MoyaAnne

Ignored my oncoming diabetes and slipped further into a horrendous eating style ( often nothing at all till after 4pm and then healthy stuff followed by mountains of chocolate biscuits and cakes
Love fruit n veg, all lentils and pulses, hardly eat red meat and don’t like rice or pasta. Can’t stand fast food.
My problem was my job.
Teaching means you don’t have time to eat. Lunch hour was nothing more than a bag of crisps, a sandwich if I was lucky and I could just go all day on nothing but water.
Then the evening binge.
I always attended appointments when they sent them. I didn’t get one for a year and nine months.
Coincidentally I became unwell just ten days before my review was due. I really knew I wasn’t well sweating but no infection , nausea that was crippling and obviously couldn’t eat.
I hate to battle the surgery to get my apt brought fed.
All. He is bloods done.
Next day the call said I was 91 on my HbA1c and they called me to come for a urine dipstick testing for ketones.
Sent me to hosp as the test was too high to measure.
Started metformin the next day, been forcing myself to eat three times a day. Have to test constantly.
Absolute wake up call
Haven’t touched sugar in any way shape or form. Have to keep carbs very very low. Levels are decreasing but slowly and still up and down.
I’d never heard of the risk of Ketoacidosis and I was on my way to a real crisis.
Decided I wanted to live. Shocked at my own ignorance, arrogance and stupidity.
So that’s my boring story.