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Hi to everyone, I'm from Melbourne Australia, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 22months ago 5 days before my 50th birthday (what a great present) & it has totally changed my life in good & bad ways.
Yes, it's rather expensive. Health insurance premiums keep rising too which doesn't help. Have you joined NDSS as yet? I hope so as you at least get discounted supplies for injecting/testing. Yes, diabetes certainly has a life of it's own and it's not always within your control. I've had a headache for past 3 days and today I've still got it (I should probably say migraine actually as my left eye keeps going blurry and I've got the nerve pain).... yesterday my BGLs spent most of the day on the high side, today it's the opposite. I've had to eat more already to try and get my BGLs stable. Having a headache and having low BGL at the same time is not fun! Anytime you have pain or stress your BGLs become unpredictable I find.Hey Onlymep, Yes, pretty shocked & had no choice than to accept to deal with it or meet my maker! I inject & my endo offered to put me on a pump but I can't afford $8,000 to buy one & can't afford health insurance for them to cover the cost - catch 22. My BGL have dropped since I completed a 5 day course to learn carb counting & injecting accordingly with what is eaten & am amazed with the results! It's still hard yakka as Diabetes has a life of its own sometimes,as you can do everything by the book to try & control it but still get highs & lows.
Cheers.
mate, what suburb? I'm Julie in Sunbury, just diagnosed within last week ......Hi to everyone, I'm from Melbourne Australia, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 22months ago 5 days before my 50th birthday (what a great present) & it has totally changed my life in good & bad ways.
Have been with NDSS from the start & don't know what I'd do without them. The side effects (for want of a better word) of Diabetes are one that I find hard to live with. Having low BGLs is bad enough, but with a headache? ARGH! I"m raising a teenage daughter on my own so live with stress daily, but find it doesn't interfere with BGLs thankfully.Yes, it's rather expensive. Health insurance premiums keep rising too which doesn't help. Have you joined NDSS as yet? I hope so as you at least get discounted supplies for injecting/testing. Yes, diabetes certainly has a life of it's own and it's not always within your control. I've had a headache for past 3 days and today I've still got it (I should probably say migraine actually as my left eye keeps going blurry and I've got the nerve pain).... yesterday my BGLs spent most of the day on the high side, today it's the opposite. I've had to eat more already to try and get my BGLs stable. Having a headache and having low BGL at the same time is not fun! Anytime you have pain or stress your BGLs become unpredictable I find.
Thanks for your welcome too Gizmo. I'm really surprised by all the replies, & everyone is so friendly.Welcome, solostar. Whether you want information, support or both, this is a great place to be.
Hey Julie, I live in the bayside suburb of Chelsea 20 mins north of Frankston. To be honest, I don't know alot about Type 2 other than, lifestyle changes (same as Type 1) and can be reversed. Is that right? How are you coping with it so early on in the piece?mate, what suburb? I'm Julie in Sunbury, just diagnosed within last week ......
Hello solostar and :welcome: to the forum. I hope that you will feel comfortable here. There is a wealth of information to be found here, read what interests you and if you can't find something, just go to the forum page and do a search in the white box. I hope you have the time to visit often and take care!Hi to everyone, I'm from Melbourne Australia, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 22months ago 5 days before my 50th birthday (what a great present) & it has totally changed my life in good & bad ways.
Maybe so, but it's still unnerving when a discussion with a licensed MD takes a turn like that! Holy cow!What's odd to me is that my own doctor didn't know that...I had a checkup last week and he said something about me losing the weight got 'rid' of my insulin resistance and so I told him about it just being under control and he looked me funny and then asked me if I was sure of that. He'd never heard of it that way. I guess since he's late '40's, he just didn't know about new understandings of the process. After all, I guess meters weren't around when he trained?
my doc has been practising for over 30 years... he looks like he is in his early 50's... he knows about meters thankfully. lol. I think it comes down to how up-to-date they keep themselves with new information. I even took a diabetic living magazine with me one time and showed him an article on latest research about a particular drug he was considering putting me on. He had never heard of the research and was grateful for me showing it to him. Our regular docs (here they're known as GP's) have to be across so much stuff that you can imagine it's impossible for them to know everything.... that's why they refer you to specialists for further treatment. I'd be worried if my endo didn't know something though.What's odd to me is that my own doctor didn't know that...I had a checkup last week and he said something about me losing the weight got 'rid' of my insulin resistance and so I told him about it just being under control and he looked me funny and then asked me if I was sure of that. He'd never heard of it that way. I guess since he's late '40's, he just didn't know about new understandings of the process. After all, I guess meters weren't around when he trained?