Doctors, Nurses and Needles.

Well, this week I think i have probably spent more time in the doctors or nurses office then anywhere else. 

Finally got my Aviva Expert meter up and running, with all the carb input and everything. I must say its pretty fantastic. Calculates correction doses, can input any illnesses or exercise done. Making diabetes that little bit easier. My sugars on the other hand seem to be all over the place. One minute they will be low, then the next they will sky rocket for no reason. Stresses me out abit, but slowly getting them abit more under control then what they have been lately. 

Then had an appointment at the hospital. Let the breakdown commence. After been in there 5minutes, i was in tears. Think the realization of everything is finally getting to me. I need to get this all under control. In relation to getting a pump, hopefully by my next appointment (4months away) i will be able to get one. Dr said i need to get my sugars under better control and lower my HbA1c (currently 140... yes, i know, extreamly high!!) and then I should (hopefully) be able to get a pump :)

Seeing the doctor put things into perspective for me. I need to control my diabetes, and not let it control me. Decided its time to get fit too so the gym is the way forward i think :) fitness classes too, always a good call :) only thing is, after exercising, my sugars seem to go high. Any one know why? I though if anything, that they would go low and possibly send me hypo. Only they do the opposite. Hmmmm.... must ask my DSN about that next time i see her. 

As for now, aims are to lower HbA1c and maintain stable sugars. Lets see how well it all goes :) ....<3

Stress......

So the past week has been stressful to say the least!
Exams, injury, work. Everything just builds up.

Spending days in your room revising for exams is not fun, not beneficial and definitely not good for my health. Sitting around with lots of books that i have little interest in just added to my stress levels. But.....now i only have one exam left (on Wednesday, lets hope I do okay!!!) yay!! Then i can go home for the summer and have little stress :) I've never really been good at exams, but I do try. I just simply don't enjoy been stuck in my room for the entire week trying to cram everything in my head. Next week I might try going to Starbucks or Costa Coffee, revise there. Get me out of the house.

And injury wise? Well, me been me, I'm naturally very clumsy. I can easily walk into doors, tables....anything!! So I'm prone to clumsiness. I blame it on been a blond! Sunday night, was going downstairs to get a drink. Now, the stairs in my house are very steep. See where I'm going with this? Yup, I fell down the stairs. But not just a couple of stairs, oh no. The entire flight of stairs!! Major major back pain, badly injured my foot and pretty sure i might of punched myself in the eye (bit of a black eye). Good start to the week? Definitely not! So, for the past week, ive been on multiple daily doses of ibuprofen. Try to minimise the pain. Anyone else uber clumsy? Or just me?!

My BG contol this week has been okay. They have been fluxuating alot though, but then again they usually do. However, i have had a few hypos, which im not usually used to getting so was a bit of a shock when i got the symptoms. The worrying thing though was the fact that the first hypo that i had in ages was throughout the night. I took my BG level before i went to sleep (it was at 6.2, which i thought would be fine) but then i woke up a few hours later, around 3 o'clock, shaking and sweating. Took my BG levels again, 2.9. so yeah, was slightly worrying. Not quite sure why they dropped, but they did. Maybe I had just taken too much insulin after tea? Anyway, a quick sugary drink and i was fine. although, it did take me a while to get back to sleep.

Decided I'm going to join the gym next week. Get fit for summer. Will also get me out of the house so I have something to do. Maybe join a class as well. Boxercise? Zumba? Yoga? Any suggestions?

Time to go. Peace <3

First Blog :)

First blog. Lets see how this goes...


So, I'm Aimee. 20years old. Type 1 Diabetic. Student studying psychology. you would think that studying psychology I would be able to understand the working of my own mind; but no. ha!


On a daily basis I struggle with my diabetes. In a big way. I don't like dealing with the finger pricking, the injections or the having to count every carb I eat. So the majority of the time, I dont deal with it. I simply pretend its not there; I will miss checking my BG levels before I eat, I will miss taking my insulin. Anything to just pretend that it isnt there, that im not a diabetic. 


Im the only one in my family (inc. grandparents, cousins etc) that is a diabetic, so its difficult to talk to them about it as they dont quite understand the stress it puts me under. On September 26th 2009, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes after been admitted into hospital. Leading up to my diagnosis, I was extramly ill. I had come back from a holiday with friends from Kavos in late August when I started getting ill. I was constantly drinking (i could easily drink a litre of water in 5 minutes) and constantly craving sugar. I would sleep with bottles of water next to me so that when i woke up during the night, knowing i would need a drink, that they were there. I was constantly going to the loo too, like, all the time. It was a nightmare! I would also fall asleep sometimes at college because I was that tired! My illness got to the point where I was really thin and couldnt eat or drink without been sick, so my mum decided to take me to the GP. Now, this GP was no help at all. Absolute rubbish! They wanted me to come back in 3 days for a blood test where I would then have to wait another week for the results!!! Anyway, within them 3 days I got alot worse, to the point where my mum took me to A&E. within about 5 minutes, I was diagosed with type 1 diabetes. Coping wise? At first I was okay with it, it was something new! But my mum? She was a wreck! I comforted my mum instead. I think at first it hit her more then it did me. 


Over the next 4 days, I was in hospital while they got my sugars under control and informed me with all the information they could on diabetes. Then I was out, and my life with diabetes began. That was when I was 17. The months that followed my diagnosis were fine. My BG levels were under control and my insulin injections were scheduled and I had control over things, probably because I was in a routine. 


However, 10 months later, I was hospitalised for DKA (Diabetic Ketoacidosis). I had lost control of my diabetes, rejected it pretty much and just stopped giving myself insulin, only gave the insulin when my BG levels were off the scale. 


Since my diagnosis, I have been in hospital with DKA a total of 6 times. Thats 6 admitions to the hospital in just 2 and a half years, with my last admission been less than a month ago. I have trouble controlling my diabetes, I have trouble accepting it. Any other diabetics like this? 


Today, my BG levels have been high. Not too high that they are off the scale, but high enough to be classed as hyper. But I guess hyper is better than been hypo, right?


Signing off now <3