DiabetiConfessions

DiabeticConfessions Because, come on, we all have a few Diabetic things to confess. So go on, submit a few confessions, because chances are, you're not alone, and here you can find people who will understand you.

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And the Humalog condition…

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I starve myself of insulin and binge to make myself go into DKA to lose weight. No one knows I do this. It works. But I’m terrified of the long term effects I might have if I keep it up, at the same time I can’t bare to stop because my diabetes makes it so hard to lose weight normally and I’m still so hurt to have it at all.

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My dianniversary is on my dad's birthday? And i kinda feel jipped knowing I'm never ever ever going 2 get 2 celebrate it. 10 years since I was diagnosed, and it's my dad's birthday and I KNOW that my dianniversary doesn't actually matter and his birthday does. I just feel so disappointed. In myself 4 being jealous. 4 caring. 4 trying 2make myself STOP caring. 4 feeling like i have a right 2 care about this more than about his birthday. i feel like i don't deserve 2 celebrate until i am perfect - Anon

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Everyday I struggle with testing and medicating because I still don't feel like I'm diabetic I know I am but that's the only way I can cope with everything around me by not taking care of myself and it really hurts when I see photos or hear people see sugary things and say something about diabetes and it hurts even more when it's people who know about it like they don't have any decency 😭

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I often fake having lows to get out of things I don't want to do. - Anon

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My retinopathy has been getting worse and its so scary. Sometimes i close my eyes and try to do normal tasks to 'prepare' myself if i become blind. its so scary and i hate it when people say diabetes isnt even that bad and i just need to eat healthy, like fuck you. - Anon

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Had someone tell me I was just using diabetes as an excuse to not go to class today and that I should be ashamed of myself. My bg spiked then plummeted this morning before class. Never have I wanted to slap someone and cry like this at the same time. It hurts so bad. I wish people weren't so ignorant about this disease. - Anon

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Question?

I’m now 15 and I’ve been a diabetic as long as I can remember but lately I’ve come to think what my life would be like if I had never been a diabetic. Any tips to get trough my little situation? -  mlpfim2010

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I literally just went off on my school nurse assistant. No emotions/ All emotions due to high blood. Watch out. - Anon

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Pump Malfunction

So the nurse at my high school is tired of my bad grades due to the fact I miss a lot of class because I don’t do the best to take care of myself. So when I want to come to the nurse because I’m feeling so shitty with my health she sends me right back to class. One time I felt low and tested at 90 something and went and she said i was fine and sent me on my way even though I said I know my body I feel like I’m going low! And when I walked back to class 10 minutes in I was in the low 40’s! So I go back and told her and she apologized but was kinda pissy I was right. Anyways so today… My pump is malfunctioning and won’t deliver insulin I was 497 when I woke up, then it goes up to OVER 600, so I change my needle and the resovior and I went down to 537 but now she wants me to test every 15 minutes even though insulin works through 2 hours and if I have keystones and are above 300 I’m supposed to be sent home! Also she got mad at me for not having a tester in her office when I’m an logged as independent. I should’ve been sent home to take care of this like an hour ago. But she’s trying so hard to get my attendance up that I’ll have a B in class but also have a seizure and lose everything I’ve worked hard for.

- UGH why don’t nurses and teachers have diabetes so they’d understand

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When I get pissed off at my mom, I don’t eat or don’t give insulin then tell her I did…even though I regret it later, I still do it…

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I read down, & I saw a lot of stuff about not wanting to be different and hiding being diabetic in front of strangers. I got it when I was 9 and went through depression and rebelling against my parents and my health needs not taking medicine etc, but like I always loved the attention I got from people who didn't know much about diabetes. And like I still do I love when people ask questions and want to understand what I am going through. And the differences especially since the crossfit incident - Anon

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Question?

I don't understand why people prick the tips of their fingers??? I am a pianist, so a try to keep my fingers pristine, and I prick on the fleshy part of the side my hand. Way less nerve endings, usually easier to get blood. But im the only person i know who does this. Is there a specific reason why it's done with fingers? - Anon

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I had a period of about six months where I hated my diabetes. I had had it for twelve years. Twelve years of blood pricking and injecting and routine finally dragged me down (and later on, I found that this was due to my other medication giving me depression and making me borderline suicidal). But I loathed it, nd coupled with my Hashimoto's, coeliac and anaemia, I felt like everything was too difficult. And so I ignored it. Out of sight, out of mind. My hba1c, which was usually well controlled, doubled. My mozzie bites never healed. My grades slipped from As to Bs, then dropped. I began failing classes. I lost weight. I now have a black spot in my vision, on the lower left area of my right eye. I'm just grateful it's not in the centre. My doctor told me bluntly that I was at risk for kidney problems, and gave me a choice. Continue, and end up on a dialysis before I'm thirty, or face the music. He then employed scare tactics, and showed me images of nerve damage, amputations, blindness and dialysis. By this time, I was off the other medicene that was screwing with my mind. It worked. I started crying there, because if anything, I want to live. I want to study maths and physics, I want to discover the secrets of nature. I want that. If that means meticulously weighing out my food, pricking my hand day in day out, I am prepared. We as diabetics take our medication for granted, i think. A hundred years ago, none of us would have survived. Now, we have a relatively painless way of injection, and soon, we may even have a pump that does everything its self. (I myself wore a prototype of one. The sensor was terrible, unfortunately.) But we have been given the oppurtunity to live. To see the world, to make an impact. We are lucky to be born in this time, were we can live if we work hard. Work hard at our health, work hard at our jobs and pull the extra hours so we can afford our insulin. It's unfair, but when is anything fair? I now have a black spot in my vision. It never goes away. It distracts me when I read. But that's okay. Because it's a reminder of what will happen if I give up. I can only live if I try.

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One time this girl said that i was lying about being diabetic because, and i quote, "you're, like, anorexic." I'm type 1, but that doesn't even really matter here, as type 2 diabetes doesn't even necessarily correlate with weight. Weight can be a contributing factor, but so is genetics, and anything that impedes the metabolic processes, but I know a few type 2 diabetics who have healthy body ranges. I was mad, yes, but then I couldnt really blame her for being ignorant or misinformed. The amount of well known false information about diabetes is staggering, and it makes me infuriated to see people blaming someone for disease that requires incredible maintenance or making assumptions because of body weight. Type 1s can be overweight. Type 2s can be thin.

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Do you see a paper cut as time to test your blood sugar?

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I try so hard to keep up with my diabetes but somehow I was end up putting it in the back burner. I recently visited my doctor and I've lost 20 pounds(everyone thinks I have a fast metabolism cause I eat SO MUCH but gain no weight but actually it's because I don't ever take my insulin and eat like shit) my doctor thinks I'm depressed and should get help. He might be right but I'm too prideful for that. I'll rather die but then I think of how people would talk/say about me if I did. So I'm stuck.