[tryingtobeme]

Anyone here a diabetic and wish it would just take over your life completely so you could be gone?

[Skully]

I have a puppy that is diabetic. It is a lot of work I know. Try to hang in there, your life is worth living!!

[madisgram]

i have it and for me it's the worst dx i've ever been given, imho.

[Skully]

(((tryingtobeme)))
(((madisgram)))

hugs to you both. I admire your courage to continue when faced with adversity and illness. You both deserve a medal!

I have been recently and do not take it as serious as I should I know ...

I am not worried about it I take my meds for it and get on with life I will not let it rule me. Its not the end of the world.

[tryingtobeme]

Thanks everyone who responded but don't worry about it any more. I am the one that is wrong according to everyone else and all the therapist.

[Fresia]

I have several family members that I cared for who were diabetic and know of the toll, frustration, and pain it causes. Their lives revolved around the illness and just trying to manage it, mine became that too. We had to make a more pointed effort to bring joy into their lives so that it was worth getting through the days. Things began to lift when you find the things you really enjoy doing and taking the focus off the illness. It took a lot of planning because of the timing of injections, carrying meds with us, etc. but life became more fulfilling for them and about them, not the diabetes. I hope you too can find something(s) that bring more pleasure than pain; it is just an illness and does not have to be the focus of life, is a part of it but is not all that you are. You deserve more and deserve happiness. Try to find it, so worth it.

[madisgram]

well if i understand u correctly they are saying your attitude stinks. am i right? if so here's what i have done that helps me-i can't change what is and by not obssessing/focusing on the downside helps. course i am aware of the ramifications of diabeties but i had to stop allowing it to define me. it made me too depressed looking at it that way. i try to eat sensibly but don't always. i used to feel so guilty about that. i cried when the doc put it on my chart cause it made it final. today i try to think it as just one of my dx's and do the best i can. that's really all i can do. it has taken getting used to but i have a lot of unrelated health conditions so i just chalk it up as one more.
hope this helps you.

[tryingtobeme]

Originally Posted by Tishie

Its not the end of the world.

It can be if you don't watch it. Please choose more encouraging words or as Bambi said "if you can't say something nice (something positive) don't say anything at all". It's not nice to be harsh when people (me) you are responding too is having a hard time. No everyone can just pick themselves up so quickly as others. I think that is what this site if for, is for support not to be kicked around some more.

I did not mean it to be harsh or to kick anyone down. I apologise if you took it that way, its just the way I see it.

I have BPD and am on many meds for it I have severe depression and to me that is harder to deal with.

[Fresia]

Diabetes can be just as difficult to manage as any mental or other illness; there is no predicting levels even with the best of attempts with diet, exercise, and meds to control it. It can be very unmanageable, is painful with injections and with dire consequences. As a caregiver and also working many years in a hospital, there are those that have found management but more that have not; it is just too unpredictable. Sound familiar? It is just as frustrating and debilitating with a significant impact on life as other illnesses.

Anyone here a diabetic and wish it would just take over your life completely so you could be gone?

Actually, I had a friend who chose to ignore his diabetes because he wanted to live a "normal" life. He didn't last long. I have friends who suffer from type 1 or type 2 diabetes and manage to live with it. my friend with type 2 is not doing well but she hangs in there with bad eyesight and painful neuropathy. as for myself, i have been pre-diabetic since birth and it has given me heart disease. i watch what i eat and try to exercise every day. the exercise really, really helps. my exercise consists of walking to work and walking home again. i like it. i get some natural vitamin D from the sunshine. and, it improved my blood readings a lot. the diabetes diet has reduced my reliance on food as a means of fun which is not very easy to deal with. you know, no binging on cookies or cake when feeling blue. i always have a container of nuts handy and deny my cake craving until i break down so that any snack will do and then grab the nuts. the thing is, if you follow the diet you avert / delay the parts of the disease that are really painful. would i permanently give up pasta and potatoes and candy if it meant not getting neuropathy or going blind? you bet i would! except for an occasional chocolate, candy is not a part of my diet. neither are potatoes. pasta, well, i'm trying to eat it in moderation. i guess my point is that preventative medicine works. watching what you are eating to avoid disease leads to not just a healthy body but also a healthier mind that less worry about health issues.

in our society we believe in instant gratification and that dietary freedom means eating what we want, when we want and how much we want regardless of the consequences. what a disease like diabetes teaches us is that these beliefs are not true. real freedom is freedom from debilitating illness. it's not that i mean to be hard on you. i note that your screen name is "trying to be me." please consider that being oneself means accepting who you are. people who are short have no alternative but to accept it. people who have chemical imbalances have to accept their problem in order to help themselves. being diabetic is part of being you and, while it makes life more complex, accepting the disease and effectively treating it will enable you to be and stay a healthy person capable of enjoying what life has to offer. think about it. my diabetic friend f***** is gone. don't give up. living with diabetes is doable.