Jade
Shock of the new
Hi, I'm 19 and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 15 months ago, one week after my 18th birthday.
How I found out was, I wasn't feeling great and so I went to the doctors and he told me I had glandular fever, then when I told him about how thirsty I'd been getting, he took my blood sugars and they were in the high 20s. He told me there was a very high chance it was diabeties but sent me to hospital to get checked over. While getting bloods taken, I then fainted and was kept in hospital for a total of two horrible weeks.
It can't be diabetes
At first I was so shocked, I kept telling myself it wasn't diabetes and it was due to how many sugary drinks and sweets I'd had that day and week. I couldn't understand.
Then they confirmed it and I just didn't know what to do. I cried for a long time until I had nothing left to cry and then I realised that, well, it was a part of me now and so I had to be sensible and just deal with it.
Emotionally and physically hard
I will admit it's been very hard, emotionally and physically. Sometimes I find myself just crying at the thought of having this for the rest of my life and although I've been able to keep my sugars under control, I have very bad self control when it comes to snacking on chocolate and crisps. It can be so hard some days and I think what makes it harder is knowing that, yes you can have a treat but no, you can't just go buy junk food whenever you feel like it.
Staying level headed
I guess it will get easier as time goes on and I definitely don't want to have any complications when I'm older so I've tried to promise myself to eat a lot more sensibly and cut out the junk, more or less completely, except on treat days, as its just not worth it!
If you get diagnosed with diabetes, don't feel that it will ruin everything because what I've learnt is that there are ways of making it work for you!
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