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rebrascora
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Hello and welcome from another late starter!
I was 56 at diagnosis just over 2 years ago. All I can say is, it does get easier! Those first few weeks and months are an emotional rollercoaster as well as information overload. The forum here will help you make sense of it all at your own pace and ask questions about the stuff that probably passed over your head when the nurse first mentioned them. I know the day I started on insulin is a bit of a blank other than leaving the surgery and sitting in my car in the car park blubbing down the phone to my sister!.... I was initially diagnosed as Type 2 so I had 6 weeks of getting my head around low carb eating and increasing doses of oral meds before that day and I had really flogged my guts out with the diet to try to reverse it, so was gutted that I needed insulin. Not looked back since then and this forum has been a sanity saver if not life saver in teaching me how to manage things and learning that I need to be the expert in treating my own diabetes and encouraging me to experiment to find what works best for me. Also helpful to learn about new technology and a safe place to rant about the frustration of it all when things don't go to plan, as happens from time to time.
Would you like to tell us a bit more about how you came to be diagnosed and which insulins they have given you and if ypu have Freestyle Libre or are you finger pricking to check BG levels? What are you finding most difficult at the moment.... other than pretty much everything or are you one of those lucky ones who take to it like a duck to water and their BG levels have read all the books and know exactly where they should be and follow all the rules.... Jammy if you are!!
Anyway, make yourself at home here and feel free to ask anything you are struggling to understand.
You could also join us each morning on the "Group 7-day waking average" Thread where we post our morning waking/fasting reading (Averages mostly got abandoned a good while back) and have a bit chat about our plans for the day, grumps or celebrations over out BG levels and generally a bit of banter. It's a bit like a virtual coffee morning and you will soon get to know and hopefully become one of the regulars. This is the thread....
Don't try to read it all from the beginning just jump right in with your waking reading tomorrow and you will soon get the hang of it and get to know us. Hope to see you there
I was 56 at diagnosis just over 2 years ago. All I can say is, it does get easier! Those first few weeks and months are an emotional rollercoaster as well as information overload. The forum here will help you make sense of it all at your own pace and ask questions about the stuff that probably passed over your head when the nurse first mentioned them. I know the day I started on insulin is a bit of a blank other than leaving the surgery and sitting in my car in the car park blubbing down the phone to my sister!.... I was initially diagnosed as Type 2 so I had 6 weeks of getting my head around low carb eating and increasing doses of oral meds before that day and I had really flogged my guts out with the diet to try to reverse it, so was gutted that I needed insulin. Not looked back since then and this forum has been a sanity saver if not life saver in teaching me how to manage things and learning that I need to be the expert in treating my own diabetes and encouraging me to experiment to find what works best for me. Also helpful to learn about new technology and a safe place to rant about the frustration of it all when things don't go to plan, as happens from time to time.
Would you like to tell us a bit more about how you came to be diagnosed and which insulins they have given you and if ypu have Freestyle Libre or are you finger pricking to check BG levels? What are you finding most difficult at the moment.... other than pretty much everything or are you one of those lucky ones who take to it like a duck to water and their BG levels have read all the books and know exactly where they should be and follow all the rules.... Jammy if you are!!
Anyway, make yourself at home here and feel free to ask anything you are struggling to understand.
You could also join us each morning on the "Group 7-day waking average" Thread where we post our morning waking/fasting reading (Averages mostly got abandoned a good while back) and have a bit chat about our plans for the day, grumps or celebrations over out BG levels and generally a bit of banter. It's a bit like a virtual coffee morning and you will soon get to know and hopefully become one of the regulars. This is the thread....
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/group-7-day-waking-average.20148/page-3743#post-1077659
Don't try to read it all from the beginning just jump right in with your waking reading tomorrow and you will soon get the hang of it and get to know us. Hope to see you there
SB2015
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Welcome to the forum @Lynsk from another late starter (53).
As @rebrascora has summed up it does get easier, and there is loads of experience on here to tap into, as well as updates on technology that may be available.
A book that I found useful early on was Type1Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults by Ragnar Hanas. Ignore the age reference, just miss out the chapter on going to school!! It is well explained in bite size chunks.
If you are happy to do so tell us a bit about how you manage your T1. Also fire away with absolutely any questions you have.
As @rebrascora has summed up it does get easier, and there is loads of experience on here to tap into, as well as updates on technology that may be available.
A book that I found useful early on was Type1Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults by Ragnar Hanas. Ignore the age reference, just miss out the chapter on going to school!! It is well explained in bite size chunks.
If you are happy to do so tell us a bit about how you manage your T1. Also fire away with absolutely any questions you have.
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Welcome to the forum @Lynsk
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis - you are in good company though - we have lots of members who were diagnosed in later life!
While it can have a reputation as a condition that develops in childhood, 50% of cases are diagnosed in people over 18, and there’s no apparent upper limit!
Hope you find consulting the ‘hive mind’ of the forum helpful. We have centuries of lived experience of all the fun and frustrations of life with T1 here 🙂
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis - you are in good company though - we have lots of members who were diagnosed in later life!
While it can have a reputation as a condition that develops in childhood, 50% of cases are diagnosed in people over 18, and there’s no apparent upper limit!
Hope you find consulting the ‘hive mind’ of the forum helpful. We have centuries of lived experience of all the fun and frustrations of life with T1 here 🙂
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