Diabetes fear

I want to make a reflection of a living voice of my own experience and/or feeling.

I have been with diabetes for more than 30 years, I have always tried to have correct blood glucose as well as hemoglobin which is currently 6.2.

When one is a teenager, he lacks fear and his actions go more with recklessness.

Now I remember the times I have left home without glucometer, without something to take in case of hypoglycemia and even insulin in hyperglycemia car.

When one is being fulfilled, he acquires an experience and security in a general aspect.

However, I am experiencing the opposite, over the years I am acquiring more fears around diabetes.

In addition, my feeling and perception is that diabetes is gradually doing with me.

Already visits to the ophthalmologist are uphill despite "you have very little retinopathy and will not go further."But one is aware that he is there and we will see if at any time he decides or not going to anymore.

Some consultations or situations that other users post are also adding to that fear, it is more I have realized that I look some kind of neuropathy not being aware of it so far and I say Ere was not aware because a few days ago I had consult with the endocrine and I did not even commented.

But the reality is that from time to time I notice a puncture on a finger of the foot as if a pin nailed to me, sometimes I have had to barefoot and massage it.

Before a post from here, I was investigating and reading about the theme of neuropathy, given that unnoticed possibility for my part and fits it.

This adds to that fear, which as you have less capacities for age if I stable only I will be able to be able to.

The truth is that this uncertainties did not raise them and thought that the premise was as far as possible and the day to day carrying a correct blood glucose and hemoglobin, in order to continue without complications.

But thought and what one is structured, is far from the real reality of this disease.

On some occasion, I have already commented that diabetes makes its own, but when one is deprived and restricted so many things for not altering or influencing the stable control of blood glucose, it is proposed if all this makes or has made sense, since it is to deprive you of living what other people, especially when you see that the result is the same and the diabetes also gives the face.

Today there is a lot of mental health and its importance is being given in children's aspects, but that importance in people with certain diseases such as diabetes should also be given.

Because today, no endocrine has put its approach in this patient section and I am sure that the percentage is very high.

I do not want to extend more in this personal reflection, in which I do not think it is helpful to anyone and with which I only sought to be able to release it because the knot is getting more and more.Thanks and forgive the billet.

Hi @luvi,

Thank you really for opening and sharing something so deep and sincere.What you tell is much more common than it seems, although many times it is not talk about: the fear of what can come with diabetes over the years, uncertainty about complications and the mental weight that crawls after so much time living with it.

Your testimony highlights something fundamental: diabetes is not just glycemia and hemoglobins, it is also how it affects us emotionally and mentally.That "knot" we are talking about we have felt more than one, and sometimes sharing it here is already a huge step, because it reminds us that we are not alone.

I agree with you that mental health should be part of medical consultations, because fear, anxiety or feeling of tiredness are as real as any value in an analysis.Maybe talking to your health team or even with a psychologist specialized in chronic diseases could give you tools to release part of that load.

What you have written here helps, believe me.Help because others when reading you will feel reflected and less alone, and because you open a necessary conversation.Diabetes, with its lights and shadows, also gets better when we support each other.

A big hug and thanks for trusting the forum to release that knot 💙

@Uvi do not overwhelm.If you need help with this load, there are professionals who can help you.

Do not have regrets for diabetes, each one does what they can, and you don't have to become obsessed with what may come.Of course, you must be at peace with yourself and calm because you have done what you could.But it is inevitable that we are not well controlled 100% of the time.We are human and not machines.

Neuropathies concern me, not for diabetes, but as a side effect of chemotherapy.They have already told me that if they come out, I will not recover.

It seems that there are studies that, through the use of cold gloves and socks, neuropathies are prevented.This has been told by the oncologist.In case it helps you.

Anyway, diabetes is disgusting, but cancer is not much better.

LuVi said:
@Uvi said:

I want to make a reflection of a living voice of my own experience and/or feeling.

I have been with diabetes for more than 30 years, I have always tried to have correct blood glucose as well as hemoglobin which is currently 6.2.

When one is a teenager, he lacks fear and his actions go more with recklessness.

Now I remember the times I have left home without glucometer, without something to take in case of hypoglycemia and even insulin in hyperglycemia car.

