The damn diabetes ........

The word diabetes should be synonymous with stress ...

I have been with this frightening chronic disease for 8 years, of which each more stressful than the other ....., I was diagnosed at age 17 and I am currently 25, I change my life, I was always very perfectionist, I have been control almostIdeal of the disease, but in tow what?of a constant Stress life ..... a lot of money ..... and exhaustion.

I do not believe in priests because I am realistic and I am aware of the concept "capitalism", therefore from my diagnosis I became the idea that I would accompany myself for life, at first it was not difficult for me to assimilate it, but as the years go by andI have more present the limitations that the disease brings me, it has become more difficult .....

I have read hundreds of encouraging messages here and in other forums such as "Do not let you control you, be happy, take control of your life, there are worse things, etc", they are all hooves, the disease will always be there, it isTruth that does not prevent you from "enjoying" certain things about life, but those activities that you can do, never do them without "worry" in a latent way about this damn disease, since in the end it always has an impact on some way on your being...........

I know many people with this disease since I am part of the diabetic association of my country, as well as leader of the children's camp of diabetics, I have seen many children fight against this terrible pathology, and I have oriented them to achieve better control and powerLiving more "peacefully", but at the end of the day ... you are still diabetic and life is only one ........

It is more and more to enjoy the pleasures of life, even the most basic such as eating (no matter howFriends (you can never enjoy the activities they do naturally like them), or simply have sex (I do not suffer from impotence that I know is one of the most common complications in diabetic men, but I have had hypoglycemia during theActivity, making it clear that diabetes "never abandons you ...").

In summary, I am very tired of this disease, which has no pause or respite ....... sorry for my language, but I am sorry ....

German

And if they are all hooves, what do you expect from us, from this forum?What do we pity you?No, I think it's not going to be.That this is tired, of course, look, I've been sleeping for 10 years for a night of a pull, do there are whole nights, hehehe?, And yet I am neither sunk nor I am going to sink, at least for this.So I recommend that you begin to accept what has touched you, that it is not little, and start living a little better, that I assure you that you can.
By the way, the impotence, I do not know, my husband is diabetic, he is 51 years, that with disconnecting the pump and if you see how a cookie is taken, it has more than enough ...
Greetings and welcome

@Velia

I do not look for me to pity or feel sorry for me, I'm already great for that ..... Maybe my message was not clear and that's why I apologize.I am very clear about what I have and I suffer, and I have accepted it years ago, I have a good control of luck of diabetes and I am very clear about the different types of treatments and their peculiarities ..... My problem is theexhaustion .... I feel exaust, and I can't help thinking about diabetes whatever the activity you do, when you mention sex, it was as an example of just what I am talking about, I still have 26 years to get to reachThe 51 as your husband and for what you tell me, I hope to be like this and work wonderfully ... but there is a reality, complication is a possibility, as well as an endless other complications in thisillness, and I have exhausted me having to constantly prevent those complications .... I work in a university hospital and I have seen many diabetics with endless subclinical ciflications related to this disease, perhaps a bit conditioned by my reality, but seeingDaily "where you can end ..." It is not at all encouraging ........ I do not intendType I, I express myself with the intention of transmitting my discontent with this damn disease, so I understood in the terms of use, it is an open forum and that is why I wrote what I wrote.

German

Hi @german,

I am 40 years old and 15 of diabetes, I understand very well what you say, and I share sensations, although I have to tell you that life follows, that those who have other diseases, or physical impediments, do not have it much easier than us, friend, we have to assume and accept it, and within the possibilities, because not?, enjoy it!

I have diabetes, yes, but also two daughters and friends, and a wonderful woman, so not, I am not going to complain, although, obviously, I would prefer not to have diabetes.

I can only encourage you to change the way to focus it, and you are more positive, as you say, this goes for long, encouragement !!;-)

German, tries not to think about what makes you suffer.The mind dominates, that she does not dominate you.It has been very good for me to do that.You cannot control the future, but live the present.
A hug

Something similar happened to me, I was moderately well of diabetes both at the level of glucose control and psychologically, until the "doctor" saw that he had not yet received any talk/conference for "education" in diabetes and diabetes andI force myself to attend one in the hospital of my city.

That all the problems and dangers will tell me, see live diabetics, with kidney problems, one with a probe, etc ... and on top of that they will tell you and treat you in a childish way almost for delayed.That the first thing I did when I went out was to buy a cake and that everything was over.I think the depression lasts until now 20 years later.

