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<blockquote data-quote="Blackwater5" data-source="post: 2516446" data-attributes="member: 552414"><p>About a year ago )or more) I saw my GP with stomach pain. I'd lost some weight but was trying to through diet and exercise. I actually saw the doctor face to face and was told I had IBS after some tests for stomach problems. Since then I lost a lot of weight and in late Autumn was told I was a Type 2 diabetic and given lipigliptin. This gave me a rare autoimmune skin blistering disease which I hope won't return after I finish my current course of steroids. I was put on a low dose of Jardiance.</p><p>Early this year I saw a different GP as I was still losing weight and still had stomach pains. After many blood tests she orderd a CT scan which I had last week. Yesterday I was told that I had stage 4 pancreatic cancer, so I assume that the diabetes is Type 3c caused by that and I may need insulin or a different tablet for the diabetes.</p><p>But I am, although still in shock, angry that although I now know that my symptoms before the diabetes (when my BS went from normal to an HB1ac of 567 in 4 months) that if I had had the CT scan a lot earlier it could have been caught and treated. I had the main symptoms, over 60, rapid weight loss, eventually developing diabetes and so on) but anything connected with my pancrea took a very long time (a year or so) to check with either a scan or even seeing an encronologist to learn about the diabetes other than assuming it was type 2 because 18 months or so ago I was overweight.</p><p>My apologies for the rant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blackwater5, post: 2516446, member: 552414"] About a year ago )or more) I saw my GP with stomach pain. I'd lost some weight but was trying to through diet and exercise. I actually saw the doctor face to face and was told I had IBS after some tests for stomach problems. Since then I lost a lot of weight and in late Autumn was told I was a Type 2 diabetic and given lipigliptin. This gave me a rare autoimmune skin blistering disease which I hope won't return after I finish my current course of steroids. I was put on a low dose of Jardiance. Early this year I saw a different GP as I was still losing weight and still had stomach pains. After many blood tests she orderd a CT scan which I had last week. Yesterday I was told that I had stage 4 pancreatic cancer, so I assume that the diabetes is Type 3c caused by that and I may need insulin or a different tablet for the diabetes. But I am, although still in shock, angry that although I now know that my symptoms before the diabetes (when my BS went from normal to an HB1ac of 567 in 4 months) that if I had had the CT scan a lot earlier it could have been caught and treated. I had the main symptoms, over 60, rapid weight loss, eventually developing diabetes and so on) but anything connected with my pancrea took a very long time (a year or so) to check with either a scan or even seeing an encronologist to learn about the diabetes other than assuming it was type 2 because 18 months or so ago I was overweight. My apologies for the rant. [/QUOTE]
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