Oh come on… Only 19 pages in a year… Things have certainly changed since then! Then it was Montagues and the Capulets , Hatfields - McCoys Now it is Type1 or Type 2 diabetics. PATHETIC!
Hi. I’m new here, but this subject concerns me greatly. I have proved to myself that diet and exercise will help me keep my levels down, and wish to follow this path until such time it no longer works. However, I get no support from my “team” for this whatsoever. Unless I start insulin injections, they don’t want to know me. I suffer from depression and this bullying, intimidating and threatening is making it worse. Because I get really low after a visit to the doctor, I then binge eat to satisfy a death wish (I am not suicidal as such but do have a death wish). I do have arthritis in the hips and possibly neuropathy, though no one will bother to help me find out. I do walk daily, and after a good walk have to take strong pain killers to get me through to the next day. However, the only interest the doctors have is that I am diabetic. Any symptoms of any other condition are not worth checking, and this too makes me feel worthless and helpless.
I am not looking for sympathy, just support. I am on Metformin and Diamicron. I need help to find out what foods I can eat safely. The dietician simply showed me the size portion of pizza and spaghetti I should eat. I know I can’t eat those things without sending my levels sky high.
Also, I am borderline poverty and can get my fresh stuff, but just enough to last only one week out of two. Then I resort to bread and cheap cereals. I need to know what foods are suitable for breakfast (I tend to skip breakfast out of pure fear). Snack foods are also a problem as I don’t get a lot of fruit.
Hope I haven’t upset anyone with this post. I am just so sad and losing the will to fight anymore.
Don’t give up…there are so many people here to help you.!! And very kind and supportive as well.
Thank you Robyn. I’m not really giving up, just losing incentive, I think.
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I’ll help you and you can help me 
You have all the support I can give Karen… :o) We are all here rooting for you! GO KAREN GO KAREN GO KAREN!! You can do it! Don’t u give up for Nothing!! You hear me? NOTHING!
Thanks Craig. Looking forward to some good advice.
Thanks again Robyn. Not sure how I can help you. This may be a bit one sided, I fear.
Never one-sided…I came on here needing sanity…and I have met some of the most supportive and wonderful people, who have become very loved by me. I also need help…we all do here!
I blame my dog. She doesn’t seem to mind
rick phillips
I think a lot of doctors are pushing too many pills on type 2s. I am a type two and I admit I caused the problems myself when I became a software consultant. I worked 80 hours a week, ate junk, never exercised but got a lot of money. Some people became internet millionaires, I became a type 2 diabetic. I was right in the middle of the Internet startup world. They added sofas for us to nap in, added kitchens that looked like mini marts full of all the free food, candy, and sodas you could drink and starbucks coffee with the thousands of calories on demand.
So I think the IT world had some part in creating some type 2s but some of us went willingly.
Lets come back to today. When I took the bull by the horns and started working out like a mad man, the meds that I was taking started messing up my joints and muscles. I was running 4 miles in the morning and biking 10 miles at night until I got knee problems and a pulled calf muscle. When I pulled the calf muscle is when I realized that the meds had to go and I should try a different diabetes management technique. I think the physical problems were directly linked to the meds. I had to stop taking pills by myself because my endo would not help me to work on getting rid of the meds and work on a more natural approach. So you do have to sometimes put yourself in the right track. It is not easy but the longest journey starts with one step and along the way you have to remember why you took the first step so you can reach the goal.
I was always very thin when I was young. Six pregnancies later and menopause caused me to be overweight. I was always active and exercised and ate relatively healthy ( lots of whole grains products). I decided to get serious took 60 pounds off and turned into an exercise machine. 2 years later I was diagnosed with diabetes. When I told my friens they would say “No Way” you can be diabetic. But I was. I then realised all those whole grain cereals, breads, pasta and Kashi Bars were my downfall.
Yep those carbs are nasty from whole grains and breads. I started checking readings and realized that the subway diet is not the best since its too much bread. I am working on cutting back on the bread more veggies less bread for me
Being a newly diagnosed diabetic i found the portioning of blame quite interesting. I am five feet three inches tall, under eight stones and smaller than a size zero. I take regular exercise (horse riding, golf and swimming) and have never been obese in my life.
My crime was developing leukaemia and having to take drugs that seemingly damaged my pancreatic system which has recently given up the ghost. I don’t really care what other people did to get this disease. The same can be said for most diseases - if you hadn’t done this then you would be ok. Are any of us perfect?
Why do people always try to aportion blame - I think that is wrong! If insurance companies don’t get you one way then they will get you in another way!!
wow, how great for you, and hope for continued success. I hope that no time in your future your diabetes comes back to haunt you, because as you stated here it would only be your fault. good luck
Please tell me Craig how its my fault that I have Dieabetes I’m 37 years have a extemely healthy diet. I was a professional cage fighter thats (MMA) till injury side lined me I still work out and train but I didn’t ask for this and don’t want it but i have it now i deal so as to say should insurance companies pay for my ignorance well I don’t feel I had anything to do with this.
If I hear another person from a “study” telling me that “I caused” it, I’m going to scream! I’m no longer “grey”…but black, grey or pink…I DID NOT CAUSE IT! Didn’t cause my migraines, or asthma either…I’m wired for it. Never been anything other than tall and thin…never smoked…never did anything that would cause migraines either (whatever that would be).
Steer away from those “new found studies”, all they do is bring you down and make you angry…or go for the old “if only”…
move on!
linda
Sorry…that last comment was from me, venting…my husband hadn’t signed out when I entered my comment. …and by the way, sorry for freaking out!
I think we carry a genetic predisposition to Diabetes, and our lifestyles can keep us from developing it. For me, alcohol in my 20s, fried food in my 30s, white rice and potatoes in my 40s. If I’d drank water instead of fire-water, eaten raw instead of fried, and made better food choices, I don’t think the disease would have shown itself; at least, no so early.
Guys I know that this thread is months and years old. That said I am have a hellva a time dealing with this. I know all the arguments about lifestyle. I too lead a lifestyle that was not right. I cann’t go back. No matter how badly I want to I can’t go back. I have taken steps to go forward. You know eating better, more active losing weight. I am stuck I have stopped losing weight. My BG is stuck at 125 in the morning and 100 to 150 two hours after eating. I am frustrated angry and just plain mad. So I don’t care if it was my fault or not that doesn’t matter to me any more. The real question is WHERE IN THE HELL is the HOPE that things will get better. Everytime my feet hurt of eyes blur or head hurts what do I do to make it better or is it too late. Was my previous life style a death wish or death sentence. Because I am sick of this I want to get better but nothing is working. Sorry I guess I just needed to vent.