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Miss out a day of incilin
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Sally71
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Why are you questioning whether you are diabetic? If you take insulin when you aren't diabetic then it will make you very ill indeed and might even kill you. So if you have been prescribed insulin and are taking it every day then you can't possibly not be diabetic. If you miss a day of insulin your blood sugars will go very high indeed and make you extremely ill.
Sally71
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How long have you been diagnosed? It is a lot to get your head round in the beginning and not easy, over time you will get more used to it though. And we all get days when we're fed up with it and don't want to deal with it any more, unfortunately having a day off from it isn't an option 
If you're struggling with anything in particular and need help, please ask 🙂
If you're struggling with anything in particular and need help, please ask 🙂
rebrascora
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Being in denial is a common reaction. Diabetes is a bit strange in that a vital organ like the pancreas can be failing and you don't really feel that bad. Your body slowly gets used to increasingly high BG levels until eventually you reach a tipping point and it can't cope anymore and you end up becoming symptomatic and sometimes very seriously ill, or you are picked up through a routine blood test.
It is a life threatening condition but you often don't feel unwell, even with high BG levels. The problem is that those high levels will cause damage long term and if they go too high, you will become extremely, even fatally unwell very quickly, just like if you take too much insulin. The balance of the two (blood glucose and insulin) is the important thing and putting effort into learning to manage that balance is important to keep you out of hospital and healthy. Burying your head in the sand is not really an option.
You can take less insulin if you reduce your carbohydrate intake to almost nothing.... ie no sweet stuff but also no bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, breakfast cereals, fruit, pulses like beans etc, but if you continue to eat these things then your BG will rise to dangerous levels and you could quickly land yourself in hospital. Even without eating these foods your body will still manage to produce a little from protein and fats. Whilst your pancreas is still producing some insulin in this early stage of your diagnosis, you might manage to survive for several days or weeks or maybe even months on a very low carb diet without insulin but you are risking long term damage to your blood vessels and nerves by doing so and the ultimate implications of this are things like erectile dysfunction, blindness and amputations of feet due to infections which won't heal. Those are really not things you want to risk, especially at your young age of 25. Using the insulin is therefore very important to enable you to have a good quality of life.... it just takes a bit of getting used to.... but eventually it will become second nature just like driving a car is complicated when you first start but soon you learn to do things automatically.
It is a life threatening condition but you often don't feel unwell, even with high BG levels. The problem is that those high levels will cause damage long term and if they go too high, you will become extremely, even fatally unwell very quickly, just like if you take too much insulin. The balance of the two (blood glucose and insulin) is the important thing and putting effort into learning to manage that balance is important to keep you out of hospital and healthy. Burying your head in the sand is not really an option.
You can take less insulin if you reduce your carbohydrate intake to almost nothing.... ie no sweet stuff but also no bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, breakfast cereals, fruit, pulses like beans etc, but if you continue to eat these things then your BG will rise to dangerous levels and you could quickly land yourself in hospital. Even without eating these foods your body will still manage to produce a little from protein and fats. Whilst your pancreas is still producing some insulin in this early stage of your diagnosis, you might manage to survive for several days or weeks or maybe even months on a very low carb diet without insulin but you are risking long term damage to your blood vessels and nerves by doing so and the ultimate implications of this are things like erectile dysfunction, blindness and amputations of feet due to infections which won't heal. Those are really not things you want to risk, especially at your young age of 25. Using the insulin is therefore very important to enable you to have a good quality of life.... it just takes a bit of getting used to.... but eventually it will become second nature just like driving a car is complicated when you first start but soon you learn to do things automatically.
Ljc
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When first diagnosed with T1 often due to the life threatening condition of DKA you soon go on a very steep learning curve with not time to adjust . Whatever type we have , the daily routine of testing, injecting, working out our insulin doses according not only to what we eat but our activity , etc etc etc gets to us all at times,
so we do understand @ScrewRM . Come here and have a rant when ever you need to, we all do at times, but please please please don’t bury you head in the sand, try hard to work through your denial, your diabetes team should be able to help you, so please do let them know how you are feeling.
I doubt if anyone wants to have diabetes, I’d rather I didn’t , I sometimes want to throw my toys out of my pram.
Please take care and look after yourself.
so we do understand @ScrewRM . Come here and have a rant when ever you need to, we all do at times, but please please please don’t bury you head in the sand, try hard to work through your denial, your diabetes team should be able to help you, so please do let them know how you are feeling.
I doubt if anyone wants to have diabetes, I’d rather I didn’t , I sometimes want to throw my toys out of my pram.
Please take care and look after yourself.
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Thanks mean a lot!
Can anyone answer this : I forgot to take my novorapid I’m hoping that this isn’t uncommon for newly diagnosed to forget? I’ve eaten my meal and blood levels have gone feel 5.1 to 18.5, I did have a small piece of chocolate. I’m going to see the DN tomorrow but any other experiences similar? TIA
Can anyone answer this : I forgot to take my novorapid I’m hoping that this isn’t uncommon for newly diagnosed to forget? I’ve eaten my meal and blood levels have gone feel 5.1 to 18.5, I did have a small piece of chocolate. I’m going to see the DN tomorrow but any other experiences similar? TIA
rebrascora
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Yes we all make mistakes or forget or inject the wrong pen from time to time. It certainly shows that if you really were in doubt about your diabetes diagnosis, you have the proof right there.
You mention a small piece of chocolate as well as your meal as if suggesting that the chocolate may be to blame for the huge rise and I am just wondering if you understand that it is carbohydrates and not just sugar which spikes your blood glucose readings? Basically things like bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, noodles breakfast cereals including porridge, as well as the obvious sweet stuff like cakes biscuits sweets and chocolate but also fruit and fruit juice will significantly increase your BG reading and in fact protein and fat can also be broken down to create some glucose but it takes much longer and the process is much less efficient than carbohydrates. So the chocolate was only a small part of what caused your huge rise in BG. Hopefully you will get a course which will teach you how to carb count so that you can work out the correct amount of insulin to use for each meal.
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