diagnosis

Hello everyone, I’m feeling quite on my own with how I’m feeling and I’m just hoping that somebody out there has similar experiences. I’ve recently suddenly started feeling very unwell, I went to the doctor who ordered blood tests and everything was okay. But I havnt been feeling myself (no...

For about two-three years I have been experiencing some concerning symptoms. Mainly, not long after I have a meal I start feeling extremely tired, drowsy, and as if the blood in my body is burning (very uncomfortable). I tested my glucose last year two times. First time it tested 5.6 and the...

Hi all, I was diagnosed with T1D near the start of the pandemic at the age of 32. At the time, there was no testing available, so I'll never know whether it was the Rona that triggered my onset. I've been interested in keeping up with the research on the subject though - there appears to still...

I had to do a blood test for suspected diabetes type 2, and it came back that I did have it, but very borderline. I can't remember what the actual numbers were, but let's say if the threshold for being diabetic was 40, then I was 40.1. Only just over. I was told this on a call with a diabetic...

Hi everyone I hope you’re all well. Over the past couple of months I have been working on producing a video for newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics where myself and 4 other fellow diabetics talk about our experience with type 1 diabetes and the achievements we have gained whilst managing the...

I was diagnosed in 1997 with type 1 diabetes as I had the classic symptoms associated with it. My HBA1C has always been high, around 10 and all the professionals do not understand why my Sugars do not decrease. I weigh 10 stone height 6 foot 5. I am on levemir for meals and fiasp 24 and 20...

I'm taking lantus and byetta while I wait for confirmation of my LADA diagnosis...My question is, does Byetta do anything to help type 1.5??? Or am I wasting my time and money trying to manage post meal blood sugar with it? My diabetes team seems pretty convinced I've got LADA not type 2, as...

How do you know there is a helicopter pilot in the room ? They'll tell you, one of the oldest adages in aviation. No prizes for guessing that my diagnosis in Nov 2020 came with some potentially career limiting issues as I lost my medical which left me unable to fly. The diagnosis was a bit of...

Hi everyone. First of all I want to apologize if I'm not posting in the right section. I'm currently 21 years old, very skinny, (60kg with 1.77m), no one in my family has diabetes as far as I know. I also want to mention the last couple months I've trashed my body, smoking a lot, not eating...

How did you get diagnosed with T1 diabetes?

Hello! I'm new here and I just want to say "thank you!" I've learned so much from this website and especially the forums. I was dealing with a miscarriage last month, and on some blood work my blood sugar was found to be around 450. They called and had me return and recheck my glucose. It...

Well 2020 certainly doesn't like things straightforwars eh? Diagnosed in mid february as type 2 out of the blue, with HbA1c at 11.8%, 1 week later diagnosed as type 1.5 maybe, as c peptide level was 0.8 out of a range of 1.1-1.4 and HbA1c had climbed to 12.1%. Put on 10 units of lantus a day but...

Hi, I was told I was diabetic a few weeks ago now, given a meter to take my blood readings four times a day. The dr at the hospital initially though type 1 because I’ve lost weight (became underweight but I’d been on the heartbreak diet after I split with my partner before christmas -great!)...

Hi! It’s been 12 months now and to mark the anniversary I wrote a piece on how I handled being diagnosed as Type 1 at 8 weeks pregnant. Hope you’ll take a read and it helps if you are in a similar (of unusual) situation. Feedback welcome...

This blog post popped up on my Facebook timeline just now, and while it’s written about a type one diagnosis, there’s some points relevant to all flavours of diabetes. http://thegirlsguidetodiabetes.com/2019/07/24/diabetes-the-great-provocateur-can-make-you-better/

Hi all, I’m seeing a doctor before work tomorrow but it’s unlikely I’ll be able to have blood drawn for testing until next week. (I may take matters into my own hands and buy a kit from a chemist.) I feel convinced that I have diabetes setting in. My symptoms are (quite drastic) peripheral...

Diabetic type 2 - seriously am I diabetic type 2? Since I'm being questioned on how many times I test my blood glucose. I was told on the phone by the other person from my doctors that I was testing too much. Questioned was I on any medication for my diabetes? Then told a doctor will give me a...

Hi, 8 Months ago I was tested for diabetes as I was having frequent UTIs and was worried it was being caused by diabetes and so the doctor made me take a blood test and rang me and told me I don't have it. I am having some symptoms which could be potentially caused by diabetes, could I have got...

Hopefully.... :) Carrying on from my last post about changes after diagnosis, I went in for my first BG test and review since diagnosis of T2 in October, I was first diagnosed with a hba1c reading of 49. My results have come back with a reduced reading of 41, happy girl, woohoo! Officially...

Hi folks, I'm an atypical type 2 diabetic, and would like to get an idea how many others there are out there like me! I was diagnosed incidently at the age of 27 - my HbA1c was screened as part of an immigration medical and picked up as being elevated - 45. I'm 5ft 6in, 60kg and at that point...