I've wanted to make a thread talking about this for a while but I've never known where to begin it's quite a sensitive topic for most people who suffer because of it, but I guess the point of the thread is do you know of anyone with diabetes in your life and how much do you understand about it? I myself was diagnosed at the age of 6 which the same day my grandma's dog that was my favorite named Sissy died so it was just the worst day it might be the worst day of my life to this day but it's hard to be sure on that. After a year of having it I was given the responsibility to start doing all my shots and then within a few months I started doing most of my carb counting so I've been handling my diabetes pretty much alone for 11 years. As you can probably imagine it was a lot to take on from that young age but in some weird way I don't hate having diabetes and I likely wouldn't take the cure if there was one because I don't wanna get rid of my connection to everyone at camp because for 9 years I went to a diabetic camp and it means everything to me maybe not as much it did but it still means quite a bit to me it was my home in my heart as I hated my home life. Someday at camp one year they were doing a learning session and they talked about something called diabetic burnout and I for the first time felt alone at camp because I can't honestly say I ever went through diabetic burnout and they said it was alright to go through and not take care of yourself every once in a while and I just couldn't believe they would say that was okay. Since then I think I've gone through something close but it was more so due to other general depression I didn't feel like stabbing myself with a needle. I'll never forget one time I was told I would never be so low that I would read low on my testing meter and be awake and then when it happened the state of panic I felt of omg I'm going to die which thankfully there was a bag of m&ms so I ate the entire thing I've never been so tired. I guess this post kind of turned into me ranting sorry about that.

You've got such a positive outlook considering all that you've struggled through. A lot of kids and teens go through life feeling invincible and unstoppable. For you it's probably the oppositive but I bet it's helped you appreciate things better than most people your age.

My Mom I believe has type 2 diabetes but I don't think she has it that bad.

I'm shocked I never replied when David took time to read me talking all about diabetes but if you ever see this David it was pretty meaningful that you read through all that when I do tend to ramble on when I start talking about this stupid thing I've been stuck with for 13 years. xD

Anywho I came back to this thread with a different purpose I'm asking a question I doubt anyone on vizzed can shed any light on for me but hey I might as well try and search any path where I might find information right? I've been diabetic 13 years and only just this last year I've started to have some worrying new low symptoms I've never had in the past one being that when I go low it becomes unbelievable difficult to think like it takes every ounce of energy I can to manage to remember that I'm low and need to eat it's really scary and bad and recently I had a night where this happened where the harder I was trying to clear my mind to be able to think after eating it seemed like it made me start to pass out so I ate enough cookies where I knew I would be fine and then just accepted that I was gonna pass out. The other new symptom is now I sometimes get so weak I can't stand up I was playing smash with my brother and I fell out of my chair and couldn't get up and I didn't realize I was low I was honestly confused as to why I couldn't stand up cause I didn't feel low until I checked and was 35 or so it took about 20 minutes after eating till I was able to walk again. I could continue mentioning more things with this all but I'll just leave it at this for now to see if anyone responds with any ways to prevent this kind of low symptom or anything that might help.