As for the sexual issue, I started taking pills years because I had problems in relationships and I worked for a while, about 3 or 4 years ... now with 42 I can even do it with pills.Above there are people who get angry when we say that diabetes is a terrible curse.

Sherpa, the same thing happened to me, but younger.Suddenly with 13 years or something, I realized that diabetes was not just puncturing and not eating cakes.And I sank, a lot ... I'm still feeling anger that my parents "hide" the truth.In addition, he also went to Plan Chocé, they put me in a "course" for young diabetics and the first thing they asked us was that if we wanted to die with 20 years of a heart attack ... if I found that nurse/educator I would sayFour very clear things.First because it is a lie and second because they are not ways and less to kids ...

After that (a few years old) I read and looked a lot of information and the conclusion I arrived is that the statistics are a hoax.They were 20 and more years ago (now 30 and 40 years old) where there were not the media now.Many studies are on type 2 diabetics. Hope for a 60 -year -old person without diabetes is 20 more years, we add diabetes and then subtract 5 years ... Conclusion: "Diabetics have a 15 -year life expectancy".Well, they go a little to shit and learn to draw conclusions.

Look for information in English, navigate the American forums, there are diabetics with many years of evolution and without complications or with minor complications that do not prevent doing anything (there was a 60 -year -old man and something DB since the age of 5, they gave him a hope ofLife of 10-20 years, and there I kept giving everything ...) really that there are very encouraging stories, others not so much ... but imagine that we are one of those DB that we reach the elderly with hardly any complications and we spend a lifetimeWaiting to see if we have kidney, view, circulatory problems ... I would sink into misery if that will happen to me, live bitter to die like the rest of mortals.

I am really happy now, I do not think I was much happier without diabetes (which does not mean that I would give everything to take this weight off ... I would mortgage to my eyebrows if with any payment treatment I would cure me).He has not prevented me from doing just diabetes ... The only thing to get drunk, but now I have my reward, my friends continue to "take some good weekends" and I have a son who wakes me up every day making me smile.I have been a mother with 25 years of diabetes behind my back and my parents told them that I could not have children.Surely my mother that's why I wake up more than one cry and now what?Well, he dies of love with his grandson.It is not worth suffering for the future.

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I cannot agree with what has been said, nobody wants to be diabetic, but you can live with it, focusing on the positive helps to have a better life, I encourage everyone!;-)

@fer:
I appreciate your optimistic vision of the matter, to read that people like you lead a normal life without letting diabetes "be positive" is always a breath.

@Regina:
For many years I followed that philosophy, "control the diabetes, do not let her control you", but there comes a time that diabetes ends up controlling you, perhaps I am much more weakened than you and I allow it more easy, but the effortthat requires following that principle exhausts me ....... and depresses me, because I know that for more effort I do, it will never go ........... (pd: I know it isA chronic disease, due to doubts ...)

@Sherpa41:
I share your feeling, I was diagnosed at age 17, and from the beginning to do everything as possible to carry good control, on my own he informed myself about the possible complications that it can bring, until for my profession, I have to seeIn the hospital many patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus, and I could see my future in my ownThat it depresses me as mentioned above is all that needs to be done to prevent that, and the worst thing is that anyone recognizes it, we should do monuments in public squares, just as they should give us an economic benefit by theGovernment, because let me tell you partner, I don't know in your country, but in mine being diabetic is extremely expensive ............ As you say, a terrible curse

@ica:
I have read many investigations regarding diabetes, especially in the "British Two of Medicine" where for what I saw, there are the most reliable research, it is always a breath, it is a fact that 50 years ago, being diabetic was much worseIn reference to treatment and independence, but at present, the better quality of treatment more money is required, at least in my country.That is just another of the characteristics of being diabetic that frustrates me, along with the repercussion it has in the body, for example I do not know if it happens to you, but since I am diabetic, I get sick more often, much more often, much more often,I feel that my defenses are practically null, and it is not due to a bad control of diabetes, I feel more weak, and I also feel "diabetes you hate you, I hate diabetes!", But hey, it's what I feel ....... I am glad that you are a mother and happy with your son, those stories as I mentioned above are always a breath

Well, certainly you are all right in your approaches.But although I think it is always our obligation to show ourselves as positive that we can, both for our own good and that of the family, it is true that this is sometimes hard.And I understand Germán well and has every right to express himself as he has done.And why not, you can also enter the forum to vent, surely it has been good.This is a disease and bad to carry and sometimes exhaustion, rebellion, unease and tiredness come.
I hope you will happen soon, Germán, but you have all the right to kicking.

