Hi

[Hayl.w]

HI new to this forum looking forward to getting support from people that understand diabetes in stead of people saying and thinking Awe don't be daft just done eat sugar!! X

 

[grovesy]

Welcome.

 

[trophywench]

Hi Hayl - or tell you about their uncle's brother's next door neighbour's husband whose leg dropped off/went blind/had to have a kidney transplant !!

Gets worse, but different, as you age, you know? I'm in my 60s now and all and sundry therefore assume I'm T2 - and when not being doom mongers like the first lot - congratulate me on losing weight, since I obviously have, haven't I, since I'm not morbidly obese .......

Just respond with hysterical laughter at any such comments - and when they look surprised - manage to say -with difficulty, whilst wiping the tears of laughter from your eyes, 'Oooh - if you ONLY realised what a daft thing you'd just said .....!' and shake your head, whilst wandering off away from them!

 

[Stitch147]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

 

[Hayl.w]

Ha I do find that because it's not an illness pple can see they think you are pulling their leg when you have had a hypo and is a just give me a few minutes to pull myself round it sometimes takes up to an hour to feel normal.

I am type 1 started with gestational diabetes ended up in intensive care 30 weeks pregnant at the age of 29 as they didn't diagnose it earlier enough dispite being in and out of hospital for 10 weeks. It then returned a year later so when I was 30 so it's been 5 years now and still can't get my head around it and struggle. Sleep most days but cannot sleep on a night tired all the time no energy blood sugars vary from 7-15 it's hard x

 

[Matt Cycle]

Hi Hayl and welcome to the forum. 🙂

 

[Matt Cycle]

Hi Hayl - or tell you about their uncle's brother's next door neighbour's husband whose leg dropped off/went blind/had to have a kidney transplant !!

Gets worse, but different, as you age, you know? I'm in my 60s now and all and sundry therefore assume I'm T2 - and when not being doom mongers like the first lot - congratulate me on losing weight, since I obviously have, haven't I, since I'm not morbidly obese .......

Just respond with hysterical laughter at any such comments - and when they look surprised - manage to say -with difficulty, whilst wiping the tears of laughter from your eyes, 'Oooh - if you ONLY realised what a daft thing you'd just said .....!' and shake your head, whilst wandering off away from them!

I'm at an age now (I'm 48) where if I say I'm diabetic people assume because of my age I'm T2 but look puzzled because I am and always have been skinny. What the hell do these people think happens to T1's when they get older?

 

[Ralph-YK]

Hi Hayl from a T2

 

[Hayl.w]

Hi everyone n thanks for the welcome..I did try metformin for a few months first but my god I take my hat off to u taking it every day I was in bits with my stomach id take insulin any day over that lol x

 

[Northerner]

Ha I do find that because it's not an illness pple can see they think you are pulling their leg when you have had a hypo and is a just give me a few minutes to pull myself round it sometimes takes up to an hour to feel normal.

I am type 1 started with gestational diabetes ended up in intensive care 30 weeks pregnant at the age of 29 as they didn't diagnose it earlier enough dispite being in and out of hospital for 10 weeks. It then returned a year later so when I was 30 so it's been 5 years now and still can't get my head around it and struggle. Sleep most days but cannot sleep on a night tired all the time no energy blood sugars vary from 7-15 it's hard x

Hi Hayl, welcome to the forum 🙂 What insulin regime are you on? Are you carb counting (have you been on a course?) Let us know if we can help in any way, it can be a complicated business but most things have some sort of solution that others have tried and tested 🙂