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    Temporary loss of T1 following sickness

    Yep no basal. No insulin at all. I ate a ton of cake and no spike. Went for a long walk, and no dip. I appreciate there are unexplained peaks and troughs like what you have mentioned, but I've never wholly 'lost' diabetes before apart from these two times and both happened to coincide with...
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    Temporary loss of T1 following sickness

    Hi, A year ago I caught a bug from my young son which resulted in pretty nasty vomiting and diarrhoea for about a day. For about 48 hours afterwards my T1 diabetes seemed to disappear. I was able to eat what I wanted without taking insulin with no affect on my blood sugar levels. I'd company...
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Are you attending annual retinal screening tests? Hopefully if you do experience any sight deterioration, they can pick up on it early that way. Mine was cancelled back in April due to you know what, but I chased them up and have an appt next week.
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Hi Fawbs, it's actually quite an old post, so I'm not long 2 years into diabetic life now. As rubbish as it is you get used to constantly stabbing yourself don't you!
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Hi Smallbrit. I'm glad your genetics route is progressing. I had a similar experience of either scepticism or professionals having not heard of it. Sorry to hear about your deafness. It's such a rubbish thing to live with. I've found it so much easier working from home so any work interactions...
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    What does the vitamin supplements help towards? So that's good news that you're moving towards being pre diabetic isn't it? I don't think that's an option for me as I'm pretty much type 1 in the way mine is treated. Worrying what you said before about loss of sight. I feel like mine has...
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Hi, good luck with your appointment and sorry to hear about your plight. It's rubbish, especially at this age. I'm just on insulin. I did try out glycazide at one point but my levels shot up. I'm now on hearing aids in both ears as my right ear had deteriorated too but seems to be a few years...
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    Anyone else get muscle twitching?

    I periodically get eye lid twitching but I think that's more to do with stress. Quite recently I had twitching in the left pec which lasted a morning. Not sure if it was connected to my diabetes.
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Hi Smallbrit, It's odd. I explored so many avenues with the deafness and tinnitus, including spending big bucks on a private consultant and no one could pinpoint why it was happening in my late 20s. But then when the diabetes came along, I did ask both my Diabetes Doctor and my Audiologist if...
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Thanks Debandez :)
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Hi Guzzler, thanks for the reply. I searched MIDD it (as a condition) on here when I first heard of it and it was surprising to see something that explained s much to me. I'm not too clued up on menieres but tinnitus is horrible. Hearing aids with masking devices do work eventually but the...
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    6 months today since been diagnosed

    Hi everyone, I've not posted on here before. I joined a few months back and have read the odd post to get advice here and there. But I thought I'd break the silence as today it's 6 months since I was first diagnosed with diabetes. I'm 36 years old. Last year I asked my GP for a blood test as I...