Useful insights for new diagnosis Type 1 Diabetics.

I think there are two things I would probably say, and I apologize in advance if I sound a bit platitudinous. The first one is fear is a wonderful short-term motivator. When you get diabetes, you get given the list of things that might happen to you, not just terms of you might have a hypo and then you know not not be functioning you know tomorrow but in terms if you don't control it properly you know in 15 years time this can go wrong and that can go wrong and so on and so forth. As I said that that might stop you on day one from going and eating you know three bags of sweets and not taking any insulin but it's not a great motivator in the long term. I think one of the one of the hidden benefits of diabetes to put it that way is it essentially reinforces a need to do things that we should all be doing anyway in terms of controlling your diet, trying to keep things in balance in terms of sleeping enough, trying to keep regular hours in terms of the sorts of things you do, doing enough exercise, these sorts of things. It's really another impetus to live the sort of life that I think if we all look at it in balance, we probably want to live. That doesn't mean we all do it perfectly any day. I mean, you know, I've been doing this for nearly 30 years and I and I still get it wrong every now and then. And if you talk to certain people, they'd say I get it wrong more often than I get it right. But it's an ongoing journey. It's not an illness where it gets cured tomorrow. You've got to learn to live with it. And that means doing your best to try and live within those principles. But I find if you are focusing on, you know, very, very detailed minutiae things from day one, it just becomes overwhelming. You've got to take it one day at a time, appreciate that this is part of your life, is not your whole life. You need to have, you know, there's no point, you know, if we all wanted to have perfect diabetes control, we'd sit at home all day, get on a treadmill once a day, eat, you know, lettuce and do nothing else. And frankly, that sounds terrible. So you've got to live in the reality of it, do your best with it. And if you're struggling, as I said before, go and try and find some help. The level of help that's out there now compared to 10 years ago is enormous. It doesn't mean there's an easy solution, but if nothing else, knowing that other people struggle with the same things I find is quite comforting.