• Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.
  • We seem to be having technical difficulties with new user accounts. If you are trying to register please check your Spam or Junk folder for your confirmation email. If you still haven't received a confirmation email, please reach out to our support inbox: support.forum@diabetes.org.uk

Feeling So Proud Of Myself!

Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.

Dan27

New Member
Relationship to Diabetes
Type 2
I had a meal tonight in a pub and done my first insulin injection in public. Just wanted to share how proud I feel of myself for doing this. Have been so nervous and apprehensive leading upto it. Knew it was to follow and have been planning it out in my head. It is a doodle. So easy don't know why I felt like I did. First of many more if need be in future. My blood sugars have been very stable and are not very often high now. Majority of the time they are within my target range. Two readings today. Morning 5.9 before breakfast and tonight 5.1 before the evening meal out. Feeling so happy and Proud!
 
Last edited:
Many years ago now, I was told by a waiter, who had discovered that I was diabetic, that he could not serve me anything as there was nothing on the menu suitable for diabetics.

I asked where he had taken his degree in medicine, and added that I had taken my degree in London. When he admitted that he did not hold any qualification I told him that he had better be guided by my superior knowledge, and that there was nothing on the menu that I could not eat, but much that I would not care to eat.

I did NOT tell him that I had studied Engineering in London, but sometimes one must stretch the truth as far as it will go.

After several decades of hiding in odd corners to inject I have just started to do it in public. I too am rather proud!
 
I am pleased for both of you. That first injection in public can be rather unnerving, it’s a relief when you suddenly realise no one has even noticed.
 
Well done! While it is appropriate to be sensitive to other people (there are a few who do have a phobia of seeing needles etc) you should never be made to feel that you should go somewhere unsanitary like a toilet to inject.

It’s perfectly possible to be very discreet and in all my years of injecting in public, I don’t think anyone noticed!
 
Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Back
Top