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Hello everyone,
I am wondering, if people are happy to share, what your story is for being diagnosed?
Here is mine.
I had felt a little poorly on and off for a while having kidney issues and ask doctors to test me for diabetes which was refused. About 8 months later I collapsed in a hotel room and woke up about 2 hours later. No one found me and my parents can be a tad dramatic, plus they didn't believe anything was wrong with me, so i decided not to tell them. Luckily my doctors was near my school (i was 15), so i skipped school in the mornings to go get tests done. It took 6 months to get a referral but i was so happy to not only be close to an answer but to hopefully soon feel better. By this point I had gone (i discovered ) from 90kgs to 55kg, if i was not where i was meant to be like school i was a sleep all the time (which happened in school especially in my mock exams). I was diagnosed on 26th May 2001, the best day ever and i celebrate each year being a live. I do this as two months after i was diagnosed a medical professional announced to my family that i roughly had a bout 1/2 months to live if i had not got diagnosed. My family were very upset, with the diagnoses and being told their daughter could have died. It makes me smile as when i look back on it i remember my doctor saying unfortunately you have type one diabetes, my parents burst into hysterics, the doctor spend most of the session consoling them. At one point though he turned to me and said," you can be upset you know". I said, "nah i am happy, what's next?"
For me for a long time i felt like i was dying so when i got my first injection it felt amazing to feel a little better. By this point i was as white as a piece of paper, and slowly i saw colour come back.
I know I sound positive about it but my for me my diabetes is a part of me whether i like it or not, in away it saved me, gave me life back and gave me opportunities i may not have had if i was not diagnosed. Since I was diagnosed i have spent my life giving back with fundraisers, supporting child with needle use and supporting adults. I am sure i will continue with this till my last breathe because diabetes doesn't mean the end of things, in away its just a path we may not have expected to happen by my that path is definitely eventful in bad and good ways like life.
Would love to hear your stories.
I am wondering, if people are happy to share, what your story is for being diagnosed?
Here is mine.
I had felt a little poorly on and off for a while having kidney issues and ask doctors to test me for diabetes which was refused. About 8 months later I collapsed in a hotel room and woke up about 2 hours later. No one found me and my parents can be a tad dramatic, plus they didn't believe anything was wrong with me, so i decided not to tell them. Luckily my doctors was near my school (i was 15), so i skipped school in the mornings to go get tests done. It took 6 months to get a referral but i was so happy to not only be close to an answer but to hopefully soon feel better. By this point I had gone (i discovered ) from 90kgs to 55kg, if i was not where i was meant to be like school i was a sleep all the time (which happened in school especially in my mock exams). I was diagnosed on 26th May 2001, the best day ever and i celebrate each year being a live. I do this as two months after i was diagnosed a medical professional announced to my family that i roughly had a bout 1/2 months to live if i had not got diagnosed. My family were very upset, with the diagnoses and being told their daughter could have died. It makes me smile as when i look back on it i remember my doctor saying unfortunately you have type one diabetes, my parents burst into hysterics, the doctor spend most of the session consoling them. At one point though he turned to me and said," you can be upset you know". I said, "nah i am happy, what's next?"
For me for a long time i felt like i was dying so when i got my first injection it felt amazing to feel a little better. By this point i was as white as a piece of paper, and slowly i saw colour come back.
I know I sound positive about it but my for me my diabetes is a part of me whether i like it or not, in away it saved me, gave me life back and gave me opportunities i may not have had if i was not diagnosed. Since I was diagnosed i have spent my life giving back with fundraisers, supporting child with needle use and supporting adults. I am sure i will continue with this till my last breathe because diabetes doesn't mean the end of things, in away its just a path we may not have expected to happen by my that path is definitely eventful in bad and good ways like life.
Would love to hear your stories.