| Do you know someone that has just been | | | | next few years I would experience some |
| diagnosed with diabetes? Here's the | | | | difficult doctors advice, one of which told |
| experiences of one teenager and how they | | | | me that I would become ill if I didn't sort |
| learned to cope with being diabetic, using an | | | | out my sugar levels. This is because of one |
| insulin pump and so much more - that teenager | | | | thing that we would never have counted upon - |
| is me!You'd have thought that having had | | | | with the freedom that is given by an insulin |
| diabetes for almost 8 years I would have | | | | pump, the less you feel restricted, the less |
| gotten to a complete and utter control, but | | | | you feel like you have diabetes, and |
| the fact is that I haven't! I have found it | | | | therefore the lazier you get. It seemed to be |
| really very difficult to control my sugar | | | | a slippery slope down (or I should say up as |
| levels, and even harder over the last year, | | | | my blood sugar levels were rising!) into |
| my first year of university.I was diagnosed | | | | poorer health. The thing is the worse your |
| with diabetes at age 11, two weeks into my | | | | levels become the harder it is to get them |
| first year of secondary school. I was put | | | | back to normal again, because your body gets |
| onto 2 injections a day, which seemed to suit | | | | used to all the extra sugar. I would love to |
| me fine at the time. (Of course at 11 there | | | | blame lack of proper support from my local |
| weren't really any hormones and there was a | | | | medical authorities, but really it all comes |
| strict routine!) But after two years of 2 | | | | down to how much effort you put in to make |
| injections and increasingly poor health my | | | | you feel 100%.Anyway, so I am currently at |
| mother decided that we needed to find a more | | | | the stage of working out exactly what it is |
| suitable option for me. She found out about | | | | that I need to do in my life currently to |
| Minimed via the internet, and after some | | | | make things work for me, but that is an |
| serious research and trials with our local | | | | entirely different, and I need to go and |
| health authorities I was given an insulin | | | | check my blood sugar level.Remember, you can |
| pump. I was used to it after a week, and | | | | live with diabetes and enjoy your life. |
| seemed to know exactly what to do.Over the | | | | |