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My idiot selfish brother takes all my food that I buy myself for my meals during the week, he knows I am diabetic, but that doesn't stop him. I have told my mum either he stops taking my food or I stop eating completely. I just want to know what would happen to me if I started putting insulin in my food (to stop him eating it). What would happen if I ate it? Surely I wouldn't get ill as I don't have any insulin in my brother.

BTW, I haven't done it yet I am just curious, just in case I have to start doing it. When he takes my food I can't eat so I can't take my insulin.
 
Insulin doesn't do anything if you eat it, your stomach digests it before it has had the chance to work. That's why you have to inject it. Can't you eat his food if he eats yours? There is no reason why you can't be eating the same food as him anyway (unless he does nothing but stuff his face with doughnuts all the time, but that's not healthy for anyone!). If you are on insulin you just inject according to what you eat, or haven't you been taught to carb count yet? How long have you been diagnosed?
 
Um I'm actually a bit concerned that you're thinking about injecting your food with insulin just to stop your brother from eating it. What were you expecting to happen? Actually he'd be fine, but does it not occur to you that giving someone else your medication when they don't need it can make them seriously ill? Or even kill them? I know brothers can be annoying, and yours seems to be particularly ignorant in not even trying to understand your situation, but you shouldn't be trying to "poison" your food just to stop him eating it!

Please get some advice from your doctor or a dietician about what you can and can't eat and then see if you can get your mum on side and sort out how family meals can be organised in your house. I don't cook separate meals for my daughter, she eats what we eat, so there's no reason why you should have separate food either.
 
@Sally71
He doesn't have any money so he eats all my food. I have to plan my meals each week as my mum started getting worried about me not eating. So when he eats my food I have nothing. My mums at work in the week so I have to prepare my own lunches and when she gets home I have what everyone else eats. I've asked him to ask me before he touches my food. He never does. I wasn't expecting anything to happen, he doesn't know anything about diabetes or insulin so I thought maybe if I told him there was insulin in it he would be scared and not touch my food ever again. That's all.
 
@KleboldKlan
How old is he?
Putting Insulin, in fact anything in anyones food is really not a good idea or wise.
If a converstaion doesn't work then the only way I can think of is to find another location, maybe a small table top fridge, for yourself and lock it.
I really am stuggling how you could resolve this if he is deaf to your pleas.
 
Well I suppose you could tell him the food had insulin in it when it didn't, and maybe he'd be none the wiser, but that still doesn't seem like a very good idea to me, lying and being deceptive is never good! I agree with Vince, can you not hide/lock your food away anywhere else where he can't get at it?

Surely your mum provides food for him if he is unable to buy his own? If you are planning your meals could you not perhaps help to plan your brother's too, so if your mum is making the evening meal, you make the lunch and then you can ensure that he doesn't eat anything you don't want him to. Other than that I really don't know what to suggest, sorry :(
 
KleboldKlan said:
So when he eats my food I have nothing. My mums at work in the week so I have to prepare my own lunches and when she gets home I have what everyone else eats. I've asked him to ask me before he touches my food.
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Must admit to being very confused by your statement.

What is so special about your food, yet you eat the same as everyone else in the evening?
Having type1 diabetes doesn't stop you eating the same as everyone else.
 
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Time to move out young man. This is no way to live arguing over food you sound like your living in a hostel/prison. My personal opinion not a good family life. Move on get your own place. Your family should be supporting you not hindering you.
 
Me again sorry. This is bugging me for some reason!

If your mum is the one who's worried about you not eating, why is she not more interested in helping you to solve the problem? Have you asked her for help?

I understand why you have to prepare your own lunch, but why do you have to buy it as well? Presumably food is provided for your brother if he has no money, why does yours have to be separate? I think if my daughter still lives here when she's old enough to start earning her own money, I'll find it easier just to ask her for a contribution towards general household food and bills rather than making her buy her own. Then we'll just carry on as we are now - one person cook a main meal for everyone, and fill the fridge and cupboards with a general selection of other foods for lunches, and everyone helps themselves with no need to mark anything as reserved for any one person. My daughter is only 11 but already helps herself to her tea and is getting pretty good at working out the carbs, she doesn't need much help from me any more; and if I've forgotten to buy whatever her favourite fad is that week, then she just chooses something else. There's always basics like bread, eggs, cheese etc that you can do something with.

Sorry if this sounds a bit rude, it's not meant to; I'm just trying to understand why you've got a problem in the first place. Surely the food you buy can't be the only food in the house? So if "your" food disappears there must be something else you can eat instead? Unless you have any other special dietary requirements which you haven't mentioned, but type 1 diabetes alone does not require special food.
 
I have to say this - im disgusted that you would even think to do this. Knowing that potentially it could cause your brother harm.

Maybe rather than attempting to come up with vindictive horrible ways to stop your brother eating your food that you look at positive ways to make changes.
 
Just re-read original post. You asked if you would get I’ll? That makes me think that you knew or thought he might get ill. Either way it’s a criminal offence to administer or adulterate/poison someone.
If he eats your food. How come there is food left for evening meals? None of your statement makes sense. There is more to this than food. You need to see a gp about your mental health.
 
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