Overview of how spring affects our Community members

When we think of spring, what comes to mind is better weather. Many of us see it as a season of new beginnings and new resolutions, especially those relating to better lifestyle choices. Spring brings to mind increased levels of activity in all aspects of our lives. Listen to the thoughts of some of our healthshare diabetes community members and how spring affects them and their diabetes. What am I looking forward to? My birthday and my husband's birthday are both in spring so we usually do something nice to celebrate like go away for the weekend or something. I think it's important to share your concerns and experiences with people whether related to diabetes or again to diet or physical activity and it's good to share my experiences with other people and also to hear back from them because this is how we learn, this is how we improve as we go forward. So one of the things I think is really interesting is the more exercise I do the less insulin I need to take and that kind of moves forward over a number of days so if I have a week where I do loads and loads of exercise, by the end of the week, I'm taking much less insulin and that goes on for two or three days afterwards, even if I don't do exercise. I think, and in my mind, that feels like a good thing if I need to take less insulin. And yeah, without any shadow of a doubt, doing exercise is good for you, and I enjoy it. And so I think that's really important. And then what that links in with is that generally, the more exercise I do is I find a really good way of relieving stress and taking time out of all of the other things that I'm thinking about and doing at the same time and so I guess that's kind of part of the same thing. What worries me is that you end up in the same routine as you were in 2022 or 2021 and the potential inability that the cycle isn't broken can be a source of worry and concern. The Healthshare Diabetes Community helps you to gather information from a wide variety of sources. By knowing your condition from a wide-angled viewpoint, we hope you'll be better able to understand those symptoms. You can't quite put your finger on, but know there's something not quite right and be confident to talk about them. Maybe some people have issues with their eyes, some kidney problems, some people have heart problems and sometimes you don't... I wouldn't know if I have a problem with heart problem where to approach even if I go to my doctor. Doctors, I'm sorry to say this, but doctors do not have all the... they just want to see the patient in five minutes and out and I'll be at that time heart patient, kidney patients or whatever patients need a proper care and say okay you will be seen by this, this, this. So maybe this health care sections would be able to provide the right information so as diabetes you know that you will reduce your complication and you will have the quality of life more. I think for me during spring at least as I mentioned before there's a lot of non-diabetes specific challenges that come up in spring that impact on healthcare and for me when I speak to my healthcare professions what I'm looking for is not advice on how to make things perfect but how to make things manageable. For instance if you're traveling a lot even if it's you know just on work and you're only going a couple of hours but you're not eating at your normal times and you're not staying in your normal places, it's understanding well how can that impact on your medication regime, how can you try and dampen that impact, let alone when it comes to time zones and things like that. If you're doing more exercise, what's the knock-on effects, how can you try and dampen those even if you can't fully get around them. Obviously we all want to aim for the best we can in our healthcare but that can't be to the detriment of our wider lives in in its entirety as an environmental hazard, nothing else. So input on a pragmatic basis from healthcare professionals I think is really important. Or even the ability just to join a community and share in your experiences. So go ahead and join us so that we can together develop a vibrant, engaged, enthusiastic community which instills good quality information, a confident information which can touch, address and amend many future lives. You have heard how some of our community members are planning for spring and the adjustments that they will be making to face the next few months. Having a long term medical condition like diabetes affects so much of our lives. Do you need answers on how to deal with them or maybe you have tips and tricks to share with others. Join our conversation at healthshare.com and tell us how you plan to handle things this spring.