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Hello, newly diabetic Type 1
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Flower
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Hi @Blueboy83 and welcome
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I hope things are settling down and you’re feeling much better with a restored insulin supply. It is a big shock at first and you have to hit the ground running. Please ask any questions you’ve got there’s years of combined diabetes experience on here.
Eyesight is one of the main things affected around the time of diagnosis. The lens in the eye has been bathed in high glucose fluid for a while pre diagnosis and that changes the shape of the lens- something to do with osmosis- and that changes the focus. As your levels start to settle down and stabilise your focus will improve over the next few weeks/couple of months. Getting a pair of cheaper reading specs might help but don’t pay for new glasses if you already wear them as your focus should settle back to what it was. Reducing levels more gradually is kinder on the tiny blood vessels in the body.
What insulin have you been started on? Are you using fixed doses at meals? If so then things do become a lot more flexible when you start carb counting and adjusting insulin doses accordingly.
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I hope things are settling down and you’re feeling much better with a restored insulin supply. It is a big shock at first and you have to hit the ground running. Please ask any questions you’ve got there’s years of combined diabetes experience on here.
Eyesight is one of the main things affected around the time of diagnosis. The lens in the eye has been bathed in high glucose fluid for a while pre diagnosis and that changes the shape of the lens- something to do with osmosis- and that changes the focus. As your levels start to settle down and stabilise your focus will improve over the next few weeks/couple of months. Getting a pair of cheaper reading specs might help but don’t pay for new glasses if you already wear them as your focus should settle back to what it was. Reducing levels more gradually is kinder on the tiny blood vessels in the body.
What insulin have you been started on? Are you using fixed doses at meals? If so then things do become a lot more flexible when you start carb counting and adjusting insulin doses accordingly.
SB2015
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Welcome to the forum @Blueboy83
As @Flower has said it is common for people to have disturbed vision at diagnosis, however this will likely settle as you and your team work together to get your glucose levels back in range. They are likely to want to do this slowly so as to avoid any damage.
What insulin’s have you been put on?
There is plenty of help to tap into on here, so make good use of it and ask any questions that you have.
As @Flower has said it is common for people to have disturbed vision at diagnosis, however this will likely settle as you and your team work together to get your glucose levels back in range. They are likely to want to do this slowly so as to avoid any damage.
What insulin’s have you been put on?
There is plenty of help to tap into on here, so make good use of it and ask any questions that you have.
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Welcome to the forum @Blueboy83
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis.
It’s early days yet - hopefully your eyes will begin to settle over the coming weeks. Don’t stress about trying to hurry that along too much, it’s easier on the fine blood vessels to allow your diagnosis BG levels to come down gradually and fairly gently.
If you’d like a reference source to get your teeth into early on, members here often recommend Type 1 Diabetes in Children Adolescents and Young People by Ragnar Hanas (don’t worry about the title, this book is relevant to people of all ages!)
or
Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner - A practical guide to managing diabetes with insulin
Take things gradually, one step at a time. Diabetes is a marathon not a sprint. And you’ll be learning something new every day for the next 3 decades or more, if your experience is anything like mine!
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis.
It’s early days yet - hopefully your eyes will begin to settle over the coming weeks. Don’t stress about trying to hurry that along too much, it’s easier on the fine blood vessels to allow your diagnosis BG levels to come down gradually and fairly gently.
If you’d like a reference source to get your teeth into early on, members here often recommend Type 1 Diabetes in Children Adolescents and Young People by Ragnar Hanas (don’t worry about the title, this book is relevant to people of all ages!)
or
Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner - A practical guide to managing diabetes with insulin
Take things gradually, one step at a time. Diabetes is a marathon not a sprint. And you’ll be learning something new every day for the next 3 decades or more, if your experience is anything like mine!
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