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