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I am very new to this website and reading up about diabetes and such. I was diagnosed when I was a freshman in high school and I honestly thought it was the best thing that could have happened to me because before diabetes I didn't care about myself or my body at all. And in a way diabetes made me think more about myself and what I was doing to my body. This mentality last me for only about a year. I started to get careless with checking my sugar and taking my insulin, and it has gotten worse. Towards the beginning of my junior year in high school I started losing weight and I started to feel really good about myself and they way I looked and such. Here lately, I don't take my insulin before I eat, or before bed and I never check my sugar. I'm constantly thirsty, i'm always eating and i'm always in the bathroom. My friend has gotten worried about me and told me about something she read about diabulimia. I get on the internet to check it out and I come across a really interesting blog about someones expierence with it and I can almost completely relate to it. So i've decided to sign up to this website and maybe, just maybe I can get some help from people who can relate before things with me spiral out of control. So, anyone with words of wisdom, hit me with it. I'm willing to listen to anything as of now.
Hey Jess,
I'm glad you're checking out the site, because Type 1 diabetes isn't simple and we really all need a lot of support all the time. I think you'll go through phases of your life where having diabetes is manageable and you're willing to do what it takes to keep it in great control...and then other phases of your life diabetes can become this hugely enormous annoying awful thing that you just can't stand. And it is possible to get yourself out of that phase---because the longer you stay in it, the more permanent damage your body will endure. Right?
So, first off, check out a couple articles on here:
This one is written by Tressa. What you're doing to your blood sugars by not taking your insulin with your meals is a method of losing weight called "Diabulimia." It is a type of eating disorder that is common in young women with Type 1 diabetes. But it is hurting you and you know this because you know you don't feel well. It's time to figure out what you need to help yourself get back on track.
Read her blog HERE.
And also check out these:
Getting back into control.
Some things I've learned about diabetes...
We've got a lot of blogs on here from our Experts and from other teens experiencing a lot of the same things you are. It's not easy!!! Diabetes is HARD! But I can tell you personally, when diabetes has felt "easy" for me, it's when I do everything I'm supposed and I take care of it well, because then I feel HEALTHY and HAPPY and I can do everything else that I want to in my life without diabetes holding me back.
Check out those blogs and let me know whatya think, if you have any specific questions or other stuff you want to talk about!!! We're all here!!!
-Ginger