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<blockquote data-quote="ann34+" data-source="post: 1618887" data-attributes="member: 94348"><p>Yes, ok now, thanks - it was nearly 40 years ago!! </p><p></p><p>i'm glad things not too bad at moment. If your onset was sudden then hopefully you maybe you wont have the same exhaustion problems. I was, i am told, probably a very slow onset type 1, with symptoms from exactly your age now, not picked up by the GP for some years - there were no test strips then on the GP desk. I was told that it might take as long as i had had the first symptoms to eventual diagnosis in the coma to fully feel well. Like you i had what i thought was a stomach bug and was found comatose a few hours later by a friend, and, luckily for me - though i have no memory of it at all - ambulances were much quicker to arrive then they are now. </p><p></p><p>Main problem in the first years - which you will not have - was scarcity of strips - they were not on prescription but i lived near a hospital that gave some supplies at appointments. Most type 1s i met did not have any at all, so i was lucky - they only had urine tests.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ann34+, post: 1618887, member: 94348"] Yes, ok now, thanks - it was nearly 40 years ago!! i'm glad things not too bad at moment. If your onset was sudden then hopefully you maybe you wont have the same exhaustion problems. I was, i am told, probably a very slow onset type 1, with symptoms from exactly your age now, not picked up by the GP for some years - there were no test strips then on the GP desk. I was told that it might take as long as i had had the first symptoms to eventual diagnosis in the coma to fully feel well. Like you i had what i thought was a stomach bug and was found comatose a few hours later by a friend, and, luckily for me - though i have no memory of it at all - ambulances were much quicker to arrive then they are now. Main problem in the first years - which you will not have - was scarcity of strips - they were not on prescription but i lived near a hospital that gave some supplies at appointments. Most type 1s i met did not have any at all, so i was lucky - they only had urine tests. [/QUOTE]
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