The journey of a diabetic student

For students with diabetes, they are not only worried about academic hurdles such as college entrance examinations, college graduation, and postgraduate entrance examinations, but they are also distracted by many things. I hope this "experienced person"'s experience will be of some help to you.

I am 28 years old and was diagnosed with diabetes when I was a junior in college. At that time, the typical symptoms of diabetes appeared in me one after another. "I have lost 40 pounds in the past two months. I feel tired and weak all day long. I drink two large bottles of water every day and always want to urinate." As soon as I finished speaking, the doctor said to me: "You I have diabetes and a urinary tract infection. How long have I had it?" I asked the doctor, "Can my disease get better soon? Can I get better on my own without taking antibiotics?"

The doctor told me that many young people newly diagnosed with diabetes are now hospitalized for insulin treatment. I told him, "I have to go back to school, and I have to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination." I really didn't want to fall behind academically, so I insisted on going back to school. The doctor finally agreed, but he asked me to keep in touch with him by phone.

Of course, even though I went back to school, I couldn't concentrate on preparing for the exam. As I looked at the textbook and notes, all I could think about was the next insulin injection. My life is like a countdown from morning to noon and then to night until bed. It seems that the meaning of life is to inject insulin on time.

After I gradually got used to injecting insulin, I thought the most difficult part was over. But I thought wrong. Injection is actually the simplest part. You only need to inject insulin four times a day on time. It is indeed not easy to change the lifestyle such as diet and exercise and stick to it, especially for a young man like me who is just 20 years old. Despite this, after a few months, I overcame the difficulties that diabetics have to go through such as checking my blood sugar every day, counting carbohydrates before each meal, adjusting and injecting insulin, etc.

What happens next?

I have been diabetic for eight years. I once firmly believed that I would never give in to diabetes, but I finally made a compromise. I have been trying to make my diabetes treatment as simple and routine as changing the insulin pen. But in the end, I found that the treatment of diabetes will never be as simple as imagined, because even if your blood sugar was well controlled last week, it does not mean that your blood sugar will be well controlled this week. In many cases, Affects your blood sugar control.

Suffering from diabetes has made me think more and plan for the future. Although the future is unpredictable, I can feel that I am working hard every day to turn my plans into reality. If I regard my life as a story, although I still can't see the ending clearly, I can control the factors that affect the ending. It is every meal, every insulin injection, every blood sugar monitoring and other details that jointly determine the development of this story.

That’s not what my doctor told me the day I was diagnosed with diabetes. I used to think that overcoming diabetes was like overcoming geometry problems in high school. It was not very difficult. Now I realize that treating diabetes is not like riding a bicycle. Once you learn how to ride a bicycle, you will never forget how to ride it. The condition of diabetes may change at any time, so don’t try to conquer it completely. However, I have decided to view my condition correctly and do my daily "homework" seriously.