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