that way 🙂

 

[Pete H]

Welcome chocoholic, when your stressed come on here and blow some steam off... And best of luck trying to get your weight down 🙂

 

[Chocoholic]

Thanks all for your kind welcome and love the bullfinch photo, Pete....my favourite garden bird. 🙂

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hello Chocoholic and welcome to the forum. With the amount of stress you are under it's no wonder you have a fried brain and lack of sleep 😱

 

[Redkite]

Welcome to the forum Chocoholic 🙂. Chocolate is my greatest weakness too, and I have also seen my weight creeping up, so good luck with your weight loss attempt, and maybe I will take a leaf out of your book!

Sorry to hear about the difficult time you've been having recently - rotten luck when the medicine causes worse problems than the original symptoms. Hope you find some effective tablets that suit you. It is very hard being a carer to your Mum and brother as well as coping with your own health problems - do you have any support?

 

[Pete H]

Thanks all for your kind welcome and love the bullfinch photo, Pete....my favourite garden bird. 🙂

You and me both, and the spectacular King Fisher.....

 

[Chocoholic]

You and me both, and the spectacular King Fisher.....

I waited for years to see a beautiful kingfisher and finally spotted one at my favourite holiday haunt...a tiny place called Leryn,in Cornwall. It's a hidden gem of a place that moves me to tears whenever I stand and look down river. Mind you I'm such a blubber guts,so it doesn't take much to set me off.
I was stunned at how fast a kingfisher flies though. No wonder they are so hard to photograph!

 

[Pete H]

I waited for years to see a beautiful kingfisher and finally spotted one at my favourite holiday haunt...a tiny place called Leryn,in Cornwall. It's a hidden gem of a place that moves me to tears whenever I stand and look down river. Mind you I'm such a blubber guts,so it doesn't take much to set me off.
I was stunned at how fast a kingfisher flies though. No wonder they are so hard to photograph!

There are two birds I have walked miles for ( the feathered type ) that's a cuckoo which took me three years to finally see kept hearing but never find and it's only over here for a few weeks every year but as I say I did finally see, then I was so fortunate to watch two kingfishers feeding there young in the side of a river bank, they were diving into the river catching small fish and feeding there young, I watched them for hours absolutely stunning, normally it's just a blue flash and they have gone, you could not paint a bird any prettier than what nature has done for the Kingfisher..

 

[Chocoholic]

Pete: I too have seen a cuckoo but only briefly and he kept hiding from me.....in a wooden box. I think it was a very shy bird but oh,...... how I used to love that cuckoo clock my grandmother owned!

Redkite: Thank you for your message.
My mother is in a warden assisted flat and my brother is in a nursing home. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy. They both live approx. 10 minutes from me and even though I have a sister just round the corner from me, it's usually me that is first to step in and help. I won't bad mouth her though.We are just different.
Only last night, I found myself in an ambulance again with my brother and spent another all-nighter in A & E but its just the way it is. I've grown up with wanting to protect him and be there for him whenever I can.the same with my mother. I like to be there for her whenever I can. I think this is why I'm feeling bad at the moment.....because I don't have good health myself and seem unable to handle the stress of rushing around like I normally do. Perhaps I need to do a Popeye and down a few cans of spinach!