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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Hii, I'm Dilly and I'm new to the forums. I came on here because my mum suggested it and said I could meet some people.
I have no idea how to use this website but I'll probably get the hang of it at some point I suppose
I literally just turned 15 and I was diagnosed with Type 1 in February 2018 so 3 years ago. I was diagnosed really early. My urine was a really funky colour and I brought it up with my mum who is a nurse. She dipsticked it and it came back with 3 pluses of glucose.
Phoned local GP and the next day came in to be checked, my blood sugars were 8.3 on a fasting glucose. The only thing I can really rememebr after that is being in the children's ward in this big long corridor with animals painted on the walls. My mum was talking to a doctor I think in a room while I sat outside. It felt like they were in there for hours. After that I rmemeber sitting in a different hall with grey walls and a tan floor with vending machines and uncomfortable benches. A nurse came out and spoke to my mum but I was only really half listening. I didn't know what diabetes meant at the time and it was really late as we were there all day. My mum looked sad and she told me an extremely brief explanation and I just started crying.
I didnt start insulin until halloween the same year. Even then, I didn't have to give insulin in school, only at home. Before I started insulin I would go on walks to get my sugars down. I don't think my primary school really knew how to deal with it but that's okay because neither did we really. There were 3 p7 classes in my school and two of the teachers were diabetic and I was stuck with the one who wasn't diabetic?? That was a bit weird to me even at the time.
I remmeber my p7 teacher would make me run laps around the playground if my blood sugars were high because I told him exercise brings them down. Was rlly embarrassing ngl. I also had a freestyle libre in p7 and everyone called me a cyborg which which was kind of funny.
Starting high school was scary because it was the first time I'd acctually had to give injections when I wasn't at home. Every lunchtime I went to the canteen to see what was being served and then went into the nurses office to bolus.
Eventually got confident enough to give insulin in the canteen instead and started carrying around a bag with a -Type 1 diabetes- keychain on it. At some point this girl is the queue asked if I was diabetic because she saw the tag. she only knew about it because she followed diabetic twins on tiktok. That's how i met my best friend.
At the start of my third year in December I got a Medtronic 640G and were taught how to use it by the diabetic nurses over zoom because of covid. have been on it ever since.
Its still difficult sometimes and it sucks that nobody really understands. The "are you diabetic" girl is probably the only one apart from my mum who really gets it because she did a bunch of research. Sometimes I wish I had a diabetic friend who I could chat to about it all.
It is hard but you just have to carry on and keep being resilient.
Thankyou for reading 🙂)
I have no idea how to use this website but I'll probably get the hang of it at some point I suppose
I literally just turned 15 and I was diagnosed with Type 1 in February 2018 so 3 years ago. I was diagnosed really early. My urine was a really funky colour and I brought it up with my mum who is a nurse. She dipsticked it and it came back with 3 pluses of glucose.
Phoned local GP and the next day came in to be checked, my blood sugars were 8.3 on a fasting glucose. The only thing I can really rememebr after that is being in the children's ward in this big long corridor with animals painted on the walls. My mum was talking to a doctor I think in a room while I sat outside. It felt like they were in there for hours. After that I rmemeber sitting in a different hall with grey walls and a tan floor with vending machines and uncomfortable benches. A nurse came out and spoke to my mum but I was only really half listening. I didn't know what diabetes meant at the time and it was really late as we were there all day. My mum looked sad and she told me an extremely brief explanation and I just started crying.
I didnt start insulin until halloween the same year. Even then, I didn't have to give insulin in school, only at home. Before I started insulin I would go on walks to get my sugars down. I don't think my primary school really knew how to deal with it but that's okay because neither did we really. There were 3 p7 classes in my school and two of the teachers were diabetic and I was stuck with the one who wasn't diabetic?? That was a bit weird to me even at the time.
I remmeber my p7 teacher would make me run laps around the playground if my blood sugars were high because I told him exercise brings them down. Was rlly embarrassing ngl. I also had a freestyle libre in p7 and everyone called me a cyborg which which was kind of funny.
Starting high school was scary because it was the first time I'd acctually had to give injections when I wasn't at home. Every lunchtime I went to the canteen to see what was being served and then went into the nurses office to bolus.
Eventually got confident enough to give insulin in the canteen instead and started carrying around a bag with a -Type 1 diabetes- keychain on it. At some point this girl is the queue asked if I was diabetic because she saw the tag. she only knew about it because she followed diabetic twins on tiktok. That's how i met my best friend.
At the start of my third year in December I got a Medtronic 640G and were taught how to use it by the diabetic nurses over zoom because of covid. have been on it ever since.
Its still difficult sometimes and it sucks that nobody really understands. The "are you diabetic" girl is probably the only one apart from my mum who really gets it because she did a bunch of research. Sometimes I wish I had a diabetic friend who I could chat to about it all.
It is hard but you just have to carry on and keep being resilient.
Thankyou for reading 🙂)
