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Hi, my name is Jane and two weeks ago I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. I do not know another adult who has type 1, so I was relieved to come across this forum. As a newbie, I would like to share the following with you.
In July this year I decided I wanted lose a few pounds that I had put on following a sporting injury. I started to eat healthily, lay off the little alcohol I drank and increase my water intake, which was no problem as water is my favourite drink! Sad I know!
I could not believe my luck, before I knew it I had lost a stone, then the next stone came off, then I came back from an outward bound weekend and realised that I had lost a further 10 pounds in weight. I remember looking at my face in the mirror following a remark from my partner who was worried about me, and thought you look ill but physically I felt well. I knew something was wrong.
After giving the doctor my urine sample and her giving me the diagnoses my reaction was to burst in to tears and tell her what an inconvenience it was! My life is far to busy to have diabetes! and if I new this diagnosis was coming I would of had a lovely big piece of cake and had a goodnight out before I went the docs!
I spent two nights in hospital as my blood sugar decided to play a game of how high can we go!
I am currently injecting four times a day. I have tried to stay positive and friends and family have been extemely supportive and my children have been fab, but I know I am going to have to accept help and support from people along the way. I feel like I am inside a bubble and watching the world go by! I honestly do not think I have even begun to accept my diagnosis and may be I am trying to hard to. This is were you all come in, any advice is and will be appreciated.
I want to start running again (but been advised not to until my blood sugar is behaving) as I have been given a place in the London marathon next April. I know that I will be taking my new friend diabetes with me and😛 I am sure this friendship will have it's testing times!
I am going back to work at the end of the week so may be the part of acceptance may begin!
Thanks for reading
Jane😛
 
Hi Jane and a warm welcome to the forum sorry we have to "meet" this way, theres many type 1s on here who can help far better then me , but one thing i can say is you will have the best possible support from us on here that they is, its hard being diagnosed we dont look for it nor deserve it sometimes life is just not fair, some people accept it get on with it others it can take a little while longer, in my opinion either way is neither right or wrong its a very persoanl condition, it is good to hear you have a great support from F&F thats always nice to have, like yourself i dont know any other diabetic i have an uncle but he is miles away so for that reason thats why this place is so unique, we all have seperate individual lifes but we are brought together because of the diabetes.Welcome onboard

p.s we have some keen runners on here and a section on exercise etc etc so make use of that .
 
Hi Jane, welcome to the forum 🙂 Believe me, I know just how you feel! I have been running marathons for over 25 years, and I was due to run in the 2008 Stockholm Marathon...except the week before I got sick. I ended up in hospital for 8 days, missed the race (although I was always convinced I would recover in time!) and diagnosed Type 1. :(

The good news is that it doesn't mean an end to your running. It sounds as though, even though you had had severe weight loss etc. before diagnosis, you didn't get DKA which can take longer to get over, so London is still a possibility! I ran the Great South Run 5 months after diagnosis despite having very severe problems at diagnosis, including heart problems.

I'd recommend you get a copy of Diabetic Athlete's Handbook - it was the first book I bought after diagnosis as I was so anxious to get back to my running and it was a real help. There are a few more things to consider, but it is do-able! 🙂

Start back slowly when the doctors OK it, and learn how your body reacts to the insulin and food - there will be less sponteneity, but it is an inconvenience not a restriction.

Please ask any questions you may have, and we'll do our best to help! 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum Jane...........you have come to the right place for help and support. 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum Jane. There are a lot of friendly helpful people on here.:D
 
Hello from me too (another of the Type 2 brigade!).

Be sure to have a good rummage around the whole forum. There's lots of good advice available here.

Andy 🙂
 
Warm welcome from me Jane, were all sailing the same boat here, so jump on baord whenever you want....:D
 
Hi Jane

Another welcome, and again, sorry you have to be here :(

Give yourself some time to come to terms with it, diagnosis affects everyone differently. For some it's a complete shock, others are glad to at least have a name to put to the thing that's been making them feel grim for a while. Feel free to rant and wail here. You are among people who 'get it'.

I love what you said about wishing you'd known what was coming so that you could have had a big slice of cake 🙂 I so understand that feeling!

The good news is that almost anything is still possible and any food is still permissable. As Northener says, you can still keep on running (www.runsweet.com has some good stuff for diabetic athletes too) Steve Redgrave managed to do pretty well for himself as a T1 after all!

So don't give up on your slices of chocolate cake just yet. It's just that you may need to have them slightly fewer and further between.

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hi Jane. Ito am new to this site and Ihave found it helpfull,I have been Type 1 for 35 years. So good look with you runnig and you will find help on hear I have.🙂
 
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