How Does Diabetes Type 1 Affect You Physically, Emotionally, Intellectual and Socially?
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at
6:00 am
Question by sparksfly: How does diabetes type 1 affect you Physically, emotionally, intellectual and socially?
How does type 1 diabetes affect you
Physical:
Intellectual:
Emotional:
Social:
Thank you in advance!
Its for coursework btw
Best answer:
Answer by Kim
The American Diabetes Association website is very helpful:
http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes.jsp
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I have a student who is a diabetes type 1. She look normal in every way to me. She doesn’t look different from the rest of her friends.I did not know she had diabetes until she told me. She is also emotionally and intellectually balanced. Her studies is also o.k. She is also socially balance since all her friends like her.
In my opinion as long as you take the diabetes medicine as instructed by the doctor, there shouldn’t be any problem.
Physical problems come from length of time with diabetes. Being smart is no problem.You!re going to have your sad days and say why me. I never told any one i took insulin but i should have .Good luck C.P
Physically: My thighs hurt from the shot I get at night that stings. Sometimes a shot won’t go in right, or I get a bleeder. My fingers are covered in calluses and sometimes are really painful. Measuring out my food helps me take control of my serving sizes and stops me from eating chips on the couch for an entire day. I won’t be overweight anytime soon.
Intellectually: I had never learned about diabetes before. I thought you got it from eating too much sugar and being fat. I thought you never had a low blood sugar when you had diabetes, and if you did, it was gone. Then, I spent three days in the hospital getting diagnosed. Those days have changed my life forever. I am a lot smarter. I know a lot more about diabetes (everything!).
Emotionally: I cry a lot for everything. I cry for the pain. I cry because I know it won’t ever end. I cry because I know that if it ever does end, it’ll probably end in surgery. I cry because I know I have lost years from my life. I cry because I know if I have this for the rest of my life, my nerves will be less. My kidneys will suffer, my eyes will suffer, my skin will suffer, my extremities will suffer. I cry because it could result in amputation. I cry because I know many others are crying.
Social: I meet other friends with diabetes, sometimes. http://www.tudiabetes.com helps me with that a lot. But sometimes people don’t approach me because of how I might be contagious (which I, and everyone who has diabetes, am not!). People think I am weird, sickly, strange. I am not. I am a normal person with a disease. A hidden disease.
physically: not really too much. i caught my diagnosis very very early so i didn’t really get sick or anything like that. i still play soccer at least once a week and check my numbers before and after and everything seems to be fine. so im not really physically affected too much.
intellectual: I don’t feel im affected intellectual except for the fact that i now know how to really take care of myself. other than that, im still able to do math and chemistry =)
emotional: yeah, there are some days where i wonder why this had to happen. some days i won’t get good numbers and i will be bothered. but i learned to get over that. whats happened has already happened so i just learned to cope. overall i would say im a happy camper.
social: i have not been affected socially at all. i still have all of my friends from before being diagnosed and im still making new friends. i have a very supportive girlfriend who is always able to help me out and things are going well.