Soooo anyone out there play tennis? I absolutely love it. I also play softball and soccer but I used to play baseball before I tore my ACL and lost my scholarship. Anyway just wondering what kinds of sports you guys love to play or watch for that matter. I play tennis three to four days a week, mostly with my girlfriend and some of my friends. I actually picked up a tennis racket for the first time last summer and have since gone a little crazy with it. But as my doc says it’s great exercise and it’s fun to get my friends back on the court for eating all that ice cream in front of me!
As for my particular case I was diagnosed the day after christmas in 2007. My parents couldn’t wake me up and thought I was dead at first. I woke up in the hospital and my dr. told me I had type one, he’s been my dr. since he graduted from med school and established his practice, he cried with me when he told me and spent over two hours with me eplaining everything that was going to change with my life. He is a great dr. and I’ve been blessed to have him to treat me, I’ve read some of the horror stories from the site about bad dr.'s and I can truly say I’m super-lucky to have mine!
My blood sugar upon admission with DKA was 867 and my A1c was 17.3 and he told me that this was the highest one he’d ever seen in someone who was still alive. It was a huge shock and kind of a relief because I had been feeling seriously ill for about eight months. I had lost over 160 lbs. (from 290 to 130) and was barely able to walk because of the weakness and numbness associated with peripheral neuropathy.
I have been on lantus and humalog for over a year now and have managed to gain back the fifty pounds I was underweight (i’m six-one and i come from a family of stocky guys). I have also been taking Lyrica for the nerve damage and it has been working wonders–hence the obsession with tennis, now my main concern is the aching elbow I have developed in my serving arm 
It has been a very difficult process because nobody on either side of my family hs ever had any form of diabetes. So the questions and the constant monitoring from my immediate family does drive me a little nuts. I have one diabetic friend here at school and she has been my support system for a couple of years. My insurance company dropped me about eight months after my diagnosis and since then I’ve had alot of trouble making ends meet trying to pay for all of my office visits and medications every month. I’m a full-time student so I don’t exactly make much money and living in a college town is incredibly expensive!
I’m pretty psyched to find this website I had no idea there was such an awesome community out here for all of us 
So, all of you out there struggling with this - keep your head up!
Ryan,
I wanted to respond to your post because we are in a similuar boat. No one in my Family has DIabetes and I played sports, football in college, etc…
It’s hard being in a boat where no one knows how it feels, the highs and lows. It’s so great you found this site. I am sure you have found a ton of value here. If your a big time sports guy, here is some advice… watch out for highs… It totally messes with your performance and having you going insane why you can’t hit a return! I used to have my sugars run a little high before playing/exercising so I wouldn’t run low, but it was worse for me to not perform at my best.
Good luck with all your feats!
Bill
PS your Diagnosed Date for Diabetes is my Birthday, and that sucks too! LOL