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Balancing highs and lows Serin Edwards speaks of managing his life as a Type-1 diabetic
Living with diabetes Emily Ireland The idea of âstabbingâ yourself with needles multiple times each day can scare many people. But for Mastertonâs Serin Edwards, and many others living with diabetes, if he doesnât do it, â[he] would dieâ. Serin, a technician at the Masterton TRC Toyota dealership, was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes at the age of 19. Now 31, he has accepted his condition as ânormal lifeâ, not letting it get in the way of work or leisure. Thinking back to his diagnosis more than a decade ago, Serin said the main symptom was his relentless fatigue which he would try to counteract by drinking Powerade before he was diagnosed. Little did he know that because of his diabetes, this was making things much worse.
Serin Edwards, of Masterton.
âI ďŹrst started noticing it at work â I would become quite lethargic and couldnât do anything.â Before long, his bosses started to notice something was wrong and asked Serin
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what was going on. âBut in the end, it was my mother who made me go to the doctor. âI came home from work sick because I was just drinking so much
Powerade, which has a lot of sugar in them â it made things even worse. âI went to the doctor and they said I needed to go to the hospital. âThey didnât take me
up in an ambulance, but I was pretty much admitted straight away, and I was hooked to a machine with an IV that pumped me full of what I needed.â He said his blood sugar
level was âin the 40s â it should be between four and seven, so that was quite highâ. Living with diabetes is a big âbalancing actâ, according to Serin. âYour pancreas is what produces your insulin. âMine doesnât work and thatâs why Iâm a diabetic now. âLack of insulin makes your blood sugar levels go high, and too much insulin makes it go low.â When Serinâs blood sugar level goes too low, he starts shaking. âThe adrenaline kicks in and my body is just trying to keep itself alive. âEssentially if that happens you have to take sugar or carbohydrates that keep your blood sugar level up there. âThe other way is you can go hyperglycaemic which is when your blood sugar level is too high. âYou end up being quite lethargic and you tend to need to go to the toilet a lot.â Upon diagnosis, Serin began using insulin pen needles and was injecting himself four to ďŹve times daily. Continued on page 3
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