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Vix said:
Thanks,

A poem sounds less dangerous than baking 😉 Although baking is probably the easier option of the 2 for me! It's difficult not to feel angry isn't it!! Not helped by other people's ignorance - of course I must just be eating sweets if my BM is high or not eating properly if I have a hypo or being melodramatic if I burst into tears for no apparent reason when my BM is 20... I feel another poem coming on at this rate 😉

Hope your control improves Laura

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Yeah I heard a cracker of a question about diabetes today "can you catch diabetes?" I had to walk away

Me too, I was hypo when I got in from work. I ended up falling & cracking my head on the bookcase :(
 
Vix said:
oooh I just noticed you're from Leeds so local to me too 🙂 xx
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Oooohhh!!! You at Jimmy's for your care then?
 
I don't think I would have been able to stop myself laughing at that question but then again can we blame people for their ignorance? I was 12 when diagnosed and only knew about it because my brother was diagnosed a couple of years earlier... My friend have known me for many years and still don't fully understand it, I think only people who have diabetes or those who live with us can truly grasp the impact it has - people often assume that the only problem is that we can't eat chocolate and trust me if I could live without diabetes for just one day it wouldn't be the chocolate that I would want first, it would be the lack of mood swings, lack of injections, lack of blood test etc etc etc!

Ouch, I hope you're ok!! Can you tell quite early when you're having a hypo? I'm lucky I seem to have good warning signs but if my brother is hypo in the night he doesn't wake up and there have been several times his wife has woken to find him in a coma!.. Hope your head feels better soon and your level stabilise - do you do glargine once a day or split it?

I'm at Airedale now - we just moved back up from London and it's strange being back at the hospital where I was diagnosed!

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Vix said:
I don't think I would have been able to stop myself laughing at that question but then again can we blame people for their ignorance? I was 12 when diagnosed and only knew about it because my brother was diagnosed a couple of years earlier... My friend have known me for many years and still don't fully understand it, I think only people who have diabetes or those who live with us can truly grasp the impact it has - people often assume that the only problem is that we can't eat chocolate and trust me if I could live without diabetes for just one day it wouldn't be the chocolate that I would want first, it would be the lack of mood swings, lack of injections, lack of blood test etc etc etc!

Ouch, I hope you're ok!! Can you tell quite early when you're having a hypo? I'm lucky I seem to have good warning signs but if my brother is hypo in the night he doesn't wake up and there have been several times his wife has woken to find him in a coma!.. Hope your head feels better soon and your level stabilise - do you do glargine once a day or split it?

I'm at Airedale now - we just moved back up from London and it's strange being back at the hospital where I was diagnosed!

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The girls at work bake & tell me I can't have what they've made.
I nicely say I'm the diabetic not you & know what I can eat.
Oh I'd love no injections, blood tests, bruises & worrying about night hypos.

I have gone back to 1 injection of glargine, I split it a bit a go as per my consultants instructions but I kept forgetting the morning dose & it was stressing me out.

I can tell unless I'm ill but I was all hot & bothered when I came in from
Being on a packed bus & stupidly put it down to that not the diabetes.

I can imagine it is, I've been at Jimmy's most of my diabetic life.
I know you said about your levels & conceiving, have you asked for a pump?
 
Hee hee, you'll have to post pics of your baking Laura 🙂 or of course your poem if that wins! One day, that is my dream that I will have a day with no injections etc etc etc! Mind you I've been hearing that for the past 18 years - 'research is improving.' At least now I've 'grown up' I don't have to be a guinea pig for all the blood tests as my brother, cousin and I all got diabetes within 2 years and there's no history of it in the family so they were trying to see if they could find a link... to no avail!

I've only ever done 1 glargine injection (until a couple of years ago I was still on 2 injections a day only!!) so I think it's got to be worth a go trying 2... but I can see why it would stress you out if you forgot one - I sometimes forgot to inject at meal times when I went onto 4 a day, my husband had to ask me after every meal if I'd done my injection!!

