Welcome to the forum
@negativityyybegone
Sounds like you’ve had an interesting start to your diabetes career.
Slightly surprising that you haven’t had to start in insulin yet - that’s quite an unusual start.
How did your diagnosis come about? Was it through a routine check, or were you having some of the common symptoms like unquenchable thirst, increased urination, weight loss and tiredness?
It may be that you have LADA, a slower-onset form of T1, that sometimes looks quite like T2 to begin with, and where the beta cells are attacked by the immune system at a slower rate - so if your diagnosis was caught early, you may still have a reasonable amount of beta cell mass remaining?
Did you have an HbA1c at diagnosis? And what sorts of BG levels are you seeing day-to-day?
Try not to worry about the needles. As
@SB2015 says they are tiny and very fine, with generally little or no sensation or discomfort during the delivery of doses. I don’t think many people actually *like* injections before they are diagnosed, but folks soon adapt, and it just becomes part of life.
Depending on how twitchy needles make you feel there are products which conceal the needle itself (autoshield?) which may help.
But rest assured, you are certainly not the only person to have been diagnosed with T1 who has a needle phobia. Help is available, and many people before you have faced this challenge and made it through
🙂