For the past 11 years I have been a type 1 diabetic and honestly I think I become more and more sick of it everyday.
It's not fun having your blood glucose spiking really high and dropping really low randomly. Having a high blood sugar makes me feel thirsty, nauseous, cranky, and can sometimes even send me into the hospital depending on how long it remains high. Having a low blood sugar makes me dizzy, I see black spots and start to experience tunnel vision as the room turns black around me, I become shaky, weak, and completely disoriented. Everyday I have to take 5+ needle injections filled with Insulin to survive. I cannot begin to explain the pain that this causes me. The needle hitting the flesh is no way easier now then it was 11 years ago. I still wince and sometimes end up on the floor shaking and cry because of the pain it causes me.
I have had countless amounts of people tell me that I wasn't allowed to have sugar or any type of carbohydrate in general because I was a diabetic. I have been told that diabetes is only for fat people and old people. Oh! and the best one is when people tell me because i'm a diabetic i'm going to die... ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!?!? I honestly don't understand where people get their information or why they think that I don't know my own limitations. As a diabetic I am just like every other person except with an added flaw. Please, for the sake of myself and the rest of the diabetics in the world... if you have questions just ask. We rather explain everything you want to know instead of you just assuming. Besides, having someone listen to our problems helps us diabetics cope with the illness we have...well it at least helps me a little.
It's not fun having your blood glucose spiking really high and dropping really low randomly. Having a high blood sugar makes me feel thirsty, nauseous, cranky, and can sometimes even send me into the hospital depending on how long it remains high. Having a low blood sugar makes me dizzy, I see black spots and start to experience tunnel vision as the room turns black around me, I become shaky, weak, and completely disoriented. Everyday I have to take 5+ needle injections filled with Insulin to survive. I cannot begin to explain the pain that this causes me. The needle hitting the flesh is no way easier now then it was 11 years ago. I still wince and sometimes end up on the floor shaking and cry because of the pain it causes me.
I have had countless amounts of people tell me that I wasn't allowed to have sugar or any type of carbohydrate in general because I was a diabetic. I have been told that diabetes is only for fat people and old people. Oh! and the best one is when people tell me because i'm a diabetic i'm going to die... ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!?!? I honestly don't understand where people get their information or why they think that I don't know my own limitations. As a diabetic I am just like every other person except with an added flaw. Please, for the sake of myself and the rest of the diabetics in the world... if you have questions just ask. We rather explain everything you want to know instead of you just assuming. Besides, having someone listen to our problems helps us diabetics cope with the illness we have...well it at least helps me a little.