I need ADVICE

[curly8888]

I am very depressed. I am going on 6 months of finding out I have Type 1 Diabetes. I don't need  any more issues in my life. I am 38 years old and I take enough shots and medicine for my Rheumatoid Arthritis. Lately I have neglected to take any insulin. I know this is bad but I could care less. I don't let anyone know and I try to control my sugar levels with what I eat. My question to anyone out there I have alot to live for my husband, and five children whom I love more than life itself. but I can't be bothered with shot after shot after shot. I know this is not good for my health. What can I do??????????????  I am not used to having to worry about what I eat and when and how many carbs are in what I eat.  Help Me  Please.....................

[escat]

Taking care of your diabetes IS very difficult but it's definitely something to pay attention to. Work hard with the injections so that you can prove to your insurance that they should cover an insulin pump for you. I have had type 1 diabetes for 18 years. I was diagnosed at 17 months. I dealt with shots until I was 13. I know they're a HUGE inconvenience but anything you can do to get an insulin pump is worth it. It makes life so much easier. We all have our bad days but the truth is, at 38, you have alot of life ahead of you and there are so many complications if you don't take care of this. As for carb counting, it will come naturally soon. Just keep working on it. Every day is a struggle but it's a fight for your life which is worth alot of struggling.

[teenagediabetic]

I'm 16 and I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes just after my 12th birthday so I have had 4 years . I absolutley feell the same but all the time I get stressed and take it out on my mum I hate it . Recently I havnt really bin doing my insulin because of stress but I know I have to live. I have good days and bad days . I hope you feel better soon !!!!!

[meniere135]

My heart goes out to you.  Two autoimmune disease at the same time - that's hard!  5 kids and a husband!  Wow!  Never a dull moment at your house!  I only have 3 kids and the **** hits the fan constantly here.  Anyone reading this post will completely understand your depression.  I just looked up the Atkins diet and type 1 diabetes.  It won't do the job - you will still need insulin shots.  The diet might decrease your reliance to some extent, but not completely, which would mean blood sugar checks to make sure levels are being controlled.   You'd have to talk with a doctor to see if maybe one meal was without carbs, would you be able to skip one shot.  I do believe protein also requires a small amount of insulin to be released - but I don't know how much.  I've heard of insulin pumps being implanted in some diabetics - maybe check into that with your doctor and see what the scoop is.    

I had Meniere's disease for several years - sensitivity to the slightest noise, loud planes landing in my ears 24/7, muffling, hearing loss (which made the ear noise even louder), nausea, dizziness.  I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown.  As far as I was concerned "God, please take me if I have to live like this!"  I was shaking internally and externally.  The only thing that kept me moving was knowing I had to get the kids going each day and doing what I needed to do for them.  But other than that, I didn't want to live anymore.  In my head, there was no other option - I wanted to die.  Obviuosly I didn't die and I'm ok now.  I found out food was setting of my attacks.  So the attacks stopped but now I'm left with noise in my ears and hearing loss.  It took me TEN years to get used to the noise - now I don't think about it hardly ever.  If you had told me I'd get used to the noise, I wouldn't have believed you for a minute.  I'm back to enjoying life (except for the part where I have three kids losing their hair starting at 8 years old and will be almost completely bald by the time they are 22).  So there's always something for all of us.  But I understand the depression, the hopelessness, no longer looking forward to the future and just wishing I could be little again.  If you need to have a good cry, have a good cry!  Have a panic attack or whatever else you need to have.  But go back to taking care of yourself.  Give yourself the shots to prevent more problems.  Not only will you suffer more if you don't, but your family will too.  If your husband or child had the disease, you would never want them to do what you are doing.
I completely understand the rebellion, but logic must win out in this situation.  Pull yourself together and take care of yourself.  You will get used to this eventually.  You might not like it, but it will become secondary if your life.  Right now it's the big elephant in the room and you can't stop thinking about it and how much you hate it.  I hope this helps.  Maybe join a diabetes 1 group - you'll need people to understand what you're going through.  Be brave for your kids.  Let them see mom pull through this so when life throws them a seven, they will remember how you reacted and that will give them the strength to handle their situations.  Leave a message if you need to talk.