Diabetes Control In Work

I started my job a while back and I think I have to comment on this because there have been some implications on my diabetes that I honestly say I did not see coming.


Firstly, I have to highlight the importance of breaks. I was working 6 hour shifts with no break, so I wasn't eating, wasn't injecting properly, wasn't getting a drink, and it near killed me. I became so tired and lethargic, my concentration suffered and it actually took me to almost faint on the shop floor before they realised how important it was going to be for me to take a break.


Also, there is an importance around not letting your work stress you too much. On Sunday I was astronomically stressed and found that my blood sugars were all over the place and as a result I had to have (yet another) day off college on Monday to recover from Sunday night being up sorting them out, basically I was exhausted.


Speaking of exhaustion, that's another thing to watch out for. I am totally past it at the minute, I am past everything, and I have gotten myself into such a vicious cycle because I'm stressed with the amount of work that I am doing alongside college, which is making it so I can't sleep but I am already overtired, because I am so tired I am having to miss days of college which is stressing me because I'm missing days and it's an awful cycle and I can't keep in control of it. And I am suffering, I'll be honest I really really am.


I don't think it is just a diabetes thing, but I think that I have to take that into consideration aswell because it would be silly of me to ignore the fact that it is having an effect on my diabetes. 


I think the point of this post was to basically serve as a warning to people with diabetes starting out new jobs and having other things on top, a job is fantastic, but if it infringes your health you aren't going to be working to the best of your ability.


Keep Smiling :)
Love, Tutti-Frutti.
xxx