Afternoon everyone from a newbie!!

[mrmessy]

I'm a 44 year old Type 1 diabetic. Had diabetes for about 23 years now (seems weird writing that down - it's ages!!). It's fairly well managed although I do need to cut back on alcohol, which will help fine tune my blood sugars. I was alerted to this forum via the Balance magazine, as I had read an item on frozen shoulders the other day in it, then today I went to a physio who diagnosed my arm pains with the exact same condition!! Have registered on here to find the thread that was being discussed, but I look forward to contributing to all the threads!

 

[Josh DUK]

I'm a 44 year old Type 1 diabetic. Had diabetes for about 23 years now (seems weird writing that down - it's ages!!). It's fairly well managed although I do need to cut back on alcohol, which will help fine tune my blood sugars. I was alerted to this forum via the Balance magazine, as I had read an item on frozen shoulders the other day in it, then today I went to a physio who diagnosed my arm pains with the exact same condition!! Have registered on here to find the thread that was being discussed, but I look forward to contributing to all the threads!

Hello @mrmessy ,

Thank you so much for joining our online community forum. I am pleased to hear that you are managiing your diabetes quite well and you are trying to find tune it. I think most of us will understand it is a balancing act. You mentioned that you were looking up threads for frozen shoulder. Below is a link to some of our frozen shoulder threads that may be helpful for you.

Search results for query: frozen shoulder

forum.diabetes.org.uk

 

[rebrascora]

Hi and welcome

Sorry to hear you are struggling with frozen shoulder. Hope the physio was able to help a bit. I haven't had it thankfully, so can't offer any personal thoughts but the threads on it that I have read seem to offer a wide variety of experiences. I hjope you find something which helps.

Would you like to tell us a bit more about how you manage your diabetes... ie MDI or Pump and which insulin(s) etc. Do you have Freestyle Libre?

Look forward to benefitting from your experience on some of the other threads... I'm still a relative newbie to diabetes at 22months but learning all I can here on the forum, which has been invaluable in helping me through the trials and tribulations since diagnosis. It is great to be able to communicate with people who face the same challenges and people have been so friendly here, it is very much a community. If you are interested in getting to know some of the regulars better, the "Group 7 day waking average" thread is a good place to post your daily fasting reading and share a bit of chat about your plans for the day or frustrations with your readings or have a bit of banter.... Might see you there tomorrow morning perhaps... PS. Don't feel you have to read it from scratch, just jump in at the end and you will soon get the hang of it.
This is it....Group 7-day waking average? | Page 3294 | Diabetes UK

 

[Ralph-YK]

Welcome to the forum Mrmessy. I'm 6 days 5 days in today.

 

[rebrascora]

@Ralph-YK I think you meant to Type 6yrs and 5 days!!... Have you recovered from your treacle sponge diaversary celebration??

 

[trophywench]

Always liked the Mr Men (good ole Roger Hargreaves) and if you knew me you'd appreciate that I could easily be Mrs M, since tidy I could never be in the reign of pig's pudding! Presentable, on a good day, well OK then. Maybe ...

 

[mrmessy]

Thanks all - I have a Dexcom G6 CGM, so I change the sensor on my stomach every 10 days, and it feeds my blood sugars (allowing for a 10-15min delay or so) into an app on my mobile phone.

I took the DAFNE course around 12 years ago, and have been carb counting ever since, with gradually better results as the years have gone by. I inject NovoRapid for my meals, and 23 units of Lantus in the evening. Looking forward to learning more from you all!

And @trophywench, I'm not really that messy, honest!!

 

[trophywench]

@mrmessy - just 😉

For ever, I have said to people same as my mate from school that if anyone EVER notices eg a cobweb in my house, or a picture not hanging exactly straight etc and it irks them, please feel free to sort it.

Had friends years ago - she was an inch shorter than me, I'm 5'3" so understand the prob perfectly, hence I offered to dust all the doorframes and door tops whenever we happened to visit, cos I can just reach em.

 

[SB2015]

When we take down the Christmas decorations we will do the annual clean on top of cupboards (replace the layer of newspaper we put there last year - excellent tip I was given) It is the numerous jugs we have hanging from our ceiling in our kitchen which look fine until we get up close!! They will also be shiny bright briefly)

Anyway I diverge.
Welcome to the forum @mrmessy . Good to have your experience on here. I am sorry to hear about your frozen shoulder. I hope that the physio helps, and things ease. I was surprised when I had it that there was one morning I woke and suddenly realised that reaching up for the mug out of the cupboard just didn’t hurt anymore. It took a while but it did go.

 

[trophywench]

LOL - it was when I stopped involuntarily dropping things and could steer the car without having my elbow on the armrest on the inside of the door I knew. TG the right arm was the worst, since we both had manuals. 😱