Hi, I'm new, I have a newly diagnosed teenage son

Hello, how are you Alberto, father of a teenager who has diagnosed him with type 1 diabetes this September.

The truth is that we are learning a lot and trying to deal with adolescence with the acceptance of the disease.

I can not complain because it is behaving like a champion, but surely here I find a lot of information that is going to do to me and hopefully with him to discharge him, because now we are in the negation phase, but everything will arrive.

Greetings to all!

Hello @katmandu25 welcome !!!

It is normal that it is in the negation stage, and who not in its place?At that age we want to be the same as our group, no differences, we dress the same, we like music, the same games, etc.Nobody wants to be the "weird."
And it is very difficult for you to understand, the more you try, the more it closes.

In these cases, I believe that the events that diabetics organizations do for adolescents help a lot, since they know other boys of their age in the same circumstances and normalize a bit of needing exogenous insulin.

Put an eye if you have any near where you live

Welcome @katmandu25 and much encouragement, that you will see how with time everything will be normalized.

Welcome to the forum @Katmandu25.Everything you tell is normal, so you'll see how in a short time you are all much more adapted.I share the opinion of @ruthbia as to resort to some association of diabetics in the area where you live.They organize many activities for kids and that will encourage you a lot, sure.

Welcome and go to the forum when you need it here there are people who are a well of wisdom of this disease

The normal thing is not to accept it, the strange thing would be for the diagnosis to accept with all his life ahead.But calm that will assimilate it long before you imagine.And with a little information and a quite willpower, it will in a short time normalize the new situation.

Now you will be the whole family in the stage of assimilation, understanding and learning.In the forum you will find an answer to many of the doubts.Something very important that it would be good having information: food and its consequences in good diabetological control.

He thinks you are stopping a product (insulin) and today, fortunately, we can complement what we lack.When this happens, each supply (prick) is a doses of life.

Courage, and don't open.You will see how everything adapts to the new situation.

@katmandu25 welcome to the forum.Here we are to help us solve doubts to each other.

About denial, do not open yourself, think that I debuted three years ago, now I have 48, and there are still times that I do not believe it is diabetic.

Greetings and calm, which in the end can be perfectly cool.

@katmandu25 welcome.Enter patience, adolescence is a complicated stage.I, just like @sandman I still wonder what I am diabetic?It seems that they are things that only happen to others.In this forum you will find a lot of very good information and selfless support that is very comforting

@katmandu25 I attest to it ... I have been with the disease, I am 46 years old, and with my age I am still in the phase of digesting ... I hope that little by little.They have always told me that the younger one is debuted sooner with it ...

The same thing happened to me as to most of which we debut already older (I with 47), which still a few years later we do not just believe it ...