When one is being fulfilled, he acquires an experience and security in a general aspect.

However, I am experiencing the opposite, over the years I am acquiring more fears around diabetes.

In addition, my feeling and perception is that diabetes is gradually doing with me.

Already visits to the ophthalmologist are uphill despite "you have very little retinopathy and will not go further."But one is aware that he is there and we will see if at any time he decides or not going to anymore.

Some consultations or situations that other users post are also adding to that fear, it is more I have realized that I look some kind of neuropathy not being aware of it so far and I say Ere was not aware because a few days ago I had consult with the endocrine and I did not even commented.

But the reality is that from time to time I notice a puncture on a finger of the foot as if a pin nailed to me, sometimes I have had to barefoot and massage it.

Before a post from here, I was investigating and reading about the theme of neuropathy, given that unnoticed possibility for my part and fits it.

This adds to that fear, which as you have less capacities for age if I stable only I will be able to be able to.

The truth is that this uncertainties did not raise them and thought that the premise was as far as possible and the day to day carrying a correct blood glucose and hemoglobin, in order to continue without complications.

But thought and what one is structured, is far from the real reality of this disease.

On some occasion, I have already commented that diabetes makes its own, but when one is deprived and restricted so many things for not altering or influencing the stable control of blood glucose, it is proposed if all this makes or has made sense, since it is to deprive you of living what other people, especially when you see that the result is the same and the diabetes also gives the face.

Today there is a lot of mental health and its importance is being given in children's aspects, but that importance in people with certain diseases such as diabetes should also be given.

Because today, no endocrine has put its approach in this patient section and I am sure that the percentage is very high.

I do not want to extend more in this personal reflection, in which I do not think it is helpful to anyone and with which I only sought to be able to release it because the knot is getting more and more.Thanks and forgive the billet.

Hello!

For my part, nothing to forgive, more would be missing!I gladly read you.Thanks to Leados, I learn to manage this disease.

About diabetes I am null, I could not help anyone yet.But of chronic disease I know a lot and I could tell you that overwhelming is of no use.If you look over -minded for mental health as soon as you leave it, don't wait to be in a deep well.Although you can think that Nah, total was a downturn day, I control it or a thousand other excuses that in the end are just not to feel or do not see us as weak or complaints.Many times the reason says one thing but we are not able to believe it, we are burning and when we realize it is already more difficult to get out of the spiral. Chronic diseases can bring consequences and one of them is mental illness (depression, anxiety ...).The wear of the body exists in all, chronic and healthy sick.Although the sick have certain ballots, the healthy do not get rid.We usually think that what happens to us is the worst and the reality is that any disease is a p ** ada, if it is chronic, worse.I had a disease in which I had the aspiration out of each episode.He evolved and the aspiration became live without pain even if it was a single day.The only solution was to remove almost all the pancreas knowing that it would be diabetic.Right now I can say that welcome is diabetes, sure, per fixto, go, that in a time I am fed up with it 😅🙈.With this I do not intend to say that mine is the worst then you do not complain, quite the opposite, I want to say that diseases wear, very much, very much.When mine ceased to be a risk, doctors told me to leave it that way, that it no longer died.And I didn't want ... or I couldn't ... there were days that I preferred to die still "better" than before.Each one lives what touches him as he can and when he does not carry it well, for whatever, that's what mental health is ... and friends, and communities like this forum ... but let's not go from mental health, can make a difference.

I also think that taking care of yourself is worth it, even if we say look at the care I had and this happens to me.In rural areas such as where I live we all know cases of people who did not take care of themselves and the consequences are devastating.Although there are 4 that were never taken care of and are like oak, that's not normal.Giving as valid that Fulanito did not take care of it and see how well it is to transform the reality based on biases.

That others expose their fears to me too, I see that I am not just me, that it is not that it is apprehensive or anything like that, they are normal fears.Thanks for counting it.

I don't know if all this tocho will be worth something, I feel so extend 🤦🏻‍♀️, I just wanted to expose my point of view in case someone (myself in the future) serves something.

Much encouragement and thanks for being there, you personally help me a lot.Greetings!!

LuVi said: