Comments on: “What does it feel like when you’re high?”

By: Heidi-Jane

Heidi-Jane — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:45:09 +0000

Just reading this a few months late…

I often feel like I have a back ache…sore head…thirsty…tired…grumpy with everyone and everything…heavy.

After almost 18years with T1 I hate the highs more than the lows.

By: Velocette

Velocette — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:39:00 +0000

Damn it is so good that I got given this site address. I have had T1 for 16 years now since I was 6 years old and I have felt so alone because there were no others I could really talk to about diabetes without being dissed or runaway from as the kids at school thought I had AIDS.

I am so desensitised from hi’s as I regularly run high but the main symptom I get is a craving for milk (was always what you would call a strange or Dangerous Diabetic though)

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:59:19 +0000

Sorry one more thing Kiri, please scan and send me a copy of the Sunday News article if you get time

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:58:39 +0000

Welcome, Kiri – and congratulations on the pregnancy! I have listed all the posts I did about pregnancy here: http://www.beingdiabetic.co.nz/2009-12-20/pregnancy-with-type-1-diabetes-the-summary/.

Cheers
Nic

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:09:02 +0000

Welcome to the site Kiri!

By: Kiri

Kiri — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:55:08 +0000

Im new to this site and I was so excited to find it…but been a T1 diabetic since I was 13..the greatest age when your starting high school and the hormones are really going NUTS!!

Alana, it took them 7 weeks to diagnose me with diabetes, yet I had every single symptom of it you can get. Weight loss, huge thirst, peeing all the time, vometing, loss of appetite, porridge blood, and after they diagnosed me I had blurry vision for a week but it passed. My sugars were at 46mmol when they found ou And thingsdo get better. Good thing us diabetics are tough wee cookies.

And Nic, I am 9 weeks pregnant so any tips would be awesome!!!!

Oh and everyone, my family have an article running in the Sunday News Newspaper this weekend with regards to diabetic services having been deleted here in Queenstown. Should be a good read and any support is fantastic. We cannot let diabetics fall through the health system cracks!!!

~ Kiri

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:04:54 +0000

I second Aaron and Alison’s comments, Alana… welcome to our little club (shame you had to have your pancreas putt out on you to gain membership). I wish you all the very best in getting up to speed and I hope it will just become a part of your overall life soon. We’re always happy to help out over here at BeingDiabetic so just drop me a line or head to the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/beingdiabetic) if you want to discuss anything in particular.

Cheers
Nic

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:00:16 +0000

Hi Alana, Glad you found this blog. You must still be in shock, I can remember it so clearly. I was diagnosed 10 years ago, at 32 years old. I didn’t think it happened to adults, I thought I was a strong healthy person. After diagnosis I tried very hard to accept it until my diabetes nurse educator said I suppose you keep thinking ‘why me’ and I told her I didn’t. She told me I had to grieve for my health, it was an important part of the process. That was it – I started crying and cried for the next couple of weeks.
I remember the thirst, tiredness, blurry eyes and weight loss – always wanted to lose a bit of weight and then suddenly I was too skinny!
Now its harder to tell when I’m high unless I’m really really high.
I hope you have the support you need – there’s always more support here. Just getting the daily emails is encouraging.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:46:44 +0000

Alana – that sounds very familar. Even after quite some time I can well remember the feeling before I was diagnosed.

Welcome to our community and never hesitate to touch base with us to get some advice, get through the day or have a laugh!

- Aaron

By: Alana

Alana — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:48:11 +0000

I’ve only found out I’m diabetic as of 5 days ago.. My Hypers, which apparently I’ve been experiencing for close to a month are craziness! My eyesight has been like looking through the bottom of a glass bottle, burning pains in my stomach, bad hearing, ridiculously thirsty – I was drinking up to 8 litres of fluids a day (I’m not exaggerating either), what I call cotton tongue (which is dry mouth beyond dry even after drinking). Not to mention the Grumps… I yelled at a fly the other day because it was buzzing around my windscreen.. Craziness!