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<blockquote data-quote="type_1_girl" data-source="post: 911937" data-attributes="member: 198327"><p>Felt generally unwell for a long time. </p><p></p><p>Around end February noticed that my eyes were blurry sometimes and that I couldn't always read signs on foot/in car. But it came and went. Assumed as I was 27 and still didn't wear glasses/contact lenses at all that my time was up and would need to go down that route, but was determined to put it off for a while as I had perfectly good vision days as well.</p><p></p><p>At Easter time on a trip to Spain I vividly remember feeling awful and having to get up every half an hour the whole night long to go to the toilet after a day spent grazing on too many pick n mix sweets and interesting Spanish cakes. Saying to my partner that I felt really bad and being told to shut up as I had turned into such a hypochondriac and it was so boring.</p><p></p><p>Was really depressed and emotional in general and constantly arguing with my mother, who similar to my partner told me I was horrible to be around and to snap out of it pronto.</p><p></p><p>By June/July was very, very tired and craving food like crazy. Was an effort to get out of bed/off chair and I just wanted to sleep all day. Only motivated to move from chair at work to go to the bakery opposite and buy and eat bags of cakes and pastries.....which for some reason I noticed were not causing me to put on weight - not normal for me! Was falling asleep after meals. Put all of this down to end of school year (was working in schools at the time) and needing my holiday.</p><p></p><p>I also noticed that the reactive hypoglycaemia symptoms I had always had suddenly weren't appearing any more. Felt like I could exercise for ever when I went to the gym, for example, rather than reaching a point where my blood sugar felt empty and like I needed to stop to eat. Assumed I was making some kind of breakthrough with my fitness!</p><p></p><p>What initially took me to the GP around end of July was constant urine infections. They gave me antibiotics immediately but then started hounding me on my voice mail to come back in once the results of the other tests they had run were available. Again, I put it off and off until I was on leave for the summer in August and never suspected there was something really wrong. By this time, I had noticed that part of my hand was often numb when I woke up in the morning (assumed just pins and needles) and it was taking longer and longer for it to clear through the day. Come August GP told me, by way of a voicemail message, that I was diabetic and "not to worry as I would just have to take a little tablet and there would be a cure soon anyway". So I started taking my little tablet and watched my blood sugars remain in the 20s and heading up towards 30s with ketones in urine. DSN at surgery said she couldn't understand why the GP would think I was type 2 and referred me to the hospital. Went on holiday mid August to a hot place and got bitten alive by flies for the first time ever as they were clearly getting high from my sugary blood! End of August I was sitting in the diabetes clinic at the hospital hearing that I was indeed type 1, and that, given my timeline of symptoms, probably had been for a good 6 months or so. Very lucky I didn't get DKA, and to this day amazed that I managed normal life for so long before being diagnosed!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="type_1_girl, post: 911937, member: 198327"] Felt generally unwell for a long time. Around end February noticed that my eyes were blurry sometimes and that I couldn't always read signs on foot/in car. But it came and went. Assumed as I was 27 and still didn't wear glasses/contact lenses at all that my time was up and would need to go down that route, but was determined to put it off for a while as I had perfectly good vision days as well. At Easter time on a trip to Spain I vividly remember feeling awful and having to get up every half an hour the whole night long to go to the toilet after a day spent grazing on too many pick n mix sweets and interesting Spanish cakes. Saying to my partner that I felt really bad and being told to shut up as I had turned into such a hypochondriac and it was so boring. Was really depressed and emotional in general and constantly arguing with my mother, who similar to my partner told me I was horrible to be around and to snap out of it pronto. By June/July was very, very tired and craving food like crazy. Was an effort to get out of bed/off chair and I just wanted to sleep all day. Only motivated to move from chair at work to go to the bakery opposite and buy and eat bags of cakes and pastries.....which for some reason I noticed were not causing me to put on weight - not normal for me! Was falling asleep after meals. Put all of this down to end of school year (was working in schools at the time) and needing my holiday. I also noticed that the reactive hypoglycaemia symptoms I had always had suddenly weren't appearing any more. Felt like I could exercise for ever when I went to the gym, for example, rather than reaching a point where my blood sugar felt empty and like I needed to stop to eat. Assumed I was making some kind of breakthrough with my fitness! What initially took me to the GP around end of July was constant urine infections. They gave me antibiotics immediately but then started hounding me on my voice mail to come back in once the results of the other tests they had run were available. Again, I put it off and off until I was on leave for the summer in August and never suspected there was something really wrong. By this time, I had noticed that part of my hand was often numb when I woke up in the morning (assumed just pins and needles) and it was taking longer and longer for it to clear through the day. Come August GP told me, by way of a voicemail message, that I was diabetic and "not to worry as I would just have to take a little tablet and there would be a cure soon anyway". So I started taking my little tablet and watched my blood sugars remain in the 20s and heading up towards 30s with ketones in urine. DSN at surgery said she couldn't understand why the GP would think I was type 2 and referred me to the hospital. Went on holiday mid August to a hot place and got bitten alive by flies for the first time ever as they were clearly getting high from my sugary blood! End of August I was sitting in the diabetes clinic at the hospital hearing that I was indeed type 1, and that, given my timeline of symptoms, probably had been for a good 6 months or so. Very lucky I didn't get DKA, and to this day amazed that I managed normal life for so long before being diagnosed! [/QUOTE]
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