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Welcome. Good luck with your exams.
 
Hi Emma
Welcome. It is a lot to take in at the start, but it does get easier.
If you have any questions just ask.

Good luck in the exams. If you hypo during the exam, ask for a rest break and take time before you go back in. We have to wait 45 min before driving again.
 
Hi Emma, and welcome 🙂
If you have any questions about diabetes, please ask - someone here is sure to be able to help.

What subjects are your exams in?
 
Welcome to the forum, Emma, and best wishes for your exams. Have you told your college, so they can inform exams board, and make provisions such as a small room for you, so you can test your blood sugar during exam without disturbing other candidates?
 
Hi - it's my 45th anniversary of being diagnosed in August and I haven't stopped learning yet - so it really is very early days for you, and don't expect to get really comfortable and confident with treating it in the blink of an eye. There's too much to learn quickly whether you're as capable as Stephen Hawking - or have a (slightly LOL) more average brain like most of us!
 
SB2015 said:
Hi Emma
Welcome. It is a lot to take in at the start, but it does get easier.
If you have any questions just ask.

Good luck in the exams. If you hypo during the exam, ask for a rest break and take time before you go back in. We have to wait 45 min before driving again.
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Thank you ^.^ for my exams I've had I've made sure my sugar levels aren't lower than 4 so I won't have a hypo
 
Copepod said:
Welcome to the forum, Emma, and best wishes for your exams. Have you told your college, so they can inform exams board, and make provisions such as a small room for you, so you can test your blood sugar during exam without disturbing other candidates?
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Thank you ^.^ My college do know about my diabetes and the examiner in the room always knows just in case something happens
 
trophywench said:
Hi - it's my 45th anniversary of being diagnosed in August and I haven't stopped learning yet - so it really is very early days for you, and don't expect to get really comfortable and confident with treating it in the blink of an eye. There's too much to learn quickly whether you're as capable as Stephen Hawking - or have a (slightly LOL) more average brain like most of us!
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Hi, I'm trying to learn there's just a lot of information that is scary that's all
 
emziexjayne said:
Hi ^.^ I'm taking A Levels in Drama and Theatre Studies, Media Studies and Creative Writing
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Ooh, that's my field! 🙂 I have a Masters degree in Text and Performance Studies (long time ago now!). Are you hoping to go on to Uni or to Drama school?
 
Well take good note of the scary stuff - and use that knowledge to spur you on to learn how to AVOID the stuff that scares you! Like being knocked over by a bus or stepping in a puddle can always happen, but probably won't if you keep your eye out when crossing roads and wear suitable footwear in the rain.

Yes indeed - crap can happen - but you shouldn't assume it will happen to YOU. On the other hand, don't ever think that totally ignoring diabetes will stop the crap occurring because those that do stick their heads in the sand are shedloads more likely to have complications. Make diabetes your somewhat demanding/challenging 'mate' - the sort of mate who needs to be kept happy and as long as you do, then they'll also try and keep YOU happy. Good behaviour on YOUR part goes quite some way to making this mate behave better. It's not exactly bribery - but a bit like that.

There's a few of us on here that have had T1 for a very long time and haven't so far got any challenging side effects (a couple of us have had cataracts and frozen shoulders, but nothing like serious - no legs have dropped off nor have we gone blind or needed transplant surgery) and none of us has ever claimed to be a saint with utterly brilliant BGs throughout!
 
TheClockworkDodo said:
Ooh, that's my field! 🙂 I have a Masters degree in Text and Performance Studies (long time ago now!). Are you hoping to go on to Uni or to Drama school?
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Maybe someday, this year I'm just taking a gap year to get used to diabetes and try get my physical and mental health better
 
trophywench said:
Well take good note of the scary stuff - and use that knowledge to spur you on to learn how to AVOID the stuff that scares you! Like being knocked over by a bus or stepping in a puddle can always happen, but probably won't if you keep your eye out when crossing roads and wear suitable footwear in the rain.

Yes indeed - crap can happen - but you shouldn't assume it will happen to YOU. On the other hand, don't ever think that totally ignoring diabetes will stop the crap occurring because those that do stick their heads in the sand are shedloads more likely to have complications. Make diabetes your somewhat demanding/challenging 'mate' - the sort of mate who needs to be kept happy and as long as you do, then they'll also try and keep YOU happy. Good behaviour on YOUR part goes quite some way to making this mate behave better. It's not exactly bribery - but a bit like that.

There's a few of us on here that have had T1 for a very long time and haven't so far got any challenging side effects (a couple of us have had cataracts and frozen shoulders, but nothing like serious - no legs have dropped off nor have we gone blind or needed transplant surgery) and none of us has ever claimed to be a saint with utterly brilliant BGs throughout!
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Some things have scared me and have made my anxiety to worse but I'm trying to think about diabetes in a positive way
 
emziexjayne said:
Maybe someday, this year I'm just taking a gap year to get used to diabetes and try get my physical and mental health better
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Make sure you do the things that matter to you, and have fun. Don't just sit at home and do only routine things!
 
Welcome aboard. Good luck with the exams. Make sure you enjoy life, at least as much as you did before you were diagnosed.🙂
 
emziexjayne said:
Maybe someday, this year I'm just taking a gap year to get used to diabetes and try get my physical and mental health better
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A gap year is always a good idea - hope you enjoy it and manage to travel to some interesting places and have fun, as well as getting your head round the diabetes 🙂
 
It does actually get a lot less scary, in time. But - you do have to give it - and yourself !! - time.
 
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