{"id":615520,"date":"2009-12-28T23:48:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47062-new-community-but-have.html"},"modified":"2009-12-28T23:48:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:48:04","slug":"new-to-the-community-but-have-been-a-diabetic-for-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/615520","title":{"rendered":"New to the community but have been a diabetic for 14 years."},"content":{"rendered":"
I just wanted to actually say hi. I’m a 23 year old guy that has been living with diabetes for 14 years. This is actually the first time I have ever discussed my Diabetes with anyone due to me being stubborn\/ ashamed of my Diabetes.<\/p>\n

Please bare with me as this may be the first time I have been able to vent about my diabetes to others.<\/p>\n

Where do I start for 14 years i have struggled with coming to terms with my Diabetes. For the first 6 years since I was diagnosed I have had immaculate control due to my dad being on top with everything. After that I have managed to stay on track with my Glucose readings and have been very lucky with them.<\/p>\n

To be honest I am quite scatter brained right now and I don’t even know where to start. I am surprised that I had actually signed up to a forum to talk to others. <\/p>\n

Although I have managed to keep good control of my Diabetes it has taken a major emotional toll on me mentally. I now suffer from major anxiety issues due to Diabetes. I became and acrophobiac and had to drop out of high school. I was always an out going person, a jock and was headed in the right direction of life. It still hit me hard I lost friends, but managed to battle back and fully reverse the acrophobia and finish high school. I am now in my final year of college finishing architecture technology. I have a great girlfriend and family that support me, but yeah i still have not come to terms with my diabetes. I take care of it with insulin and glucose management but yet I am neglecting it by not fully accepting yet.<\/p>\n

I feel lost and afraid with my future, I am nervous about complications due to diabetes and handling them, I’m just to put it in simple words scared to death. I know alot of others feel this way but it is the first time i have expressed myself to others. <\/p>\n

I am not really sure where i went with all of this. I guess it’s more so mangled thoughts and shock. I apologize to everyone if my post is out of whack and not straight forward.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just wanted to actually say hi. I’m a 23 year old guy that has been living with diabetes for 14 years. This is actually the first time I have ever discussed my Diabetes with anyone due to me being stubborn\/ ashamed of my Diabetes. Please bare with me as this may be the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2A7K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}