Hello.
I am 18 years old and I was diagnosed with diabetes at 12. I am new in the forum and I decided to enter because it is a very useful way to ask for advice etc.
Lately I am quite worried about the disease.
I have started medicine this year, a change of airs, I enter the University, where I have to be responsible for everything because there are no longer the parents there at all times to take an eye.
Finding things about diabetes on the Internet has caused me a monumental disgust, things like almost 100% of type I diabetics have complications (nephropathy, retinopathy ...) they scare me.
Sometimes I imagine me without vision or having to make dialysis and I see it so horrible ...
I start making useless calculations of the time that could be in relatively healthy conditions (because of clear diabetes) based on mere and simple statistics that do not have to meet, but I cannot avoid it.And I think, 6 years of career, why will I end up blind or other complications?
I live, like you with the hope that they will get a cure, but I have almost despised it because the pharmaceutical companies do not compensate them and neither did I incamp on imposing health over money ...
In recent years he did not carry a good control of diabetes, with stress, assaults on the pantry for anxiety, lack of awareness and everything was complicated ...
Now I have glycosylated hemoglobin 6.9, I lowered a point with respect to the last one, I exercise more, but I do not stop thinking about what can happen and I obsess with things like I see bad) ...
My family tells me that with control nothing has to happen, but sometimes I think they can't understand me because they do not suffer from the disease and they do not pursue the wolf.
Thank you very much for your help.