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Newly diagnosed and STARVING
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AJLang
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Welcome to the forum. Please one day at a time. Although it doesn't feel like it at the moment it will soon the diabetes will become second nature. It is difficult having other illnesses as well as the diabetes.....I've just recently had to deal with problems with my other illnesses. BUT it does get better and life will seem much happier and easier soon.....and I can say this from experience as I've had diabetes for over 40 years, since I was two, and have lived nearly all of my dreams. This forum really helps a lot. Wishing you both all the best x
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I'm a bit late chipping in here but just wanted to say hi and agree with everyone else that it does get easier as time goes by. My son (now 14) was utterly starving for the first few weeks after diagnosis so I think it's very common. I bought him bags of nuts, biltong, ham, fridge raiders etc to help stave off the pangs between meals. How about cheese or a boiled egg if she likes them?
William is just a normal 3 meals a day person now. He is also very slim and he has lymphoedema in his legs so he can't inject there. Right now he can only do the top of one hip (round the back) where the lymphoedema is less obvious and his tummy. We're hoping to move on to arms when he puts on a bit of flesh! He pinches up as others have suggested on here, and uses 4mm needles which are pretty small. Bye for now and good luck.
William is just a normal 3 meals a day person now. He is also very slim and he has lymphoedema in his legs so he can't inject there. Right now he can only do the top of one hip (round the back) where the lymphoedema is less obvious and his tummy. We're hoping to move on to arms when he puts on a bit of flesh! He pinches up as others have suggested on here, and uses 4mm needles which are pretty small. Bye for now and good luck.
My 6 yr old daughter was diagnosed 12 weeks ago and to begin with all I got was "I'm hungry". She would eat two weetabix with semi skimmed milk and announce that she was hungry when taking her empty bowl back into the kitchen!
In those first few weeks, my handbag was a walking picnic:- ham, cheesestrings, cucumber, carrot sticks (I left the sugar free jelly in the fridge). Abigail will now say "Can I have a zero mummy? as she knows that these won't count. She even told her dance teacher that she could have her Starburst sweetie after class as she didn't know what the carboyhydrate was!
I have decided that with diabetes its not so much a learning curve, but straight off the cliff face.
But three months in, I'm climbing back up!!!
In those first few weeks, my handbag was a walking picnic:- ham, cheesestrings, cucumber, carrot sticks (I left the sugar free jelly in the fridge). Abigail will now say "Can I have a zero mummy? as she knows that these won't count. She even told her dance teacher that she could have her Starburst sweetie after class as she didn't know what the carboyhydrate was!
I have decided that with diabetes its not so much a learning curve, but straight off the cliff face.
But three months in, I'm climbing back up!!!
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