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Hi Helen,

It's a personal choice of course, and I can appreciate you wanting to keep it from your Mum, but if I'd been in your place and heard work colleagues being spiteful, I would have been unable to keep silent! How dare they! 😡 People wouldn't make jokes about someone diagnosed with cancer or heart trouble, yet for some reason they see diabetes as fair game (probably because of the negative coverage in the media). How I would love to put them straight!!!

Anyway, welcome to the forum 🙄
 
Hi Redkite,

I don't understand the mentality behind it - I certainly don't find it funny and not because I'm now diabetic ! It actually put this gentleman in hospital and he has really had to re-evaulate his life....he can do with all the support he can get - and yet some colleagues can't help themselves and do silly things, to taunt him, about his situtation. As you say, if it were another medical condition, would they think it so humerous.... ?

I don't approve, I don't think it's funny - but other than making that known, which I have, I won't go any further and disclose my own status.

It is hard...I wish I could share....but c'est la vie. Hence, why joining this forum has been very enlightening !

Maybe my work colleague is on here somewhere....taking advice...I hope so 🙂

Thanks for the welcome !
Helen
 
Hi Rosie,

I know where your coming from , it is difficult when you are working full time as I do and to be honest im still learing an awful lot and it takes time.

I must admit my doctor or nurse never ever explained about carbs they just told me to eat a healthy diet. I also keep asking for equipment to test myself but am told everytime by the doctor I do not need to do this.
 
Hello Rosie and Helen and welcome to this forum. As others have said the people on here are marvellous and always supportive and helpful. I will always be grateful to them. It is a year since my diagnosis. I opted to try to control it by diet and exercise and am getting there. Had very little help from either the GP or the DN who think everyone should just take the medication and that complications are inevitable. I was working full time but have been fortunate enough to be able to cut my hours. Less money though. D is not good and I am quite horrified that people can be so horrible to someone who has it. I have insisted on testing and at first kept a careful food diary and so found out what I can and cannot eat. I am still testing now as I know that I need to keep an eye on what is happening. It is tedious but worth it I think. I also try to be positive about what I can eat and to take control. At the end of the day the medics will not be the ones with the complications so it is down to me. I do hope that things will improve for you Rosie as it is hard in your job. A few nuts or a Babybel cheese is a good snack as it can be done quite discretely. Take care and I think that you are both doing really well so give yourselves a pat on the back. 🙂
 
I can't why people seem embarassed about having diabetes and not telling anyone.

Surely the best thing to do is tell work colleagues and friends and family so that if you fall ill they know it could be diabetic related and get the right help.

Nothing like having high blood sugar and becoming unwell and someone giving you a sweet, sugary drink to get you back with it, that's the last thing you need. What about when you have a hypo and it looks like you are drunk!

One the work side of things are the employers that bad and ruthless that they can't let you have a few minutes to check your blood sugar and eat or inject as required. Surely a healthy person is better than a sick person so they should be doing all they can to help. Everyone is busy but how long does it take to test your blood (my meter gives me readings in 5 secs) and quickly inject if needed or eat something.

The main thing that annoys me is when people call it a diesese, I prefer a condition that is being treated.

I'm not the best controlled diabetic in the world (i have my 6 month check next week to find out how I'm doing) and I work in London so if you need to have a chat with someone who also has diabetes I would be more than willing to. Sometime it is good to talk with people who are living with the condition rather than people who read about it in a medical text book.
 
Surely the best thing to do is tell work colleagues and friends and family so that if you fall ill they know it could be diabetic related and get the right help.
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That is also a reason why some people aren't so keen to promote the fact they have diabetes. I would rather not have people around me feel under some sort of obligation to care for me or that I am apparently on the verge of collapsing and being incapable of looking after myself.

Each to their own, of course, but I'm very much of the opinion that diabetes is and should be something you deal with yourself and it is your job to completely minimise the effect this has on both you and other people.

I also don't want people thinking they can blame every little issue I might have on my diabetes. I don't want people assuming if I'm tired at work or hungry that it's because I have diabetes. I don't want people thinking every time I need the toilet, it's because I have diabetes. I don't want people constantly asking me if I can eat a certain food or if injections hurt or telling me about their diabetic nan or whatever. I want to be me, a normal person getting on with their life just the same as everyone else. It's nothing to do with being 'embarrassed', it's that life is too short for me to be a one man resource having to educate everyone around me about diabetes.

What annoys me isn't the semantics over disease and condition. What annoys me is being seen as 'a diabetic'. I'm not a diabetic. I'm me. I also just happen to have diabetes.
 
am64

hi am64, l commuet to charing cross every day,it is very strss full ,lm going to give it a go and cut down on rice & pasta, but l do like my chines once a week lol:D
 
hi caroline, my works canteen is just as bad, its all b potatoes, pasta , over kill of carbs, and they dont have a chef :(
 
You don't have to eat the food from the canteen though. I work on the Strand and I bring in my own lunch every day - it's much, much cheaper and I can ensure it's all stuff that doesn't mess up my D control.
 
hi deus , l know the strand very well, l think you would be spoiled for chose whot with m&s ,sainburys, etc ,no props
 
I still bring my own lunch in though - I simply can't afford to buy packaged lunch every day. Plus, invariably a packaged lunch is always some form of protein and fat wrapped up in a big ol' blanket of white carbs - generally one of the worst choices to make when it comes to foods that will be good on your blood sugar and waistline.
 
Rosie, I also take my own lunch every day. I work in a town centre with LOADS of food outlets around, some of which I could even afford! The trouble is that almost everything is full of the worst kind of carbs.

I spend maybe 15 minutes every night putting everything together so that I can just grab it from the fridge next morning. Do let us know if you want some examples of what us lunchboxers take.
 
Actually LeeLee, it would be great if you could give a few examples of low carb low cal lunch boxes. I need to lose a few kg myself, and it's not easy when I'm cooking meals for an energetic almost-teen boy as I end up eating as much as him!
 
OK, I'll put my thinking head on and stick some ideas in the Foodie thread.

Edit: DONE
 
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