hi Molly! i am also at the 6 month mark and much better than i was in december. my a1c is the same as yours, no cgm tho, am lusting after one! it would be great to have one but i live in spain and we have socialised medicine here. unless i win the lottery, ill be without a pump and cgm. i shouldnt complain, my gp is excellent and s0 is my nurse, making up for the dinosaur that is my endo....
i wasnt depressed as much as angry for the first couple 0f months. really angry. didnt do very much for me, recognised i was angry and didnt want to be, not very fun to feel that way. i still get the "i cant believe this is my life now" moments while sticking insulin in my bag to go out and have dreams about lows or being forced to eat carbs without insulin, weird stuff!
i did start on lantus and last month switched t0 levemir because the lantus was really painful even 30 minutes later at the injection site. what a difference, i no longer put 0ff the injections. i have to inject 5 times instead 0f 4 but for me its worth it, no pain. i had to up the dose from 2 units a day t0 4.
i miss cereal and mindless grazing and binging on chocolate and thought i would be miserable eating like this but it is what it is, its gotta be done and thats it. i wish diabetics HAD to eat chocolate to live, that would be so much better!
friends and family are really supportive, tho sometimes they might say things that can be annoying. if you havent yet, look up mr mike lawson on youtube. here is a link to one of his videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYQcBgYm9V4. he made me feel much better about this whole load of crap in the first few months. i think i have watched his diabetes police video about 743 times now.
this is a great site! i dont post much but am learning so much from it, the most important being that there is no one way to deal with diabetic situations, that i cant trust what most people in the medical field tell me and that trial and error is 0k!
good luck for the rest of your first year (and beyond!)
