Looking for fellow young type 2 diabetics!

[Autumn29]

Hi everyone 🙂

I was diagnosed with type 2 at 30 years old and I’m looking to connect/get support and support others around this age group. I do struggle a lot with obsessing over life spans, chronic conditions, complications etc after doing some research into how it can be worse the earlier you get diagnosed. Whether this is accurate on not I have no clue.

I think the emotional and physical impact of diabetes obviously affects everyone of all ages so I don’t want to exclude anyone from this post!!

I would also like to connect with people who struggle with mental health conditions and eating disorders alongside the diabetes. I hope this post is ok so admin/moderators please remove or feel free to message me if it’s not ok 🙂

 

[gail2]

Hi @Autumn29 wellcome to the forum i id with that a lot. but im not that age group
please feel free to post as much or as little as you like. rember no question to small to large or to silly
gail

 

[Lucyr]

I’m not sure 30 is particularly young for t2 now? I was diagnosed t2 aged 20 but rediagnosed to t1 at 36 (t2 doesn’t change into t1, I was just never really t2 in the first place)

 

[helli]

I do struggle a lot with obsessing over life spans, chronic conditions, complications etc after doing some research into how it can be worse the earlier you get diagnosed. Whether this is accurate on not I have no clue.

I know how you feel but this is not saying you will experience complications or you will live a shorter life. It is saying you are at risk if your diabetes is not managed. It motivates me to manage my diabetes.
The other thing to remember is that this risks are based on historical data. Data that doesn't take into consideration recent techniques, drugs and technology for managing diabetes. So the risks now are lower than history.

 

[trophywench]

I was 22 when diagnosed, but with T1 all along. I'm now very nearly 75. Which complications am I supposed to have? I well recall a lady doing my annual retinopathy check assuring me it was 'perfectly usual and expected' to have retinopathy after having diabetes for 10 years and being gobsmacked when I said I'd had diabetes for (then) over 30 years and I hadn't so far - so clearly that wasn't always true. Now 50+ years and I still haven't, sometimes get told I have background retinopathy in my left eye, but there is a teeny little deviation in one vein that's been there since at least the mid 1980s cos I've worn glasses since I was in my late teens and it's never changed since my optician then happened to notice it when peering into my eyeballs during a sight test. D consultant asked 'Who's told you that?' so I replied' Mr J at Specsavers' - so D doc peered in eyes and remarked 'Mr J must have better eyesight than me then, cos I can't see it!'

I went and told Mr J - and we agreed we were both rather pleased his eyesight was good, really!!

 

[trophywench]

Oh and major PS to you - over the last 50+ years I have found that quite often, that I've gained no end of helpful advice along the way from folk who are neither anywhere near my age nor even have the same type of diabetes. Sometimes not even in the UK. Sometimes 'not being involved' in whatever my situation has happened to be at the time, enables others to see things a lot more logically than me.

 

[medidia]

Hi, I'm not in your age group, but I know the challenges of managing a diabetes, a condition linked to diet, while dealing with disordered eating. My only comment is to be very careful with restricting food eg limiting carbs, if it could trigger eating issues, it may require specialist input (e.g. ED dietitian). xx

 

[Autumn29]

I’m not sure 30 is particularly young for t2 now? I was diagnosed t2 aged 20 but rediagnosed to t1 at 36 (t2 doesn’t change into t1, I was just never really t2 in the first place)

Sorry I didn’t mean to offend!

 

[Autumn29]

Hi, I'm not in your age group, but I know the challenges of managing a diabetes, a condition linked to diet, while dealing with disordered eating. My only comment is to be very careful with restricting food eg limiting carbs, if it could trigger eating issues, it may require specialist input (e.g. ED dietitian). xx

Yes that’s what I’m worried about. My eating is very all or nothing and I’m scared I will slip back into the restrictiveness again

 

[Autumn29]

Oh and major PS to you - over the last 50+ years I have found that quite often, that I've gained no end of helpful advice along the way from folk who are neither anywhere near my age nor even have the same type of diabetes. Sometimes not even in the UK. Sometimes 'not being involved' in whatever my situation has happened to be at the time, enables others to see things a lot more logically than me.

Sorry I didn’t mean to say that it was the only thing; just that I wanted to connect with people my age. I apologise

 

[Anna DUK]

Hi everyone 🙂

I was diagnosed with type 2 at 30 years old and I’m looking to connect/get support and support others around this age group. I do struggle a lot with obsessing over life spans, chronic conditions, complications etc after doing some research into how it can be worse the earlier you get diagnosed. Whether this is accurate on not I have no clue.

I think the emotional and physical impact of diabetes obviously affects everyone of all ages so I don’t want to exclude anyone from this post!!

I would also like to connect with people who struggle with mental health conditions and eating disorders alongside the diabetes. I hope this post is ok so admin/moderators please remove or feel free to message me if it’s not ok 🙂

Hi @Autumn29, it's very okay to post such a message. This is exactly what the forum is here for: so you can connect with other people living with diabetes, and other similar conditions and struggles. How long ago were you diagnosed?