Of course, and more than once I have eaten something "forbidden" as a kick when the DB has prevented me from doing something.Recently I wrote a thread commenting that diabetes was taking its toll to my relationship with my partner.Come on, it is not nonsense the diabetes, but it is what there is ... it is better to be happy with it, because but we will never be

Hi German you carry all the reason this is the worst and the worst of all the thinking that you do what you do will always be the same for that reason it is better to enjoy and look at all the good things in life and leave the disease in 2nd plane(I do not mean that we go from taking care of ourselves) I spend that every time I do something I do it with fear of if I get off and the truth is that it is shit (sorry for the word)
Once a person told me to think if the diabetes had brought something good I told him a resounding and he insisted that he thought good and something good has very little but something good has, for example the camp and helpThe children etc. It seems to me something that is good and that if you did not have diabetes you would never have done it
It is better that we would have ever had it but it has not been so so you better get everything good that this damn disease gives us that it seems not but there are.
all the best

Well, speaking of the subject, it is relevant to repeat, because I have already commented in some post, that my daughter's diabetes brought me to my husband.My greatest support, not only in this, but in all aspects of my life.In addition to the occasional friend who had not found.
What I think is that the greater the preparation, the greater the knowledge, the better quality of life will have.

Your diabetes approach = stress seems really successful.

At least in my case, all the experiences I have had with diabetes and that could have been interesting;Works, trips, sports, etc., I was more pending of sugar, eating, clicking me ... not of the activities I did and always with a stress so great that I barely enjoyed anything.Even with sex.In the end I have left everything or left me.

German!First to relax, second a good party k you need and third, diabetes ... well it is a chronic disease that I have it from the two years old, in addition to multiple sclerosis: 3 and Celiaquia among other things .. I am 22Years and I enjoy everything, what sugar is lowered?A sugar or gluten -free juice, which climbs sugar?To the pool or gym, thanks to diabetes I have a body!And I have a good diet, I am intelligent and I study at the university, my second career!There is only K take care and have fun :) Akuna Matata: 3

For my German, he is quite right in everything he says because I feel something similar at least every so often (perhaps), because I get a downturn for the exhaustion that this disease entails daily.
I also have some complication and I have always kept control well and that demoralizes me even more because I don't know what I could do badly;But I don't have much time to complain because I have to take together with my mother of my brother with multiple sclerosis, and if I compare myself with him it is clear to me that his thing is worse.Even so, and for some things and others almost always with low morals;In fact, as I said here I stopped going to the endocrine because I couldn't take his comments more in bad modes, and he is already going for more than 1 year that I don't consult and I still think about it;What they tell me and I know, but it is not enough for me to speak badly and ignore the rest of the complications.
I suppose this depends on how each one is at every moment.

adj, where are you from?You may have already commented on another post but I have not read you ... you can request a change of specialist.Not all endos are bad, and if you do not feel that they are attending you adequately you should try to change.Come, courage !!!

Velia, I am from Salamanca, and the endo with which I have been is precisely the head of the Salamanca University Hospital (the only one in the city and surroundings), so I have some fear that if I change myself asEndo the new is already conditioned by the boss with respect to me.
I know it seems nonsense but I think so.

AJD, there are endocrine that all they know how to do is blame the patient without giving another solution.They are the most inept.A good endocrine knows how to dialogue, listen, advise and negotiate with the patient.And the best are the ones that tell you: this we have to study it and me, and draw conclusions.
When they give you that trust, you know you have the best.
Try to find it to be calmer.

That is precisely something that happened to me and several times with the same endocrine with which there is no one to speak.I tell you an anecdote;The one who is my primary care doctor has its diabetic mother with insulin for many years and once it was revision, it was precisely with the same endo as me.Well, in the consultation the two doctors had a discussion for something that affected the lady and the endocrine threw from the consultation her partner with which they did not return by said consultation.I told my doctor who had a specialist and told me that it was a bad person and that it can only be discussed with him and that it is best to change me.
It has already happened to more people with him, I am not the only one.