I'm so tired of injections that I've started skipping my insulin

I've had Type 1 since I was a kid and for years I was pretty good about doing what I needed to do. Lately something has changed and I just feel completely done with it.

It's not that I don't understand why I need insulin. I do. I'm just so tired of injections, checking my sugar, thinking about food and having diabetes sitting in the back of my mind all day. Sometimes I look at the injection and I just can't make myself do it.

I've started skipping insulin because of this and I'm scared by how easy it has become to tell myself I'll deal with it later. I haven't told my parents how bad it's gotten because I know they'll worry and I also feel embarrassed that I can't handle something I've been doing for years.

Has anyone else gone through a phase like this? How did you get yourself out of it?

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@ganeshrao4 hr ago

This sounds a lot like diabetes burnout. I went through a horrible stretch with it in my late teens. Every tiny diabetes task suddenly felt like someone asking me to climb a mountain.

Please tell someone though. Skipping insulin with Type 1 can become dangerous quickly. You don't have to solve the whole burnout problem tonight, but you shouldn't be carrying this by yourself.

@avinash913 hr ago

The embarrassing part is that I know it's dangerous. That's why I don't understand why I still keep doing it.