It's the pits. Anyone else on that insulin life?

Nope, although like 75% of the people in my family have it

Why is there a thread for this

Thank GOD, no

Yep

Because I'm a grooooown woman and I can do whatever I want

Sis share your struggle with me Having one of those days

One of my best friends has diabetes.
We were poisoned on our vacation in Spain at a bar (they put something in our beers)
He almost died because of the diabetes... Scary night

My sister has had type 1 diabetes for nearly 11 years now. It can be scary sometimes, she can fall really unwell. She's had it for so long now though it's under control for the most part. There is an odd slip up though where she takes a bad hypo which can be pretty scary.

My family has a long line of people who have it and high blood pressure, I'm probably gonna get it to.

My sweettooth is never satisfied.

I am sorry you have it, it is really the pits

so many secondary diseases you can get from it if you don't care of yourself so
its really bad!

Ugh like every one of my uncles but not my parents luckily.

My mom has type 1 (I think from when you're born with it or whatever) and it's always looked like hell to me.

She's got it under control though and only has problems with it every once and awhile.

It sucks hard. Having to worry about your blood sugar all the time. Going from high to low constantly, struggling to keep it stable. Not being able to work out without it dropping to 30. Worrying about losing your eye site or a foot when you get older. Nobody knowing anything about type 1 and constantly saying stupid things like "can you eat that?". Omg I could go on forever.

My Dad has it.

I don't want to get it either so this year I really need to start eating better.

If you take care of yourself that won't happen. Things like that rarely happen anymore to people with good glucose ranges.

My god I hate all the stupid people that think they know but don't!

And yeah the lows suck I just had one, that's what inspired this thread.

I have pretty good control (7.0 a1c), but I'm still horrified of the chances of stuff like that happening. One time my toes were numb for a week and I was convinced I had neuropathy.

Lows do suck. I had a period where I would wake up every night from a really low sugar.

That's a good a1c! You should be fine! My uncle has had it for years and he doesn't take care of himself at all and he's fine, so I try not to even think about those scary things since I live a healthy lifestyle.

And you probably were taking too much insulin at bedtime/dinner whenever. When I notice patterns like that I always e-mail my endo asking for help with better doses. Same thing if I'm running too high. When I get any number over like 130 I ask myself if I'm a bad person, which is every day

I am really scared because it runs in both sides of the family. My late grand-mother had it and she was morbidly obese and if you want an example of how big she was, she was bigger than Oprah. My Uncle has it too and he has type 2 and has to have injections.

We had our house re-done and the lady who's family business was in-charge has diabetes type 2. She's losing her eye sight in one eye.

I'm worried about getting gangrene, loss of eye-sight, etc and being alone when I'm older.