Hi all, I haven’t posted on here at all for the last few years and my mum told me to find a hobby so i’m trying out blogging again.
As you may not know, I was diagnosed with diabetes a year ago and life hasn’t been the same since.
I discovered I had diabetes after a regular normal blood test when the person who took my blood, the school nurse and another nurse all frantically called me asking if i knew i had diabetes so which i responded something along the lines of well apparently I do! My blood sugar levels after that blood test were 3.7 which is Very High!! Your normal levels should be between 1.4 and 1.6!
I was immediately sent to hospital for 10 days and I started taking metformin and slow insulin (14 units then- im at 74 now) and they gave me a captor to put in my arm so i can check my blood sugar whenever i want or need. I quite like having a captor it’s a fun game to see who has one (especially in the summer when nobody’s wearing coats !!) and a lot more people have them than I could have guessed!
After that came a series of test and meetings with the diabetic nurse to find out what type of Diabetes I have (type 1 or 2) and of course i ended up with type 1 which means I’ll be taking insulin my whole life which isn’t great but oh well.
After a year of dealing with slow insulin every night and a big injection of insulin once a week i was introduced to fast insulin which I have to take before every meal (firstly just at breakfast and then every meal 20 units or more depending on my blood sugar levels) and despite all that my levels were still high so i was hospitalized for another week which really helped lower my levels but now i’m home it’s back to being high depending on what i eat!
I always have to think about how what i’m eating will impact my blood sugar and sometimes have to make sacrifices like if everyone is eating chocolate or cakes and my blood sugar is high I’ll have to give it a skip. My mum will read this and say i’m lying because i do eat chocolate but only when my blood sugar is low which is rare.
One thing i learnt in hospital which honestly surprised me is that coke 0 or diet coke will still make your blood sugar rise (less of course than normal coke) because your body doesn’t know the difference between real and fake sugar!
Here’s to hoping my blood sugar is low on christmas day so I can enjoy Christmas dinner without having to worry about my sugar levels all day!! I can hope for a christmas miracle can’t I?!
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