ive had type one diabetes for nearly 6 years now! im on five injections a day and its really starting to get me down!
i cryed like a baby for an hour last night, feeling lost and very alone!
the doctors seem to not help or care!
i missed my last appointment and have had to wait over 6months to see them again. my appointment is coming up soon and im ready to quite this injection ■■■■ and get a pump!!! but im so damn scared! i dont want something permanently attached to my body but i want this diabetes under control and there seems to be no one answer???
My son just started on the Animus Ping on 3-21-11 and he loves it. It does require a lot of logging, and testing but he loves it. I wish you the best of luck with a pump - you can do it.
Look at it like you might look at glasses…if you couldn’t see would you reject a device you could wear which would radically improve your sight and make you safer? I’m using the omnipod, and while I have issues with it in some respects it is a wonder. Doesn’t inhibit my wardrobe or activity (I wear it along my breast inside my bra). I have had a couple problems but nohing major. I am with you on the doctor thing…very difficult to get great help and support.
Maybe you should try to find a doctor who is more available. It sounds like perhaps you could use someone to talk to. I have been where you are, and it’s a dark place. Having diabetes can make you feel so alone and different. Being a part of the DOC can really help those feelings though. I LOVE my pump and I couldn’t imagine ever doing shots again. hang in there. We are all here for you.
I agree with Lauren. Maybe instead of a doctor, you could find a cool diabetes center that has a nurse practitioner. They tend to be a bit more available and helpful…like they’ll spend more than 45 seconds in your room.
I don’t pump…and I inject every time I eat plus my morning basal insulin. So I totally get you. It wears you down. I hope the TuDiabetes community helps you in the way that it’s totally helped me.
Nothing I can say…((((((((((HUGZZZZZZ))))))))))
Unfortunately, doctors aren’t much help. Have you read Using Insulin by John Walsh or Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner? Sometimes you can do better on your own and just use your doctor to write the scripts. If you really do want to get a pump, Pumping Insulin by John Walsh would be a good book to get.
Pumping isn’t a magic cure to get your BS under control - you still have to put the work into it. It can help with some things, but you also have a new set of problems to deal wtih. I decided to go back to MDI because my control was better with MDI although I miss being able to sleep in with the pump!
I am sorry that you are going through such a bad patch. Unfortunately it is something we all go through.
I suggest that you change doctors, and also go to your general practitioner and ask for some treatment for depression. There is no stigma attached. It does seem to go hand in hand with diabetes.
And feel free to let of steam here. We all understand.
Sending big hugs and warm thoughts across the sea.
I’m a type 2 on multiple daily injections of insulin, too. Diabetes sucks. That’s a given. However, as others have suggested, reading good books and taking charge of my own diabetes (becoming less and less dependent on doctors every day) has helped me SO MUCH that I wish I’d done it years ago. I was afraid to take charge, but now I wouldn’t go back to my former level of ignorance for a million dollars. I was so anxious, so stressed, so fearful of the future. Now I’m a righteous diabetes warrior and proud of it. Of course, I have many more things to learn – it’s a never-ending learning curve – but it’s worth the effort to learn what I need to know to keep myself safe. It really boils down to three basic issues: basal, bolus and correction factor. Throw in some knowledge about sick days strategies, reduced-carb eating, exercise strategies and managing chronic depression (mental hygiene) and the problems dwindle down to a dull roar.
I know you can do it!!!