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This may or may not be a repeat of an older post, if so please accept apologies.
In another post from today - when I talked about how frustrating I find the lack of understanding of diabetes in general is, especially in my case T2 - when diagnosis was mentioned, which led me to wonder how other people came to be diagnosed. In my case, it was almost on a whim - I was doing a demanding job as a College Lecturer but found I just seemed to get so tired and have little energy - I really thought this was due to age. However, two of my three adult children have Hashimo's Thyroid disease and my mother also had some thyroid issues in her latter years and I thought it might be an idea to get my thyroid checked - I should mention that until this point I only visited my GP about once a year for annual review on blood pressure. Happily my thyroid was ok, but I was absolutely shocked to be told I had diabetes. As I say, I could easily have carried on thinking my tiredness was due to my age (not that I am that old ) and may never have found I was diabetic until much later. It does make me wonder how long I had been diabetic for though!
In another post from today - when I talked about how frustrating I find the lack of understanding of diabetes in general is, especially in my case T2 - when diagnosis was mentioned, which led me to wonder how other people came to be diagnosed. In my case, it was almost on a whim - I was doing a demanding job as a College Lecturer but found I just seemed to get so tired and have little energy - I really thought this was due to age. However, two of my three adult children have Hashimo's Thyroid disease and my mother also had some thyroid issues in her latter years and I thought it might be an idea to get my thyroid checked - I should mention that until this point I only visited my GP about once a year for annual review on blood pressure. Happily my thyroid was ok, but I was absolutely shocked to be told I had diabetes. As I say, I could easily have carried on thinking my tiredness was due to my age (not that I am that old ) and may never have found I was diabetic until much later. It does make me wonder how long I had been diabetic for though!