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Permalink Reply by Chris on August 16, 2011 at 3:46pm

Hi everyone, I am a fairly new Type 2. I was dx on May 31st of this year. Until April of this year I was with the one I thought to be the love of my life. I was with her and her 3 kids for about 6 years. My world, at that time crashed down around me when I learned that she had been cheating on me for the past two years with at least 4 different guys, one actually contacted me on facebook when she broke it off with him. During the break up I found out that she has an STD that she contracted from one of her lovers and gave it to two of the others. I got tested and was clean, very happy because Herpes doesn't go away. By mid May I decided to start dating and gave internet dating a chance. Met someone and we were having a great time. She had been seperated from her husband and father of her children for 3 years. Well he died in an accident and then a week and a half later her father died; she pretty much said she couldn't date anymore. So then recently I started dating someone I knew years ago and I have learned why I never dated her before.
In between alot of bad things have happened, a couple that I am very good friends with had their youngest son drown in a pool and I've had other misfortune this year. I am currently dating because I miss the companionship and really would like to find my match. I am just really surprised with the fact that I am not in a deep depression; between my crap love life, tragities to the people around me and my job messing things up in my life.
Wow that was alot to get off my chest. One good thing in my life is my D is in pretty good control, my first A1C I was 8.6 and got back my 3 month follow up and I am at 6.2. and I have lost 30lbs. since April.

Permalink Reply by Char Berss on August 27, 2011 at 10:00am

Hello-

I am not new to diabetes in the least. I was diagnosed in 1987 at the age of 4 with Type 1, and i've been a Minimed pump user since 2000. Diabetes has always been there but i don't think it has ever been center stage for me. I've dated some, although not recently, and although i was always open and happy to explain my disease and my pump, i don't think it was ever that big of a deal. It was something I had to deal with, not my boyfriends. At least that is how i see it. And i don't think it has stopped anyone from dating me or vice versa.

I think what has been hard is the weight issue. Since my mom passed away in 2006, i went through a major depression and i've been struggling with my weight ever since. And anyone who is Diabetic knows that it is SO HARD to lose weight with this disease. I try to workout just like anyone, and i've been pretty good over the past 5 years. I go through my phases like anyone else where i might stop for a few weeks, feel crappy, and then start back into my routine where I then feel better. Hey, i am only human! :p

In all fairness, i'm not even that bad off- it just feels like i am. My A1c was 7.6 last time- not the best but could be worse. My avg daily totals of insulin are between 45- 55 units a day, most of which are basal rates and not food boluses. But my weigh # sucks. And to anyone i might tell my weight to- they all agree that i don't look like i weigh that much. Maybe I have some good muscles? Who knows. So my thing is this- i feel like no one would date me not because of my diabetes or the lovely pump that makes me Robo-girl, but because of my weight that won't go away.

I've been working with my doctor to try and shed some lbs. I tried Symlin- nothing. Now i'm on Victoza and finally up to the normal dose of 1.8mg. I've lost 8 lbs in the past 3 months (I have no idea where they went) and that was on the 1.2mg dose, so i'm hoping now that i've upped it, i'll see more results. My diet is minimal i think because the Victoza does suppress my appetite. I'm probably not eating enough, but at least i'm not constantly feeding lows? Still going to the gym and working on my system to keep from dropping low. As anyone here knows, that's always a work in progress. What works this week may not work next week. Ah, the joys of a dysfunctional pancreas!

Any whoo, thanks for letting me vent a little!

Permalink Reply by Eric on May 22, 2012 at 3:50am

What's involved in the public relations arena? Is this used mainly for big companies, politicians, etc? Just curious....
Eric?

Permalink Reply by Eric on May 22, 2012 at 8:48pm

Well, I mean, what else can you really say? Everyone has faults and weaknesses, but to see anyone as a lower life form because they're different than you is just ignorant. Diversity is not only essential to our mental maturity it's essential to the human race as an evolutionary species. I guess the thinkers are just on the inside track.
Eric

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