Have You Made Peace With The Fact You're Diabetic? - Page 3

glashalful · #31 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 04:04 PM

Wow -- great thread! And we're all over the place, aren't we?

I must admit I am the denial queen! I KNOW I have diabetes, but even just now writing it, I find it hard to believe! It's as if I think that every time I see a new endo, they're all making a colossal error! I fear that I really believe that the tests are all wrong, and I'm just sort of dealing with it because I should! I never really believed the t1 (vs t2) thing until after 15 years of diabetes ANOTHER new endo did a c-peptide that came back negative. For three years now (2.5 on the pump) I've been trying to get them to do another c-peptide because I just don't QUITE believe it was accurate. I'm just SURE that one day I'm going to wake up and realize it was all a nightmare!

The other part of me just doesn't really care -- I mean it's really not that big of a deal, especially with the pump, right? So I just muddle through, doing what they say I'm supposed to do (just so I don't feel like cr*p) -- but it's ALWAYS in the back of my mind that this is just all so stupid, and one day I'm gonna be REALLY pissed off about all this money I've spent unnecessarily!

Ok, having confessed my soul, I REALLY don't want to hear a bunch of cr*p from anyone trying to talk me into "getting" that I have diabetes, ok? I'm sensitive right now. I know I'm whacked, and I don't need anyone to tell me so!! LOL!

Elizabeth

#32 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 04:09 PM

no, i am not a peace with this inconvenient disease. I doubt i ever will be to tell you the truth. i must have some purpose or i would be dead by now, or at least that is what i think.

Funnygrl · #33 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by brownsugarbetes

no, i am not a peace with this inconvenient disease.

I guess I'm glad my disease is only "inconvenient."

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I doubt i ever will be to tell you the truth. i must have some purpose or i would be dead by now, or at least that is what i think.

Nope, you won't be, not with that attitude you have now, at least.

notme · #34 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 04:19 PM

Inconvenient is a very good word for diabetes. A death sentence it isn't if you take care of yourself.

If I had to chose a disease and I HAD to chose one, then this is definitely one that makes you get healthy. You eat right and exercise and you live a very long and healthy life like most others. It is not to say that you won't get unlucky and get a complication, but you can greatly reduce the chances if you don't ignore it.

Cancer, Hepetitis, AIDS, the list goes on and on. I will take type one diabetes over any of those, any day.

Dewey · #35 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by notme

Inconvenient is a very good word for diabetes. A death sentence it isn't if you take care of yourself.

If I had to chose a disease and I HAD to chose one, then this is definitely one that makes you get healthy. You eat right and exercise and you live a very long and healthy life like most others. It is not to say that you won't get unlucky and get a complication, but you can greatly reduce the chances if you don't ignore it.

Cancer, Hepetitis, AIDS, the list goes on and on. I will take type one diabetes over any of those, any day.

Thank you Nancy, & very well said!

I couldn't agree more.

I've lost loved ones & friends to Cancer. I lost my dad to a brain aneurysm, took care of my Mother-In-Law, who had Parkinson's and had an uncle who suffered from Alzheimer's.

I've helped a close friend (more like family member) fight his Cancer through multiple therapies, including a stem cell transplant - where they almost kill patients to rid their bodies of Cancer. After witnessing all the he** he went through (& personally helping him through it all), I'd totally take Diabetes over what he had ANY day of the week!

mg_2204 · #36 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 05:15 PM

I don't know if I'm at peace with it... I manage my diabetes. I have no choice. I hate the disease but since I'm 99.5% responsible for my happiness I have chosen to be happy nonetheless.

cheryl · #37 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 06:45 PM

When I ignored it I was fine, now I was hating it, but it's what I got to do.....I am not so much at peace sometimes, I guess it's all about just accepting the ups and downs, and trying not to look at the other persons' just awesome numbers....cause I am not them, they are not me...they have a good a1c good for em....I try....LOL.....as long as I don't see someone bragging how they never ever get high, and there diabetes is oh so perfect and never ever have issue's I am good LOL....sorry if anyone reads this that is perfect, it is envy LOL....

Cheryl

Alice · #38 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 08:38 PM

I guess I've always been at peace with it...otherwise it would be like asking for forgiveness for being "me". There are many people in the world with tougher crosses to bear...my college friend is now in his 50's and being fed by his parents due to MS.

I think he is at peace too. It's just life. We've both discussed how we are the same people no matter what physical challenges we might have to deal with now.

All I have to do is remember that I've had a pretty decent life and would be "at peace" if I died tomorrow. (Not tonight, I have two loads of laundry to finish!)

Very few people are born "perfect". Or, think "perfect".

Gary_W · #39 (**permalink**) 09-24-2007, 06:36 PM

On the days when it behaves itself and obeys the house rules, I'm pretty much at peace with it.

On the days where it does what it feels like and treats me like a hotel then no I'm not. These are the days when you want to get out the door and need to drive to an appointment for which you must not be late and 5 mins before you plan to leave a hypo turns up out of the blue when you know well and good you didn't whack in too much insulin. It just does it to be a pain in the rear end... Those are the days when I could slap it. When it's being vaguely civilised then I do fine; it's a minor inconvenience now we understand each others point of view.

In either case, you have no choice. The scenario above frustrates me but doesn't make me miserable. If this thing makes you down in the dumps then it's won and I'm not having that.

Gary

CaptDave4499 · #40 (**permalink**) 09-24-2007, 06:47 PM

No I have not accepted diabetes and hope to someday, but I more than likely never will.

seanmarr · #41 (**permalink**) 09-24-2007, 07:03 PM

I am at peace with my diabetes at the moment, but only because I take Prozac and it makes me not care about anything. If I could care, diabetes and the consequences it has had on me both biologically and socially would lead me to commit suicide. But what they hey, I'm at peace with it.

VinceF · #42 (**permalink**) 09-24-2007, 07:14 PM

I'm thinking I'm more at peace with myself and my circumstances...Diabetes never this is war! I plan to fight as long as I can. I can't remember not being diabetic. I was diagnosed at 5 years old.

blue_eyed_devil · #43 (**permalink**) 09-25-2007, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Staceyy

Its taken me two years to finally come to terms with this disease. I'm okay with it now.

hmmm, that is an awesome question.

yeah i have but that doesn't mean i always do.

i, like everyone have my really bad days. it's interesting because i think it's not that i haven't come to terms with diabetes - i think i just let my diabetes fall to the bottom of a very large heap and it becomes neglected, almost as if i'm punishing myself...

good thought provoking question.

lauren

catgalla · #44 (**permalink**) 09-25-2007, 05:42 AM

When I was first diagnosed in 1991 it really didn't phase me which was surprising to me and everyone else. I just take what's given to me and do what I have to do. I'm not the type of person to dwell on anything. Life is too short and like everyone else is saying, it could be a he#$ of a lot worse. At least we can keep healthy with meds. We have a choice to feel healthy or not (for the most part). Ya, sometimes it's a pain but it's something I have to deal with.

Alice · #45 (**permalink**) 09-25-2007, 10:07 AM

I've always had a theory that the older you are when diagnosed, the more difficult it is to "accept"...What do you all think about this? I am actually thankful that I was diagnosed as a child... with little drama from my parents. In fact, I have been pretty self-driven with this disease.

At age 7, I barely stopped to think about it...wasn't afraid and didn't hear the boloney people said about diabetics. Now that I'm older, I get irritated with drama queens (and kings) who can't handle the smallest inconvenience and who fight progress. I grew up waiting for the next "development"...and a lot has come our way. Meters and better insulin to name two. Pumps, a third.