Diagnosed with Type1, January 2014, at the age of 54. Managing well, but after the initial year of just getting on with it now feeling fed up with the relentless grind of it. I think I need to accept that my levels will not always be correct and cut myself some slack.
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Becca_59
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Northerner
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Hi Becca, welcome to the forum 🙂 I was diagnosed aged 49, now 56 - it comes as quite a shock at our age doesn't it? How did you come to be diagnosed?
It can get on top of you from time to time, and can be incredibly frustrating, so I think you are right - we do have to cut ourselves some slack and not be too hard on ourselves. Playing the part of a pancreas can be very demanding at times, it is, after all, a very complex and finely-tuned process, and the tools we have to mimic it are very crude in comparison. What insulin regime are you on?
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, or let rip if you want to have a good rant - you're among friends here who understand the ups and downs! 🙂
It can get on top of you from time to time, and can be incredibly frustrating, so I think you are right - we do have to cut ourselves some slack and not be too hard on ourselves. Playing the part of a pancreas can be very demanding at times, it is, after all, a very complex and finely-tuned process, and the tools we have to mimic it are very crude in comparison. What insulin regime are you on?
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, or let rip if you want to have a good rant - you're among friends here who understand the ups and downs! 🙂
Hi Northener
Had the usual symptoms, weight loss, thirst, fatigue. Even though I have a brother that has had Type 1 for 35 years missed the signals and put it down to a virus. Am on Humalog, 1 unit to 10, after nearly a year of half a unit. And Lantus 9 units, also a recent increase. Keep fit by swimming most days before work and eat very healthily. Both of which I have always done. Thanks for your words of support.
Had the usual symptoms, weight loss, thirst, fatigue. Even though I have a brother that has had Type 1 for 35 years missed the signals and put it down to a virus. Am on Humalog, 1 unit to 10, after nearly a year of half a unit. And Lantus 9 units, also a recent increase. Keep fit by swimming most days before work and eat very healthily. Both of which I have always done. Thanks for your words of support.
Redkite
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Welcome to the forum Becca_59 🙂. I agree it's relentless, and it never fails to annoy me when people say my son was "lucky" to be diagnosed aged 4 because "he'll never know any different". The fact of the matter is that his carefree childhood was taken away, nothing can ever just be spontaneous and fun, everything has to be planned, and discrimination and obstacles to his participation have constantly to be fought against and overcome. But no choice except to persevere and do your best day after day....
Copepod
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Welcome to the forum, Becca_59. Menopause is an added complication for women, whether diagnosed before, during or after. Cutting slack is a good approach, but also worth asking to be referred to a menopause clinic if treatment offered by your GP doesn't work adequately for you.
Hope you don't rely on HGV / PSV / minibus driving licence, prefessional SCUBA diving qualifications etc for your job, as that can throw your career completely - it made my BSc Marine Biology gained in my later 20s, just before diagnosis aged 30, virtually useless. If I'd known, I would have done a different degree. Plus I couldn't rejoin TA, which I'd left to work overseas, which is where type 1 diabetes showed at a SCUBA diving medical.
Carry on swimming 🙂 Perhaps add a challenge such as open water swimming [unless that's what you do every day anyway?] or add cycling & running to be a triathlete? I don't compete in triathons, just mountain running navigation races, orienteering etc, plus a few running / biking navigation races, but do marshal at lots of triathlons, mountain races, dirt runs, Blacklight Runs etc, and there are 2 marshals at Just Racing UK with type 1 diabetes - the other does triathlons.
Hope you don't rely on HGV / PSV / minibus driving licence, prefessional SCUBA diving qualifications etc for your job, as that can throw your career completely - it made my BSc Marine Biology gained in my later 20s, just before diagnosis aged 30, virtually useless. If I'd known, I would have done a different degree. Plus I couldn't rejoin TA, which I'd left to work overseas, which is where type 1 diabetes showed at a SCUBA diving medical.
Carry on swimming 🙂 Perhaps add a challenge such as open water swimming [unless that's what you do every day anyway?] or add cycling & running to be a triathlete? I don't compete in triathons, just mountain running navigation races, orienteering etc, plus a few running / biking navigation races, but do marshal at lots of triathlons, mountain races, dirt runs, Blacklight Runs etc, and there are 2 marshals at Just Racing UK with type 1 diabetes - the other does triathlons.
stephknits
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Welcome Becca, another late developer here! Diagnosed aged 42, now 44. for me it is definitely the foreverness and monotony that gets to me, although I am lucky not to have any complications and to be otherwise fit and healthy. For the first year I was learning and adjusting and sorting stuff out. Still lots to learn but am feeling less and less inclined to do so.
Lots of lovely people here, glad you found us 🙂
Lots of lovely people here, glad you found us 🙂
trophywench
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Hi Becca
Welcome and all that - but I'm puzzled as to why you think you should even strive to perfect BG numbers constantly? Non diabetics don't stay at perfect levels 100% of the time, so how the hell could we do it?
We all louse it up from time to time - forget to bolus or forget to basal, calculate the carbs wrong and thus the insulin needed, have a spike after 5 or 6 hours have passed after eating pasta, hypo hours and hours after taking exercise, or when walking round Tesco - whenever or whatever - NOBODY human is perfect EVER.
DO NOT beat yourself up for it - it's a total and utter waste of time.
The ONLY important thing is actually recognising WHY something unwanted has happened - and then correcting it at that time if necessary - and then giving it some thought, to see if there's a way you could have prevented it by doing something 'every time I eat pasta' or 'to remind me at bedtime to take my basal' or whatever fits the glitch.
If BGs are being bananas and you can't recognise why - come on here and ASK!!! Chances are that someone - if not a whole gang of us - will have had something similar happen and can say, Aaah, well you probably need to do this or that, which works for me.
It's absolutely great when several people all say the same thing because it makes you realise a) you aren't stupid having done it and b) what they suggest could actually work !
It's very comforting when you know you aren't alone.
Welcome and all that - but I'm puzzled as to why you think you should even strive to perfect BG numbers constantly? Non diabetics don't stay at perfect levels 100% of the time, so how the hell could we do it?
We all louse it up from time to time - forget to bolus or forget to basal, calculate the carbs wrong and thus the insulin needed, have a spike after 5 or 6 hours have passed after eating pasta, hypo hours and hours after taking exercise, or when walking round Tesco - whenever or whatever - NOBODY human is perfect EVER.
DO NOT beat yourself up for it - it's a total and utter waste of time.
The ONLY important thing is actually recognising WHY something unwanted has happened - and then correcting it at that time if necessary - and then giving it some thought, to see if there's a way you could have prevented it by doing something 'every time I eat pasta' or 'to remind me at bedtime to take my basal' or whatever fits the glitch.
If BGs are being bananas and you can't recognise why - come on here and ASK!!! Chances are that someone - if not a whole gang of us - will have had something similar happen and can say, Aaah, well you probably need to do this or that, which works for me.
It's absolutely great when several people all say the same thing because it makes you realise a) you aren't stupid having done it and b) what they suggest could actually work !
It's very comforting when you know you aren't alone.
Bloden
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Hi Becca and welcome.🙂 I'm another late developer - diagnosed aged 41 in July 2008. You're right, it can feel relentless at times. My solution is just to keep reading and learning. Being part of this forum is a BIG help...make yorself at home.😛
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