5lb weight loss

Well done with your weight loss. I'm not surprised you're chuffed with that, I would be too. You have a very positive attitude towards your diabetes and that's inspiring. Several years ago when I was classed as borderline, I had all the classic symptoms including weight loss, excessive thirst etc. Then I swung in completely the opposite direction and piled the weight on but still no diagnosis until 3 months ago. I just want to go to sleep one night and wake up 5 stone lighter next morning.

mode said:

Thanks grace, for the longest time people said "omg you have put on weight" before they said hello to me. I went from size 6 to size 18 very quickly 6 months, the dns nurse explained diabetes can cause weight gain, so when the negative vibes were coming my way about the weight gain, and I was being told I have diabetes because I'm greedy and didn't know when to stop eating, I learned to stop listening and work on the facts as I know it, and change my diet and ignored the negative people, I learned a ego is a very good thing if's big enough and a cute dress to slim into is even better and control of my diabetes priceless..

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Mode ... the first thing I did when I was diagnosed was throw my arms around my GP and hug her. The poor woman is a locum at my GP practice and she hasn't known me for more than a few months but she listened to me when I told her I was at the point where I went to bed hoping I wouldn't wake up in the morning because I felt like every organ in my body was shutting down one by one. She looked at the series of health conditions I'd been diagnosed with since 2009 - and realised something serious was going on and she persisted with blood test after blood test. By that point I was literally dragging myself around and sleeping maybe 16 hours a day. And when I wasn't asleep I was eating, eating, eating but feeling awful after I ate.

Diabetes and greediness are often linked in people's minds and I even began to think of myself as greedy and felt quite guilty because of the hunger I felt even after eating a 'good' meal. When I found this forum and was given so much information which fitted exactly my symptoms and behaviour I can't tell you what a huge relief I felt because there was actually a PHYSICAL reason for my constant hunger. It made all the difference to how I responded to the diagnosis too. I'm so angry it wasn't picked up sooner because all the signs and symptoms were there and there'd been plenty of opportunity because I've been in hospital several times over the past few years with other things. But I'm glad that it's been picked up now because I can get on with doing something about it.