Life has been a bit of a roller coaster since I was forced of my insulin last November (2010) with my emotions yoyoing around all over the place, and getting used to not injecting myself twice a day.
I’ve also pretty much now become allergic to insulin or its additives so am on nothing. It’s been quite a journey because I thought I’d become type 1 and was going to die if I stopped taking the injections, but lo and behold I have discovered that I’m still type 2 and still producing my own insulin!
That was quite a shock but it has given me something to work with – so inbetween the brain cells disappearing and getting peripheral neuropathy I’m not as bad as I thought I would be. My blood sugars are screamingly high but I am able to walk everyday, do yoga once a week and go to my Rock Choir practise and sing and dance – all of which is helping to bring my blood sugars below 30 mm. Actually they are now down to 16-25mms now, but it has been hard work and I do get really fed up with having to think what I’m eating and how much exercise I must do. But it is worth it.
I’ve also been reading books on how to heal/cure diabetes the natural way (not for type 1s) and there are some good sensible books that have given me a lot of food for thought in how high glycaemic our western diet it! Still it does give me a challenge to work with and along with an absolutely brilliant diabetic team of dieticians, diabetic nurses and of course a brilliant diabetic psychologist and filling in diet sheets etc I seem to be slowly getting there. My eyes are still intact as are my kidneys and heart and prayers from my local church are definitely helping.
The interesting thing is that dropping down off a precipice to low blood sugars is not good because apparently that could cause quite bit of damage to the body – so slow it is but we’ll get there – my goal is blood sugar level of 8mm but I have lost weight and my energy is getting better.
What have I learned from this is that there are always people worse of than myself who are battling cancer or other serious diseases and that for me I have a truly fantastic diabetic team who understand that working with allergies is not easy. I’m really thankful that we have and NHS and local to me it appears to be very good. So if you’ve been forced off your insulin through allergy or intolerance don’t give up because there are people out there to help you.