I know what you mean, I often neglect my hypos because I think it's something else that's making me hot and bothered

The idea of a pump really doesn't appeal to me, i have enough constant reminders that I am a diabetic without something attached to me 24/7! I see it more as a last resort, having said that if something doesn't improve soon it may become more of a possibility as I'm getting pretty desperate to get my levels under control... have your BMs just gone off recently or have they been a bit wonky for a while? I'm recovering from hip surgery so I'd put it down to that for a bit but now I know that there's more to it than that and something isn't working! Have you considered a pump?

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Vix said:
Hee hee, you'll have to post pics of your baking Laura 🙂 or of course your poem if that wins! One day, that is my dream that I will have a day with no injections etc etc etc! Mind you I've been hearing that for the past 18 years - 'research is improving.' At least now I've 'grown up' I don't have to be a guinea pig for all the blood tests as my brother, cousin and I all got diabetes within 2 years and there's no history of it in the family so they were trying to see if they could find a link... to no avail!

I've only ever done 1 glargine injection (until a couple of years ago I was still on 2 injections a day only!!) so I think it's got to be worth a go trying 2... but I can see why it would stress you out if you forgot one - I sometimes forgot to inject at meal times when I went onto 4 a day, my husband had to ask me after every meal if I'd done my injection!!

I know what you mean, I often neglect my hypos because I think it's something else that's making me hot and bothered

The idea of a pump really doesn't appeal to me, i have enough constant reminders that I am a diabetic without something attached to me 24/7! I see it more as a last resort, having said that if something doesn't improve soon it may become more of a possibility as I'm getting pretty desperate to get my levels under control... have your BMs just gone off recently or have they been a bit wonky for a while? I'm recovering from hip surgery so I'd put it down to that for a bit but now I know that there's more to it than that and something isn't working! Have you considered a pump?

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My bm's are normally very good but my grandad went into hospital 1 february & sadly died on valentines day so they've gone off a bit since then.
I have a pump appointment in April, I've been rejected once before for one but I want an easier (hahahaha!!!) diabetes life as I get paranoid about forgetting pens, cartridges etc
 
Sorry to hear that hun, not good at the best of times but it's ironic that stress causes our levels to go off which makes it even more stressful! I was really against the pump but so many people seem to really rate it so I will watch this space 😉 I don't worry about forgetting my injections, it's just the numerous tablets I'm for other medical conditions that I have trouble remembering!! xx
 
Vix said:
Sorry to hear that hun, not good at the best of times but it's ironic that stress causes our levels to go off which makes it even more stressful! I was really against the pump but so many people seem to really rate it so I will watch this space 😉 I don't worry about forgetting my injections, it's just the numerous tablets I'm for other medical conditions that I have trouble remembering!! xx
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My levels weren't this bad when my gran died, just think my body has thought sod it.
Yeah I've heard good stuff about the pump & my nurse raves about them. I have everything crossed that I get it this time.

I know that feeling, I have to take tablets too but forget
 
the body is a weird things at the best of times hey 😉

Hope you get the pump, and would love to hear how you get on with it!

Right, better go and take my tablets now - don't forget yours!

Have a good day

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Hi Vix

Another welcome 🙂
 
thanks everydayupsanddowns 🙂
 
Lauras87 said:
Yeah I heard a cracker of a question about diabetes today "can you catch diabetes?" I had to walk away...
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Isn't that one you either counter with "Is stupidity contagious too?" or tell them that it is and they only have to be within a meter of you to catch it and the only cure is to sit with there head between their legs singing "itsy bitsy poka do bikini" loudly in a public place?
 
Mark T said:
Isn't that one you either counter with "Is stupidity contagious too?" or tell them that it is and they only have to be within a meter of you to catch it and the only cure is to sit with there head between their legs singing "itsy bitsy poka do bikini" loudly in a public place?
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Hahaha!!! I will have to try that
 
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