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01-09-2008, 02:28 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,299
| | | I hate Hypers and I hate the mood swings that come with Diabetes.
The Highs I can fix fairly easy, the mood swings are hard to take because I want to rip everything apart and punch them sometimes.
Don't mind the lows very much.
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Frodo to Samwise
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01-09-2008, 04:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,551
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Originally Posted by caswellhb  The lows. I hate them with a passion. Waking with a low during the night really makes me nuts.
Heather. |
Hey I am with you there!! and always have something with me when that happens.
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Originally Posted by karlf Other poeples attitudes and ignorance | Yeah like I like my food and other people judge you "Can you have that" That would have to be so annoying. I like my food!! and that is no secret. D*mn people and their opinions.
If I want a Hershey bar, Then I will have it, I cannot stand criticisms!!!
__________________ We inject to stay alive!!! So that i can enjoy what you enjoy!!!  A1C for July '08 5.9 MMOL/L
Peter... Insulins Novorapid and Levemir. 
So I am well armed to enjoy food of any kind!!!  |
01-12-2008, 11:53 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: N GA
Posts: 17
| | | Ya, have to agree with the people asking if I should eat this or that... Going hypo SUCKS!!! For me, it's dealing with my job. Constantly being told I can't do this or that and then being treated like a second class citizen because I don't have a course or school that everyone else does. And not because I can't physically complete the school, but because they are ignorant and are scared. |
01-12-2008, 12:00 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Nebraska
Posts: 338
| | | The thing I think that bothers me the most is the progressivness of this disease. I watched my grandmother develop Retinopathy and go blind and am fighting like mad to educate myself so I can have all my functions when Im 80.
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A1c 7 fall 2007. 50 yr old. 3 diabetic pregnancies w/ insulin 10,12,14 yrs ago.  Thankfully reverted back to 'non-diabetic' after all 3. Re-diagnosed 2007. Fighting high fasting BS currently( dawn phenomenon), 2000 mg Metformin (1000 mg 2x day)  Mother to 9 boys and 5 girls. Grandmomma to 4 with a 5th on the way.
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01-12-2008, 01:56 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 3,293
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Originally Posted by susique333 the progressivness of this disease. |
My fear too  |
01-12-2008, 02:53 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 921
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Being high as a kite when being sick Before i got diabetes, i was just sick when being sick, now i have to struggle both with the illness and high bloodsugar (currently fighting a cold...)
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen  |
01-12-2008, 03:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,831
| | | I hate the fact that it will never go away. That my pancreas will never function properly and I cannot survive without taking insulin.
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01-12-2008, 04:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,740
| | | I know this thread is about what the bad things are . . . but I'm extremely greatful to have you all online to commiserate with.
Nothing worse than the horrible lows. My worse & scariest lows were accidental overdoses due to incorrect meter coding.
__________________  Type 1 since 1979
Pumping with MM 522 since Feb '08
HbA1c 6.1 - April '08 |
01-12-2008, 04:48 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 8
| | | the very idea I have it - in that it means am not as invincible as I always viewed myself |
01-12-2008, 05:06 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: N GA
Posts: 17
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Originally Posted by IBEW47 the very idea I have it - in that it means am not as invincible as I always viewed myself |
I feel for ya! I feel the exact way... Been to bad places and lived through it, done things most people haven't, pushed my self to do things most sane people wouldn't, then get broke down because I go hypo. It will keep a person humble, but I question it everytime... What potential could I posses if I wasn't diabetic?
On the other hand, I have taken the anger about being diabetic, taken the feeling sorry for myself and turned it into my tacklin fuel. I figure if I can do the things that my peers are doing and do the same, it makes me better because I am doing something with a negative against me right off the bat. |
01-12-2008, 05:49 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 8
| | | so far it has not really stopped anything - but just knowing I am not who I was is and continues to be daunting -
thank you so much for posting back - its the first time I have "met" someone who gets it |
01-12-2008, 06:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sweden
Posts: 27
| | ....that when life itself and Diabetes added to that, slap you around real hard and your looking at another day of slapping back even harder.
Gimme a rest, ******! |
01-12-2008, 07:08 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,551
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Originally Posted by yellowlab03 being treated like a second class citizen because I don't have a course or school that everyone else does. And not because I can't physically complete the school, but because they are ignorant and are scared. | Yes Yellowlab, I find that people in hospitals keep you high just because they are scared that I may get a low. They don't like panic as in a hospital they should understand that to panic is not caring. To understand the patient need rather than just compensating the for the low.
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Originally Posted by susique333 The thing I think that bothers me the most is the progressivness of this disease. I watched my grandmother develop Retinopathy and go blind and am fighting like mad to educate myself so I can have all my functions when Im 80. | Me too Susie, As I was diagnosed late the complications seem to come on in later life.
So for those who are diagnosed early have better chance of a normal life.
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Originally Posted by Jan B I know this thread is about what the bad things are . . . but I'm extremely greatful to have you all online to commiserate with. | Yes Jan, As this is not a rare disease so we can cry on other understanding people and vent our anger against this soul robbing disease. 
__________________ We inject to stay alive!!! So that i can enjoy what you enjoy!!! A1C for July '08 5.9 MMOL/L
Peter... Insulins Novorapid and Levemir.
So I am well armed to enjoy food of any kind!!! |
01-12-2008, 08:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Milton Keynes. U.K.
Posts: 666
| | | I'm still invincible but at the moment hating the highs. Sheesh, they just love me.
Heather.
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Sing, dance, love and laugh. These are the true foods of life.
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01-13-2008, 10:15 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sweden
Posts: 27
| | | Forgot about this one..as I just experienced it again today.
After almost 3 decades you get pretty tired of people who despite total lack of knowlege about Diabetes and myself in general, still think its OK to start lecturing me on how I should treat my Diabetes...
...based on a few lessons they had in High school about the most comon deseases.. Zzzz |
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