[NoraWI]

Sounds to me as though you are still growing. You have a relatively recent DM diagnosis and have been pumping for under a year. It is also probable that your insulin needs to be readjusted. A pump regimen is a work in progress and needs to be reevaluated and "tweaked" frequently, especially if you are in your teens. Male teenagers normally eat a LOT. 150 daily carbs is probably not enough for you. December 17 is just around the corner. Let us know what your doctor does and what advice you get.

[NoraWI]

Originally Posted by MinimedPumper07

I have just felt this crappy and tired for 4 months. My parents think i'm kidding so they just made an appointment for "a few months down the road"....

Here is my symptoms

I am tired all day. I get 7-10 hrs of sleep, but within 2 hrs im tired again

At times I feel really dizzy lightheaded like I'm drunk

Sometimes I get a crazy intolerance to heat

I see tons of floaters lately and even the odd flash of light

I have to add that with these symptoms you HAVE to have your insulin pump readjusted. Who does that? Your doctor? The MiniMed people? Your parents? You? Sounds to me as though you are having both highs and lows. Not good at all. Address these issues with your doctor. YOU should be taught to adjust your pump so you can do it yourself and not need to wait "for months" for a doctor's appointment!

[Gordonm]

I suggest as others have if you can go to a gym and get some excercise. If you can get some training advice and nutrition advice. You should not be tired all day. If you sit around and do nothing that is what your body expects and will do. I'm 5'7" and stay right around 140 pounds. I eat about 200g of carbs and excercise when time allows me. I sleep maybe 8 hours a night and have plenty of energy, I'm also 44 years young. Get out and get moving and eat right. Be thankful of your weight. Hopefully you will be thin your whole life, a lot healthier to be thin than overweight.

[MinimedPumper07]

Maybe its an eating disorder but the thing is I have been eating the same way for over a year and only a few months ago I started getting tired all the time. My bg is under control. 90% of the time im between 80-160. I was looking at iron deficiency anemia too. Those seem to be almost the same symptoms as the thyroid ones, weak,tired dizzy, grumpy. I hope for god sake i just need to take an iron tablet once a day and i will start feeling better. I will let u all know on the 17th, 15 more days...

[duck]

Be careful what you wish for...

[BriOnH]

Saying you wish you were fat is rather offensive. I know it wasn't meant that way at all, but you have to remember that 80% of type 2 diabetics are overweight, and there are many type 2 diabetics here that are struggling with being overweight. I feel your pain, but please try to remember others pains as well komrade.

[shockme]

.........and i wish i was thin.......too bad we can't trade..........trish

[cheryl]

Originally Posted by BriOnH

Saying you wish you were fat is rather offensive. I know it wasn't meant that way at all, but you have to remember that 80% of type 2 diabetics are overweight, and there are many type 2 diabetics here that are struggling with being overweight. I feel your pain, but please try to remember others pains as well komrade.

I have been now on both sides of the coin, overweight child, called fat, and felt horrible. Now i am really thin, and peple saying skinny and no butt and just all that is offensive too. I hate being called thin, or skinny or a bone. Both extremely hurt and I have been on both sides now.....

Cheryl

[MinimedPumper07]

sorry brion, how about this, i wish i was average. I dont wanna be fat, and i dont wanna be able to see my ribs stick out

[type1since82]

So what did you find out after your doctor's appointment? I hope you got an answer or at least a possibility.

[Bivry]

I have a generally good control of my sugars. People comment on how thin I am and tht i need to put on some weight just like so many people in this forum have mentioned. Now I work in a restaurant called Gourment Burger Kitchen so I eat at least one or two high calorie beef or chicken burgers a day. Still I am 6 ft tall and weigh 142 pounds. I think I have lost weight recebtly because I remember being 146 pounds at some point. Is going to the gym the only way to put healthy weight for me because i don't have the time to go to the gym!

[R2112]

Originally Posted by MinimedPumper07

I have just felt this crappy and tired for 4 months. My parents think i'm kidding so they just made an appointment for "a few months down the road"....

Here is my symptoms

I am tired all day. I get 7-10 hrs of sleep, but within 2 hrs im tired again

At times I feel really dizzy lightheaded like I'm drunk

Sometimes I get a crazy intolerance to heat

I see tons of floaters lately and even the odd flash of light

I can't seem to gain weight no matter what. I do exercise and I eat all kinds of food, cheese, milk, vegetables, sugar, meats fishes, juices...

This is all depressing me because I used to be so energetic. My life feels like a pos right now and all I do is think about when I'm gonna see a doctor. I am currently in school and this is my last quarter so I need really good grades so imagine having to study your butt off but always being tired... 20 more days until i see the doc and prove my parents wrong...

That's a lot of issues...

Did you finally see a doctor about all this?

You know the irony about this... is that "dumb" BMI index chart thing. Your 5-10 and 145 lbs, according to the BMI table, your weight is perfect yet you feel under-weight. Compare myself, I'm 6' and my weight is 190 lbs. and I feel pretty darn good at this weight but according to the BMI table I should be no more than 175 lbs. Now I don't consider myself overweight but I am according to the table. I don't want to weigh 175 because I feel (for myself) I wouldn't feel healthy. Who came upwith this chart anyway?

Sorry to veer off topic a bit but like others said, it's how you feel with about your weight too.

Hope things are getting better.