Diagnosed in January - its been a rocky year!

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I'd also love to hear any tips for those days when you try your best and your levels are all over the shop and you think 'I just can't do this any more'! How do you all try combat that feeling?

Ah man! I recognise that SO much. I think T1 would be an awful lot easier to live with if you could carefully work through problem-solving various different meals / situations and then that learning and the approaches and workarounds you worked out would keep working.

Alas it seems that T1 isn’t built that way. There are suggested to be 42 factors that might (or might not!) influence BG outcomes at any moment - so it’s hardly surprising that some of our educated guesswork doesn’t quite work out sometimes!

Give yourself soem credit for the awesome job you are already doing... standing in for a major organ, and raising a little one at the same time!

In fact I think you would be perfectly justified in standing on a table and loudly shouting “I am a blood glucose GENIUS” whenever you next negotiate a tricky meal bolus and get a nicely in-range result 🙂

 

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I wondered if this thread of ‘top tips’ might make interesting reading?

5 Top Tips for Better Diabetesing

Just found myself absently wondering what I would say to myself if I could go back in time ‘Bill and Ted’ style and offer newly-diagnosed-me some hints and tips for better diabetes management, and a better relationship with my diabetes from future-me. What 5 hints and tips I might offer myself...

forum.diabetes.org.uk